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The Brothers Johnson - Strawberry Letter 23

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Album: Right On Time
Released: 1977

Strawberry Letter 23 Lyrics

Hello my love, I heard a kiss from you
Red magic satin playing near, too
All through the morning rain I gaze, the sun doesn't shine
Rainbows and waterfalls run through my mind

In the garden, I see
West purple shower bells and tea
Orange birds and river cousins
Dressed in green

Pretty music, I hear
So happy and loud
Blue flowers echo
From a cherry cloud

Feel sunshine sparkle pink and blue
Playgrounds will laugh
If you try to ask
"Is it cool?"

If you arrive and don't see me
I'm going to be with my baby
I am free, flying in her arms
Over the sea

Stained window, yellow candy screen
See speakers of kite
With velvet roses diggin'
Freedom flight

A present from you
Strawberry letter 22
The music plays
I sit in for a few

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh

A present from you
Strawberry letter 22
The music plays
I sit in for a few

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh

Writer/s: SHUGGIE OTIS
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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Strawberry Letter 23

Guitar prodigy Shuggie Otis (real name: Johnny Otis Jr.) wrote this at the age of 17. Otis wrote it for his girlfriend describing the feelings evoked by "Strawberry Letter 22," the title indicating the hopes of another letter.

It is commonly believed that she wrote to him on strawberry-scented paper but Otis told Spinner in a 2013 interview that the song has nothing to do with the smell of strawberries. "What I pictured when I was writing that song, was a girl handing a guy a pink envelope," he explained. "A love letter. The guy and the girl had written each other 22 letters so far. And the 23rd one he writes is a song. But no scents."

He added: "The Brothers Johnson put out a single [of the song] and it was colored red and smelled like strawberries. Did you know that? It had a scent to it. I think that's how the whole thing got started."

Otis originally recorded this on his 1971 album Freedom Flight. It was added to the 2001 re-release of his 1974 album Inspiration Information.

Quincy Jones produced the album. The Johnson brothers first teamed up with Jones to perform on Quincy's 1975 album Mellow Madness.

This hit #1 on the R&B charts, selling over a million copies and helping the album go Platinum.

In 2002, this was used in a commercial for Kellogg's Special K Red Berries. The version in the commercial is a remixed version performed by local artists. If you re-record a song, you don't have to pay performance rights to the original artist, which is why most songs used in commercials are sound-alikes.

This appears on the soundtrack for Quentin Tarantino's 1997 movie Jackie Brown.

Tevin Campbell recorded a version of this in 1991 on his album Tevin, which was also produced by Quincy Jones. He was 13 at the time and had a hit called "Round And Round."

Senegalese-American artist Akon covered the song for the Quincy Jones tribute album, Q: Soul Bossa Nostra. Jones told MTV News: "Timbaland brought the idea. Three or four years ago, we talked about [it]. Then he said everybody should be involved in this. And one by one, in various ways, it started to be what God wanted it to be. I ran into this brother [Akon] and he picked the song I wanted him to do anyway."
Akon told MTV News regarding his cover: "The song, it's more about feeling to me 'Cause as far as the lyrical content, that's way beyond my generation. I'm still trying to understand everything it meant."
Jones agreed: "It is [opaque]. Its imagery - abstract imagery. It was abstract back then."

Al Green - Love and Happiness

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Album: I'm Still in Love with You
Released: 1972

Love and Happiness Lyrics

Love and Happiness,
Something that can make you do wrong, make you do right, love

Love and happiness
But wait a minute,
Something's going wrong
Someone's on the phone
Three o'clock in the morning
Talkin' about how she can make it right, yeah
Well, happiness is when, you really feel good with somebody
But nothing wrong with being in love with someone, yeah
Oh, baby, love and happiness
Love and happiness,
Love and happiness, oh oh

I have to say
Love and happiness (Love and happiness)
Love and happiness (Love and happiness)
You be good to me
I'll be good to you
We'll be together
We'll see each other
Walk away with victory, yeah oh baby,
Love and happiness, (Love and happiness)
Love and happiness (Love and happiness)

Hey, hey, hey, hey
Make you do right, love'll make you do wrong,
Make you come home early,
Make you stay out all night long,
The power of love

Wait a minute,
Let me tell you,
Oh the power, power of love
Power of love, power, power
Make you do right, love'll make you do wrong,
Ha yeah (Love and happiness, love and happiness)
Make you want to dance (Love and happiness, love and happiness)
Make you want to dance
Love and happiness

Love is, wait a minute, love is,
Walkin' together, talkin' together,
Say it again, say it together, yeah
Say wanna moans
Moan for love, hey
Moan for love, hmm
Moan for love
Talkin' 'bout the power

Writer/s: GEORGIO, ALLEN
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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Love and Happiness

Written by Al Green and guitarist Mabon "Teenie" Hodges, this song was first released on Green's 1972 album I'm Still in Love with You, but wasn't released as a single until 1977 when an edited version landed on the bottom end of the Soul charts at #92 and the Pop charts at #103.

This song almost didn't make it onto the album. Teenie Hodges remembered: "Usually my songs were the last ones we did. We'd do an album, they'd need one more song to finish, then we'd do my song. 'Love and Happiness' was the last song we cut for that album. We cut it live with Al, and we had a hard time getting the timing right after Al's intro into the song. On the studio version, you can hear me count off the time on a Coke crate that was near my foot."

"'Love and Happiness' was like mixing explosive chemicals," Al Green wrote in his autobiography Take Me the River. "Everything had to be added at just the right time and at just the right dose. The tempo was the most important thing to Willie [Mitchell, producer], and, if you listen close, you can hear Teenie counting off with his foot on a cardboard box for the take that nailed it."

This song was featured on several movie soundtracks, including Nine & 1/2 Weeks (1986), Menace II Society (1993), Mad Dog and Glory (1993), Love & Basketball (2000) and Madea's Family Reunion (2006). It was also used in TV series like The Wire, House, M.D. and Fringe.

This song has been covered by several artists, including Etta James, Al Jarreau, David Sanborn, Graham Central Station, Toots and the Maytals, Lee "Scratch" Perry and Living Colour.

Al Hirt - Java

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Album: Honey In The Horn
Released: 1963

Java Lyrics

Java

Popularized by Al Hirt as a trumpet piece, this instrumental was written and originally recorded by the New Orleans producer/songwriter Allen Toussaint with piano as lead instrument.

Born in 1938, Toussaint got a gig in the mid-'50s touring with the duo Shirley & Lee ("Let The Good Times Roll," #20 in 1956) on piano. He also played sessions around New Orleans, including one for Fats Domino.

With the music scene burgeoning in the city, a producer for the RCA label named Danny Kessler would audition musicians, sometimes using Toussaint or Mac Rebennack for piano accompaniment. One of these auditions took place at Cosimo Matassa's Cosimo Recording Studio, where according to Matassa, 150 musicians showed up. None of the applicants moved the needle, but Kessler was impressed with Toussaint and offered him a deal. He asked Toussaint to write some instrumental songs, and the young pianist came up with 12 tracks that Kessler produced.

These songs were released on an album called The Wild Sounds Of New Orleans, credited to "Tousan," a compact pseudonym for Toussaint. Issued on the RCA Victor label in 1958, the album didn't get much attention, but in 1962 Floyd Cramer covered one of the tracks: "Java." His piano version went to #49 US, and the following year the song got the attention of Al Hirt, whose trumpet rendition running 1:55 went to #4.

Even before Hirt's hit cover, Toussaint's career was taking off. He got a job as staff producer at the Instant and Minit labels in 1959, where he wrote and produced the Ernie K-Doe #1 "Mother-In-Law" and Chris Kenner's "I Like It Like That (Part 1)."

"Java" was not named after a cup of coffee or the programming language (which didn't exist yet), but a racehorse. Producer Danny Kessler named each track on the The Wild Sounds Of New Orleans after a racehorse, since he was a frequent visitor to the track.

Allen Toussaint isn't the only composer listed on this song. Also on the writing credits are Alvin Tyler, Marilyn Schack and Freddy Friday.

Alvin "Red" Tyler played baritone sax at the session, but the other names are pseudonyms. "Marilyn Schack" is Danny Kessler; "Freddy Friday" is Kessler's partner, Murray Sporn, who was then a veteran music publisher and who with Kessler found the talent for those sessions. Sporn and Kessler co-authored several of the compositions from that session.

The song's writer Allen Toussaint was serving a two-year stint in the Army when it became a hit for Al Hirt. Toussaint didn't know Hirt had recorded it, and was surprised to hear it one day playing in the barracks. He had a hard time convincing his fellow troops that he wrote it.

The first single from Honey In The Horn, this became Hirt's biggest hit and by far his best-known song. Like the Tousan album where "Java" first appeared, Hirt's album was issued by RCA Victor. Two more hits followed for the trumpeter: "Cotton Candy" (#15) and "Sugar Lips" (#30). Both were instrumentals that hit in 1964.

Al Hirt was nicknamed "The Monster" because he was 6' 2", 300 lb. When he performed the song on the Ed Sullivan Show, he did some light choreography, swaying his prodigious frame back-and-forth with his backup dancers while blowing his horn.

This wouldn't be the last time a song originally recorded by Allen Toussaint became a hit for another artist. In 1977, Glen Campbell had a #1 with "Southern Nights," which Toussaint had recorded two years earlier.

Al Green - Full of Fire

Al Green - Full of Fire Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Full of Fire
Released: 1976

Full of Fire Lyrics

I'm Full of Fire (full of fire, full of fire)
You're my one desire,
Baby I'm full of fire (full of fire, full of fire)
You can make me cry,
I can dance to the music,
I can sing, all night long
I can play with the band, until you hear my song

Cause I'm full of fire (full of fire, full of fire)
See the party lights,
Baby I'm full of fire (full of fire, full of fire)
Its the reason why,
I can dance with the fire,
Burnin', burnin' low,
I can stay until the party is all over

Baby I'm full of fire (full of fire, full of fire)
I'm over a twenty one,
Baby I'm full of fire (full of fire full of fire)
Life has just begun,
Oh, oh I can dance to the music,
I, I can under, understand
That there must be an upper power that is holding my hand
Dance, dance, dance

Oh I understand,
Young lady, young man, I say I understand,

Baby I'm full of fire (full of fire, full of fire)
I'm over a twenty one,
Baby I'm full of fire (full of fire full of fire)
Life has just begun,
Oh, oh I can dance to the music,
I, I can under, understand
That there must be an upper power that is holding my hand
Dance, dance, dance

Oh I understand,
Young lady, young man, I say I understand,

I can dance dance, dance, dance,
I understand, understand, understand
There's some things that may not know,
But I want the horn to blow,
There's some things that I know,
But I want the horn to blow,
I can dance dance, dance, dance,
I understand, understand, understand
There's some things that may not know,
But I want the horn to blow,
I can dance
Let me say that I can dance
Full of fire, my heart's desire
Full of fire

Writer/s: GREEN, AL L. / MITCHELL, WILLIE / HODGES, MABON
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Full of Fire

Written by Al Green, producer Willie Mitchell and guitarist Mabon "Teenie" Hodges, this was the last of six #1 R&B hits for Green.

While his own studio was crowded with other artists, Mitchell was forced to record this Disco-flavored tune in not one, but two different studios. "I recorded part of it in Vegas and part of it in Chicago," he remembered. "The sound changed... because it was a different studio."

This song marks the beginning of the end in Green and Mitchell's partnership. After one more album in 1976, Have a Good Time (and the hit "Keep Me Cryin'") Green became a self-produced Gospel singer and the pair didn't work together again until 1985 for Green's He Is the Light album.

Paul Anka - Puppy Love

Paul Anka - Puppy Love Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Paul Anka Sings His Big 15
Released: 1960

Puppy Love Lyrics

And they called it Puppy Love
Oh I guess they'll never know
How a young heart how it really feels
And why I love her so

And they called it puppy love
Just because we're seventeen
Tell them all
Oh please tell them it isn't fair
To take away my only dream

I cry each night
It's tears for you
My tears are all in vain
I hope I hope and I pray
That maybe someday
You'll be back (you'll be back) in my arms (in my arms)
Once again

Someone help me
Help me please
Is the answer, is it up above?
How can I
Oh how can I ever tell them?
This is not a puppy love
(This is not a puppy love)

Someone help me
Help me please
Is the answer up above?
How can I
Oh how can I tell them?
This is not a puppy love
(This is not a puppy love)

Writer/s: DUPRI, JERMAINE/CASEY, BRANDON D/CASEY, BRIAN D / COX, BRYAN MICHAEL PAUL/ERVING, BOBBY/SMITH, JAMES TODD
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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Puppy Love

Paul Anka wrote this song about Annette Funicello, with whom Anka was having an affair during a package tour. Anka's manager insisted that the affair be low-key and kept out of the press, if possible.

Funicello was an actress who, like Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera and Justin Timberlake, was a very popular member of Disney's Mickey Mouse Club. She wasn't allowed to date until she turned 16; she and Anka got together when both were 17. Adults dismissed their affair as "puppy love," but to the couple it felt very strong and inspired Anka to write the song. In her autobiography, Funicello wrote: "Just because we were 17 didn't mean that, for us, our love wasn't real."

The puppy love didn't last, but Funicello did cut an album of Anka's songs called Annette Sings Anka, which was also released in 1960. In 1992, she announced that she had Multiple Sclerosis, and when she passed away from the disease on April 8, 2013 at the age of 70, Anka stated: "She was kind and intelligent and she will be missed by her family and her wide circle of friends, in which I was lucky to be included."

Donny Osmond had a hit with this song in 1972 - his version topped the UK charts and peaked at #3 in the US. What sold the record was the teen idol's supercharged emotion on the line, "Someone help me, help me, help me please." Donny recalled, "(Producer) Mike Curb told me to give it my all on 'Puppy Love,' so I suppose it worked."

This is one of the more innocent songs ever recorded, but in 1986 when Donny Osmond appeared on a panel to discuss censorship in music, he used it to make the point that obscenity is in the ear of the beholder. Said Osmond: "What's the difference between me recording a song with sexual connotations and the way someone else may record it? I could get away with murder. Look at 'Puppy Love,' my biggest record. It can be a very filthy song."

After KHJ Los Angeles deejay Robert W. Morgan had spun Donny Osmond's version of the song over and over for 90 continuous minutes on his March 15, 1972 show, worried listeners summoned the local police. The LAPD broke into the studio, convinced that hippies or anarchists had taken it over. However, it turned out it was just a publicity stunt and the perplexed officers left without making any arrests.

Radio Stars - Sitting in the Rain

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Album: Holiday Album
Released: 1978

Sitting in the Rain Lyrics

Sitting in the Rain

"Sitting in the Rain" is a parody of overly-sentimental breakup songs ("My mind has ceased to function, I'm supporting its dead weight. My stomach needs its luncheon, but I fear it's just too late") and features Paul Jones of Manfred Mann on harmonica.

In our interview with Radio Stars bassist and songwriter, Martin Gordon, he revealed he had a "soft spot" for "Sitting in the Rain" even though Radio Stars chose not to perform it live: "We performed it once or twice live but it's a fairly minor-keyed piece, and it didn't really work. As we were always keenly pursuing added value, it was unceremoniously dropped from the set."

This song appears on Radio Stars' second album, Holiday Album, which saw the band experiment with a grandiose Pop sound in comparison to their more Punk-orientated debut, Songs for Swinging Lovers. Radio Stars met their demise in 1979 not long after the album was released, mainly owing to a lack of interest, although the original lineup have performed together at several reunion concerts since then.

Billy Swan - I Can Help

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Album: I Can Help
Released: 1974

I Can Help Lyrics

If you've got a problem, I don't care what it is
If you need a hand, I can assure you this
I Can Help, I've got two strong arms, I can help
It would sure do me good to do you good
Let me help

It's a fact that people get lonely, ain't nothing new
But a woman like you, baby, should never have the blues
Let me help, I've got two for me, let me help
It would sure do me good to do you good
Let me help

When I go to sleep at night, you're always a part of my dream
Holding me tight and telling me everything I want to hear
Don't forget me, baby, all you gotta do is call
You know how I feel about you, if I can do anything at all
Let me help, if your child needs a daddy, I can help
It would sure do me good to do you good, let me help

When I go to sleep at night, you're always a part of my dream
Holding me tight and telling me everything I want to hear
Don't forget me, baby, all you gotta do is call
You know how I feel about you, if I can do anything at all
Let me help, if your child needs a daddy, I can help
Writer/s: Swan, Billy
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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I Can Help

Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge brought Billy Swan a little RMI organ as a wedding present. Billy was fiddling around with it when the chorus "I can help" appeared and within a few minutes he had written the lyrics. (thanks, Edward Pearce - Ashford, Kent, England)

Swan often took his medium-sized dog to his recording sessions. While Swan was recording "I Can Help," the dog became playful and started tugging at Swan's pant leg. He finished the take - and earned the applause from the band mates that is heard at the end of the released song.

Swan wrote Clyde McPhatter's 1962 hit "Lover Please." He went on to write some popular Country songs, but this was his only hit as an artist. (thanks, Brad Wind - Miami, FL, for above 2)

Black Men United - U Will Know

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Album: Hed Kandi: Back to Love 03.04
Released: 1994

U Will Know Lyrics

Mmm...hmm...hmm...mmm...hmm...
Yeah, yeah

When I was a young boy
I had visions of fame
They were wild and they were free
They were blessed with my name

And then I grew older
And I saw what’s to see
That the world is full of pain
And my dreams they left me

And then I got stronger
Inside of the pain
That’s when I picked up the pieces
And I regained my name

And I fought hard, y’all
To call by my place
And right now you could ask me
And it all seems in vain

[Your dreams ain’t easy] Your dreams ain’t easy
[You just stick by your plan] You just stick by your plan
[Go from boys to men] Go from boys to men
[You must act like a man] You gotta act like a man
[When it gets hard, y’all] When it gets hard, y’all
[You just grab what you know] Got what you know
[Stand up tall and don’t you fall] And my background sing

YoU Will Know [You will know], yeah...eah...
[You will know]
[You will know] You will know, you will know
[You will know]

And I know you’re cryin’
‘Cause it’s all in his vein
And the things you want you can’t have
It just all went away

But life ain’t over
Hoo...hoo...
Just grab the winds and make demands
And the vibe will take you far

[Your dreams ain’t easy] Your dreams ain’t easy
[You just stick by your plan] Stick by your plan, boy
[Go from boys to men] Go from boys to men
[You must act like a man] I know it ain’t easy
[When it gets hard, y’all] it gets hard sometime
[You just grab what you know] Yes, it does
[Stand up tall and don’t you fall] Stand up tall, don’t you fall, and you will know, yeah

[You will know]
[You will know] Ah...ah...ah... (You will know)
[You will know] Hey, there’s no doubt about it
[You will know] Hey, you will know

[You will know] You will know
[You will know] Hey...ey...hey...
[You will know] You will know, yeah
[Oh, you will know] Hey...

[Your dreams ain’t easy] Your dreams ain’t easy
[You just stick by your plan] Stick by your plans
[Go from boys to men] Boys to men
[You must act like a man] You must act like a man
[When it gets hard, y’all] It ain’t hard, yeah
[You just grab what you know] Grab what you know
[Stand up tall and don’t you fall] Oh...oh...oh...

[Your dreams ain’t easy]
[You just stick by your plan] Hey...hey...yeah
[Go from boys to men] Boys to men
[You must act like a man] I know it ain’t easy
[When it gets hard, y’all]
[You just grab what you know] Yeah...
[Stand up tall and don’t you fall] Come on D and sing this song

[You will know] Yeah...
[You will know] You will know
[You will know]
[You will know] Hey...

[You will know]
[You will know]
[You will know]
[Oh, you will know]

Writer/s: ARCHER, MICHAEL D'ANGELO / ARCHER, LUTHER
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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U Will Know

Black Men United was a supergroup of R&B artists. The people involved included D'Angelo, Brian McKnight, R. Kelly, Boyz II Men, El DeBarge and a very young Usher. This was their sole release, which featured on the soundtrack of the Forest Whitaker movie Jason's Lyric.

The tune was written by a young D'Angelo along with his brother Luther. "That song really is what got me my deal [with EMI]," he revealed during a lecture, titled 'A Conversation with D'Angelo,' at Brooklyn Museum on May 21, 2014. "It was on my first demo. Jocelyn [Cooper, former president of Midnight Music] shopped it. I think that was the one. It was the one."

"It was my first demo, and I had this whole process with signing [with a record label]," he continued. "Just the direction I was going in was different, and so it was a perfect fit. And Jocelyn, being the great publisher that she his, placed it for the movie. And it was like wow. The only thing I had done [at that point] was this song called 'Overjoyed' for the Harlem Boys Choir. So here I am with all my heroes." (Source of quote The Boombox )

The Clash - The Right Profile

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Album: London Calling
Released: 1979

The Right Profile Lyrics

Say, where did I see this guy?
In 'Red River'?
Or a 'Place In The Sun'?
Maybe 'The Misfits'?
Or 'From Here to Eternity'?

And everybody say, "Is he all right?"
And everybody say, "What's he like?"
And everybody say, "He sure look funny"
That's Montgomery Clift, honey!

New York, New York, 42nd Street
Hustlers rustle and pimps pimp the beat
Monty Clift is recognized at dawn
He ain't got no shoes and his clothes are torn

And everybody say, "Is he all right?"
And everybody say, "What's he like?"
And everybody say, "He sure look funny"
That's that Montgomery Clift, honey!

I see a car smashed at night
Cut the applause and dim the light
Monty's face is broken on a wheel
Is he alive? Can he still feel?

And everybody say, "Is he all right?"
And everybody say, "Shine a light"
And everybody say, "It's not funny"
That's Montgomery Clift, honey!

Shoot his right profile

And everybody say, "Is he all right?"
And everybody say, "What's he like?"
And everybody say, "He sure look funny"
That's Montgomery Clift, honey!

Nembutol, numbs it all
But I prefer alcohol

And everybody say, "What's he like?"
And everybody say, "Is he all right?"
And everybody say, "He sure look funny"
That's Montgomery Clift, honey!

He said go out and get me my old movie stills
Go out and get me another roll of pills
There I go again shaking, but I ain't got the chills

ARRRGHHHGORRA BUH BHUH DO ARRRRGGGGHHHHNNNN!!!!

And everybody say, "What's he like?"
And everybody say, "Is he all right?"
And everybody say, "He sure look funny"
That's Montgomery Clift, honey!

Writer/s: STRUMMER, JOE / JONES, MICK / SIMONON, PAUL / HEADON, TOPPER
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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The Right Profile

"The Right Profile" is about actor Montgomery Clift (A Place in the Sun, From Here to Eternity) and his troubled life. Clift had problems with pills and alcohol. The car crash into a tree discussed in this song occurred in 1956, while he was driving home from a party at Elizabeth Taylor's house. She saved his life then, but he died in 1966 of coronary occlusion, what some have called the "slowest suicide" in cinema history.

London Calling producer Guy Stevens had lent singer Joe Strummer a copy of Patricia Bosworth's 1978 biography of Clift, and suggested that perhaps Strummer write a song about him. With Stevens also suffering from alcohol and drug problems, perhaps Strummer saw parallels between Clift and The Clash's troubled producer? Roadie Johnny Green suggested that this was the case in his memoirs.

After Clift's car accident, his face was mangled and he needed plastic surgery for a broken jaw. He continued to make movies, but had to be shot from "The Right Profile" to look good, hence the name of the song.

Clift has been the subject of other songs as well, including R.E.M.'s "Monty Got a Raw Deal" from their 1992 album, Automatic for the People.

An the album cover is a photo of Clash bass player Paul Simonon smashing his instrument during a show at The Palladium in New York City. He later regretted doing it, because it was his best bass. The smashed bass is now in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Musically "The Right Profile" is one of the highlights of the London Calling album, featuring heavy usage of the Irish Horns to create a swing feel. Sadly this also proved to be the song's performance downfall, as unlike other horn-heavy songs on the album (such as "Revolution Rock" and "Rudie Can't Fail"), there was no way it could be played live without the horn section.

Bob Dylan - Dark Eyes

Bob Dylan - Dark Eyes Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Empire Burlesque
Released: 1985

Dark Eyes Lyrics

Oh, the gentlemen are talking and the midnight moon is on the riverside
They're drinking up and walking and it is time for me to slide
I live in another world where life and death are memorized
Where the earth is strung with lover's pearls and all I see are Dark Eyes.

A cock is crowing far away and another soldier's deep in prayer
Some mother's child has gone astray, she can't find him anywhere
But I hear another rum beating for the dead that rise
Whom nature's beast fear as they come and all I see are dark eyes.

They tell me to be discreet for all intended purposes
They tell me revenge is sweet, I'm sure it is
But I feel nothing for their game, where beauty goes unrecognized
All I feel is heat and flame, and all I see are dark eyes.

Oh, the French girl, she's in paradise and a drunken man is at the wheel
Hunger pays a heavy prize to the falling god of speed and steel
Oh, time is short and the days are sweet and passion rules the arrow that flies
A million faces at my feet but all I see are dark eyes.

Writer/s: BOB DYLAN
Publisher: BOB DYLAN MUSIC CO
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Dark Eyes

Dylan laid this down this tune on March 3, 1985 as the final track for his Empire Burlesque album. Recorded live-to-tape with no video editing, overdubbing, or embellishment, the song features just Dylan on guitar and harmonica.

The disturbing, forlorn tune was written by Dylan virtually on demand when producer Arthur Baker suggested something simpler for the album's closing track. Baker recalled to Uncut magazine: "I mentioned this idea about doing an acoustic song to him, and then the very next day, he came in with this 'Dark Eyes.' I really thought it was a song he'd had. Because he had so many songs, he'd bring cassettes out, and he had just tons of songs. I never thought for a second that he'd just written this."

Bob Dylan - Political World

Bob Dylan - Political World Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Oh Mercy
Released: 1989

Political World Lyrics

We live in a Political World
Love don't have any place
We're living in times
Where men commit crimes
And crime don't have any face

We live in a political world
Icicles hanging own
Wedding bells ring
And angels sing
And clouds cover up the ground

We live in a political world
Wisdom is thrown in jail
It rots in a cell
Is misguided as hell
Leaving no one to pick up the trail

We live in a political world
Where mercy walks the plank
Life is in mirrors
Death disappears
Up the steps to the nearest bank

We live in a political world
Courage is a thing of the past
Houses are haunted
Children unwanted
The next day could be your last

We live in a political world
The one we can see and feel
But there's no one to check
It's all a stacked deck
We all know for sure that it's real

We live in a political world
In the cities of lonesome fear
Little by little
You turn in the middle
But you're never sure why you're here

We live in a political world
Under the microscope
You can travel anywhere
And hang yourself there
You always got more than enough rope

We live in a political world
Turning and trashing about
As soon as you're awake
You're trained to take
What looks like the easy way out

We live in a political world
Where peace is not welcome at all
It's turned away from the door
To wonder some more
Or put up against the wall

We live in a political world
Everything is hers and his
Climb into the frame
And shout God's name
But you're never sure what it is

Writer/s: BOB DYLAN
Publisher: BOB DYLAN MUSIC CO
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Political World

Bob Dylan was struggling to come up with the right arrangement for this tirade against the modern world when producer Daniel Lanois came up with a setting that he thought could make the song work. Guitarist Brian Stolz recalled to Uncut magazine: "Dan had an idea for a little groove, kind of a funkier groove. I remember we ran through it a few times before Bob got there. Bob came walking in the room when we were playing. He said, ''What's that?' Dan said, 'It's a little something we're working up for 'Political World.' And Bob said, 'Political World'? It doesn't go like that! It goes like this.'"

"He picked up a guitar and started playing it and we all jumped in – and my memory is that's the track you hear on the record," Stolz added. "If you listen to 'Political World' you can hear how Willie (Green, drums) doesn't even come in with the beat because he was jumping in after Bob."

The song featured on the soundtrack of the 2006 Robin Williams movie, Man of the Year.

Blue Öyster Cult - Astronomy

Blue Öyster Cult - Astronomy Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Secret Treaties
Released: 1974

Astronomy Lyrics

Clock strikes twelve and moondrops burst
Out at you from their hiding place
Like acid and oil on a madman?s face
His reason tends to fly away
Like lesser birds on the four winds
Like silver scrapes in May
And now the sands become a crust
Most of you have gone away

Come Susie dear, let?s take a walk
Just out there upon the beach
I know you?ll soon be married
And you?ll want to know where winds come from
Well it?s never said at all
On that map that Carrie reads
Behind the clock back there you know
At the Four Winds Bar

Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!
Four winds at the Four Winds Bar
Two doors bought and windows barred
One door to let to take you in
The other one just mirrors it

Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!
Hellish glare and inference
The other one?s a duplicate
The Queenly flux, eternal light
Or the light that never warms
Yes, the light that never, never warms
Or the light that never
Never warms
Never warms
Never warms

The clock strikes twelve and moondrops burst
Out at you from their hiding place
Miss Carrie nurse and Susie dear
Would find themselves at the Four Winds Bar

It?s the nexus of the crisis
And the origin of storms
Just the place to hopelessly
Encounter time and then came me

Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!

Call me Desdinova
Eternal light
These gravely digs of mine
Will surely prove a sight
And don?t forget my dog
Fixed and consequent

Astronomy
A star
Astronomy
A star
Astronomy
A star
Astronomy
A star

Writer/s: PEARLMAN, SAMUEL / BOUCHARD, ALBERT / BOUCHARD, JOSEPH
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Astronomy

Sometimes rumored to be about a girl's first lesbian encounter, the lyrics to "Astronomy" were written by the group's producer - the former music journalist Sandy Pearlman. Secret Treaties began as a concept album based on the character Desdanova, who appears in "Astronomy." You can spend a lot of time with headphones on trying to figure out what's going on in this song, but Pearlman explained it when he spoke with NME in 1975. We should point out that the British press loved the Secret Treaties album, giving it great reviews, but attempts to interview the band during this period were dominated by Pearlman, who did most of the talking, often to the bewilderment of the journalists. Anyway, here's what he said about the song: "It's New Year's Eve and Desdanova walks into the Four Winds Bar (which was a real place - an actual joint on Atlantic Beach). He plays this game with two girls which has to be completed in the six hours from midnight to dawn 'cause he can't stand the light. It's so sort of... corrosive. There's a parallel with the rose which is similarly over-fulfilled, a symbol of over-ripeness and decadence. The dog is Susy's familiar and the carrier of starry wisdom from the actual dogstar. Lovecraft had this term 'starry wisdom cult' which was so apt I had to use it."

Blue Öyster Cult recorded a new version of "Astronomy" for their 1988 concept album Imaginos, which was based on Pearlman's poem "The Soft Doctrines Of Imaginos." The concept is that Imaginos is born in 1804 and given superhuman powers. He can take on various identities and time travel, and he plays a part in events leading up to World War I where the story ends.

The 1988 version of the song contains a spoken intro by the author Stephen King, who explains the Imaginos concept. This version was made into a video as well.

Metallica recorded the song for their 1998 album Garage Inc.