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Hot Chocolate - You Sexy Thing

Hot Chocolate - You Sexy Thing Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Hot Chocolate
Released: 1975

You Sexy Thing Lyrics

I believe in miracles
Where you from
You Sexy Thing
I believe in miracles
Since you came along
You sexy thing

Where did you come from, baby?
How did you know I needed you?
How did you know I needed you so badly?
How did you know I'd give my heart gladly?
Yesterday I was one of the lonely people
Now you're lying close to me, making love to me

I believe in miracles
Where you from, you sexy thing? (Sexy thing, you)
I believe in miracles
Since you came along, you sexy thing

Where did you come from, angel?
How did you know I'd be the one?
Did you know you're everything I prayed for?
Did you know, every night and day for?
Every day, needing love and satisfaction
Now you're lying next to me, giving it to me

I believe in miracles
Where you from, you sexy thing? (Sexy thing, you)
I believe in miracles
Since you came along, you sexy thing

Oh, kiss me, you sexy thing
Touch me baby, you sexy thing
I love the way you touch me, darling, you sexy thing
Oh, it's ecstasy, you sexy thing

Yesterday I was one of the lonely people
Now you're lying close to me, giving it to me

I believe in miracles
Where you from, you sexy thing? (Sexy thing, you)
I believe in miracles
Since you came along, you sexy thing

Oh, touch me
Kiss me, darling
I love the way you hold me, baby
Oh, it's ecstasy

Oh, it's ecstasy (Sexy thing, you sexy thing, you)
Kiss me, baby (Sexy thing, you sexy thing, you)
I love the way you kiss me, darling (Sexy thing, you sexy thing, you)
Oh, yeah (Sexy thing, you sexy thing, you)
Love the way you hold me (Sexy thing, you sexy thing, you)
Keep on lovin' me, darling (Sexy thing, you sexy thing, you)
Keep on lovin' me, baby (Sexy thing, you sexy thing, you)

Writer/s: WILSON, BROWN
Publisher: MUSIC & MEDIA INT'L, INC.
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You Sexy Thing

Lead singer Errol Brown wrote this about his wife Ginette. It was the first happy song he wrote - he had always written sad songs before.

Errol Brown, who came to England from Jamaica with his mother when he was young, formed Hot Chocolate in London with Tony Wilson in 1969. They recorded a Reggae version of "Give Peace A Chance" that got the attention of John Lennon, who released the single on The Beatles' Apple Records. This led to a deal with Mickie Most, who signed them to his RAK label. The pair wrote "Bet Yer Life I Do," which was recorded by Herman's Hermits and hit UK #22. They had their first UK hit of their own with "Love Is Life," then went on to a string of UK hits, including a #1 in 1977 with "So You Win Again."

Hot Chocolate were produced by Mickie Most, who released this track on his RAK Records label. Most, however, didn't see the hit potential in this song and put it out as the B-side of a ballad called "Blue Night." That same week, Most produced a song for his band The Arrows called "I Love Rock And Roll," and released that as the B-side of their song "Broken Down Heart." In our interview with Alan Merrill of The Arrows, he explained that Most was in his "blue period" (an allusion to Pablo Picasso), and was really into ballads. "You Sexy Thing" turned out to be a huge hit, but "I Love Rock And Roll" would have to wait 7 years to realize its potential when Joan Jett took the song to #1. (Check out our interview with Alan Merrill .)

This was one of two songs to make the UK Top 10 in the 1970s, '80s and '90s. The other one to do so was John Lennon's "Imagine."

This was featured in the 1997 movie The Full Monty. The song became popular once again and was re-released in the UK, where it went to #6. This was the third time it cracked the UK Top 10 - a 1987 remix by Ben Liebrand hit #10.

This was a hit in over 50 countries. In the UK it sold over a million copies but stalled at #2 behind "Bohemian Rhapsody" for six weeks.

In 2005, this was used in commercials for Dr. Pepper soda. In 2014, it was featured in a Super Bowl commercial for Chevy Silverado trucks. In the spot, which was narrated by John Cusack, a rodeo bull is put out to stud to the sounds of this song.

Brantley Gilbert - Bottoms Up

Brantley Gilbert - Bottoms Up Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Just as I Am
Released: 2014

Bottoms Up Lyrics

I see you and me riding like Bonnie and Clyde
Goin' 95 burning down 129 yeah
Looking for the law, while I push my luck
She's ridin' shotgun like it ain't no thing
Turn the radio up so the girl can sing right
Pull into the party like "y'all wassup"
Tonight is Bottoms Up up
Throw it on down
Rock this quiet, little country town
Get up, drop a tailgate on ya truck
Find a keg and fill ya cup up
Kick it on back
Pretty little mama lookin' at ya like that
Make ya wanna slide on in like "Girl, what’s up"
Yeah tonight is bottoms up up up
Get em up
Tonight is bottoms up up up
Get em up
Damn girl I gotta tip my hat
Never thought a country song would make you move like that yeah
And she's doing it in daisy dukes
Girl she's got ya tappin' on a boys shoulder
Hey dog check this out
And that's how girl do it in the dirty south yeah
She'll have you on your knee "can I marry you?"

Yeah tonight is bottoms up
Throw it on down
Rock this quiet, little country town
Get up, drop a tailgate on ya truck
Find a keg and fill ya cup up
Kick it on back
Pretty little mama lookin' at ya like that
Make ya wanna slide on in like "Girl, what’s up"
Yeah tonight is bottoms up up up
Get em up
Tonight is bottoms up up up
Get em up get em up get em up

Get em up

Hey y'all whatever ya sippin' get it up in the air one time
Bottoms up

Let’s give a toast to the good times
All y’all get your drinks up high
Everybody feelin' alright
Damn right
'Cause tonight it’s bottoms up
Throw it on down
Rock this quiet, little country town
Get up, drop a tailgate on ya truck
Find a keg and fill ya cup up
Kick it on back
Pretty little mama lookin' at ya like that
Make ya wanna slide on in like "Girl, what’s up"

Tonight is bottoms up up
Throw it on down
Rock this quiet, little country town
Get up, drop a tailgate on ya truck
Find a keg and fill ya cup up
Kick it on back
Pretty little mama lookin' at ya like that
Make ya wanna slide on in like "Girl, what’s up"
Yeah tonight is bottoms up up up
Get em up
Tonight is bottoms up up up
Get em up

Writer/s: GILBERT, BRANTLEY KEITH / JAMES, BRETT / WEAVER, JUSTIN MICHAEL
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., WARNER CHAPPELL MUSIC INC, ATLAS MUSIC PUBLISHING
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Bottoms Up

Brantley Gilbert's first new song for three years finds Country's bad boy having a good time as he fills his cup from a keg and hooks up with a "pretty little mama."

The phrase "Bottoms Up" is a call to drain one's glass, so that the bottom is uppermost. The drinking toast is of British naval origin.

The prohibition-themed music video features Gilbert and his crew decked out in vintage duds preparing to party as they load up a vintage car with moonshine. "The video was a lot of fun to shoot," Gilbert said. "We had an absolute blast. I'm a huge fan of the Prohibition Era. There were outlaws around, real outlaws. [The video] tells a cool story and I think the band and I and everyone involved had a good time. So, we're proud of it."

This was Brantley Gilbert's third #1 on Hot Country Songs following "Country Must Be Country Wide" and "You Don't Know Her Like I Do."

This was named by TouchTunes, the largest in-venue interactive entertainment network in North America, as the most-played song on jukeboxes in 2014. Katy Perry's "Dark Horse" came second on their list and Pharrell Williams' "Happy" third.

Despite penning the boozy, party-hardy lyrics, Gilbert has been sober since late-2011. When asked why he still writes songs about drinking if he's sworn off alcohol, he replied: "Cause when I drank, I drank 10 times more than the majority of people drink in 10 lifetimes. I earned my stripes. I can sing drinking songs for the rest of my life if I want to."

The 2015 platinum edition of Just As I Am includes a T.I. remix of this song. Though it might raise eyebrows among country purists, Gilbert told Billboard magazine he didn't intend the collaboration to be controversial, "I didn't do it to piss anybody off or stir the water or give [ammunition to] the people that are on a power trip about the 'country and rap is crap' stuff," he said.

"That song was already outside of the box," Gilbert added, "so why not spice it up just a little bit and add a little bit of fun?"

Sam & Dave - Soul Man

Sam & Dave - Soul Man Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Soul Man
Released: 1967

Soul Man Lyrics

Soul Man
Sam and Dave
Coming to you, on a dusty road
Good loving, I got a truck load
And when you get it, you got something
Don't worry, 'cause I'm coming
I'm a soul man
Got what I got, the hard way
And I'll got make better, each and every day
So honey, I said don't you fret
'Cause you ain't seen nothing yet
Well grab the rope, and I'll pull you in
Give you hope, and be your only boyfriend ya (ya ya ya) help!

Writer/s: HAYES, ISAAC/PORTER, DAVID
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Soul Man

This was released on Stax Records, a legendary soul label where Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett and Isaac Hayes recorded. It was written and produced by Hayes and David Porter, and the Stax house band of Booker T. & the MG's played the instruments, except for Booker himself who was away at college, which is why Hayes was brought in to Stax.

Isaac Hayes talked about this song in an interview with National Public Radio: "I got the idea from watching on TV the riots in Detroit. It was said that if you put 'Soul' on the door of your business establishment, they wouldn't burn it. Then the word 'Soul,' it was a galvanizing kind of thing for African Americans, and it had an effect of unity, it was said with a lot of pride. So I thought, 'Why not write a tune called 'Soul Man.' And all you had to do was write about your personal experiences, because all African Americans in this country at the time had similar experiences. But we realized that in addition to being an African American experience, it was a human experience, and therefore it crossed over and became very commercial."

When this song was written, there was no clear definition of a "Soul Man." After Isaac Hayes came up with the title, David Porter wrote the rest of the lyric based on what he thought a Soul Man would be. To Porter, he was:

Rural: "Comin' to ya on a dusty road."

Hardscrabble: "Got what I got the hard way."

A great lover: "I learned how to love before I could eat."

Monogamous: "Give you hope and be your only boyfriend."

Describing this guy, Porter said: "He didn't have the fancy big-city slant, but had the emotional thing happening inside of him that made people really love him."

Interestingly, Porter's co-writer Isaac Hayes would exemplify a new, funky soul when he wrote the theme to the movie Shaft. This Soul Man is a bad mother...

Isaac Hayes wanted the record to have rhythmic elements similar to Bo Diddley's song "Bo Diddley," and Porter asked singer Sam Moore to give him "the Bobby Bland squall."

The Soul Man was "educated at Woodstock" (sometimes misheard as "educated from good stock"). This was two years before the famous festival; David Porter chose the name "Woodstock" to envision a school out in the sticks. "The word denoted a school that was out in the forest somewhere and they couldn't come up with the name for the school," he said. "Trees were cut down the school was made, and they called it Woodstock."

Sam & Dave were Sam Moore and Dave Prater. Moore was in The Melionaires Gospel group, and Prater who was solo artist before they met in 1961. They were signed by Roulette in 1962 and switched to Atlantic in 1965 before recording for Stax. In 1988 Prater was killed in a car crash. They were inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame in 1992.

At the 1:15 mark, you can hear guitarist Steve Cropper play four notes that elicit the reply from Sam Moore: "Play it, Steve!" This was spontaneous, and done in one take.

Cropper recalled to Uncut in 2015: "Sam said ' Play it, Steve!' only one time, on one take, which happened to be the best take, so we used that. I didn't think about it at the time. We didn't know it was going to make history."

The Stax studio where they recorded the song was a converted theater, and a bastion of creative energy. Cropper's guitar lick came after producer Isaac Hayes asked him for an Elmore James sounding slide part. Cropper used a Zippo lighter as a slide and got those famous notes.

This won the 1967 Grammy for Best Rhythm And Blues Group Performance. It was just the second year the award was given out.

The Blues Brothers released this as their first single in 1979. It hit #14 in the US, and helped establish the duo as a legitimate musical act. The Blues Brothers were Saturday Night Live comedians John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, and they turned their skit on the show into a movie and tour. Their backing musicians included Paul Shaffer from Late Night With David Letterman as well as Steve Cropper and Donald "Duck" Dunn, who were members of Booker T. And The MG's. Belushi and Aykroyd studied Sam & Dave to get their stage moves.

Giving his thoughts on the Blues Brothers version of this song, Sam Moore said: "I'd say they were good comedians. I looked at it the way you look at the Coasters. It was a parody from a comedy team."

When Bob Dole ran for president of the United States in 1996, he used this song, repurposed as "Dole Man," as his campaign song until he was sued by the copyright holders of the song.

Sam Moore re-recorded this with Lou Reed as the theme to the 1986 film of the same name. The movie is about a white guy who pretends to be black so he can get a scholarship to Harvard; hijinks ensue when he gets picked to play basketball and turns out to be terrible. Reed and Moore performed the song on Saturday Night Live on November 15, 1986.

Bridget Kelly - Special Delivery

Bridget Kelly - Special Delivery Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Cut To…Bridget Kelly
Released: 2013

Special Delivery Lyrics

Wrote him a goodbye letter today
With conviction in every stroke
Licked the envelope and sent it away
Wanted to do it the old fashioned way
Didn't want no text or tweeting
Wanted him to feel every word that I say

Boy I hope these tears I cry
On the paper don't dry
Before it make it to your side
I want you to know what it feels like
When your heart is done I'm so tired
I hope when he reads these words
This hurt I feel bleeds through
Before the ink dry
I want you to know what it feels like
When your heart is done
I'm so tired
So I need you to
Hurry hurry please Mr. Mailman
Overnight it if you can
I need you to feel me,feel me
This is a Special Delivery
Hurry hurry now before I take it back
Before he cleans up his act
I need you to feel me,feel me
This is a special delivery
Got me saying oh, special delivery
This is a special delivery

Funny how words take a life on their own
When you said you love me
That's what I believed
But I was so wrong baby
Boy in your arms I never felt more alone
But now that I got me back
Got my heart on track
I'm moving on

Boy I hope these tears I cry
On the paper don't dry
Before it make it to your side
I want you to know what it feels like
When your heart is done I'm so tired
I hope when he reads these words
This hurt I feel bleeds through
Before the ink dry
I want you to know what it feels like
When your heart is done
I'm so tired
So I need you to
Hurry hurry please Mr. Mailman
Overnight it if you can
I need you to feel me,feel me
This is a special delivery
Hurry hurry now before I take it back
Before he cleans up his act
I need you to feel me,feel me
This is a special delivery
Got me saying oh, special delivery
This is a special delivery

Writer/s: HUDSON, ERIC / JOHNSON, CRYSTAL / MCCALL, KEVIN
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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Special Delivery

This was the first single released by Bridget Kelly. She described it to The Boombox , as a "classic R&B-feeling record" with a modern twist, adding, "I just felt like it was sort of the perfect debut, so people could really understand that I take myself seriously and I take how I feel really seriously."

Kelly described the song's meaning as, "a romantic take on a relationship and the demise of it."

Nina Simone - Young, Gifted And Black

Nina Simone - Young, Gifted And Black Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Black Gold
Released: 1969

Young, Gifted And Black Lyrics

To be Young, Gifted And Black,
Oh what a lovely precious dream
To be young, gifted and black,
Open your heart to what I mean

In the whole world you know
There are billion boys and girls
Who are young, gifted and black,
And that's a fact!

Young, gifted and black
We must begin to tell our young
There's a world waiting for you
This is a quest that's just begun

When you feel really low
Yeah, there's a great truth you should know
When you're young, gifted and black
Your soul's intact

Young, gifted and black
How I long to know the truth
There are times when I look back
And I am haunted by my youth

Oh but my joy of today
Is that we can all be proud to say
To be young, gifted and black
Is where it's at

Writer/s: Irvine, Weldon / Simone, Nina
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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Young, Gifted And Black

Originally called "To Be Young, Gifted and Black," Nina Simone wrote this song with a poet named Weldon Irvine, who contributed lyrics. It was a relaxed session, Simone's daughter Lisa remembered. "One of the first things I remember as a child was being in the studio when she and Weldon Irvine were working on 'Young, Gifted and Black.' Weldon was very laid-back and talented. He and my mother got along well. A personality like my mother's was offset very well by his laid-back personality. The first things I think about were his eyes, which were very big. He was the man when it came to organ and piano."

The author Lorraine Hansberry, famous for her play A Raisin in the Sun, was an inspiration for this song. After Hansberry died in 1965, a collection of her works was published under the title To Be Young, Gifted and Black, which was also made into an off-Broadway play. Simone wrote the song to honor her memory.

Simone told Irvine she wanted lyrics that "will make black children all over the world feel good about themselves forever." It proved to be a tall order for Irvine. He recalled to journalist Oliver Wang:

"It was the only time in my life that I wrestled with creating," he said. "Usually, I just open the door and it comes. I was in my Ford Galaxie on my way to the bus station to pick up a girlfriend from down South. I stopped at a red light at Forty-First Street and Eighth Avenue when all the words came to me at once. I tied up traffic at that red light for fifteen minutes, as I scribbled on three napkins and a matchbook cover. A whole bunch of irate taxi drivers were leaning on their horns. I wrote it, put it in the glove compartment, picked up the girl, and didn't look at it until she got back on the bus to go home." When he read it, he thought, "I didn't write this. God wrote it through me."

This was released as a single in 1969 and reached its Hot 100 peak of #76 in January 1970. Simone released an album in 1970 called Gifted & Black, but it didn't include this track. Simone did include the song on her live album Black Gold, which was released later that year. That album was recorded at the New York Philharmonic Hall in October 1969.

The single runs just 2:46, but the live version stretches to 9:34.

In the UK, the duo Bob & Marcia recorded the most popular version of this song, taking it to #5 in March 1970. Bob Andy and Marcia (pronounced "Mar-See-a") Griffiths were successful reggae solo singers in their native Jamaica. Producer Harry J put them together to record their reggae version of this song, which became the first UK hit to incorporate a reggae string section. A year later, Bob & Marcia hit #11 UK with "Pied Piper," then resumed their solo careers. Griffiths became a member of Bob Marley's backup group, and had a hit on her own with "Electric Boogie."

Simone's live album Black Gold, which included this song, was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance in 1971. That category was dominated by Aretha Franklin, who won it every year from 1968-1975, beating Simone twice (Nina was also nominated in 1968 for "You'll Go to Hell"). Franklin's "Don't Play That Song" was the 1971 winner, but Aretha loved "Young, Gifted And Black" and visited Simone in Barbados to personally ask permission to cover it. Franklin included it on her 1972 album, also titled Young, Gifted and Black. Franklin's performance of the song was the Grammy winner in 1973.

Harry J produced the Bob & Marcia version, recording it at his studio and releasing it on his Harry J Record label. The year before, Harry J had a #9 hit with "Liquidator," which he recorded with his reggae group The Harry J. All Stars. In 1981 he produced "The Bed's Too Big Without You," a #35 UK hit for Jamaican singer Sheila Hylton.

Boris Gardiner played bass on the Bob & Marcia version. He went on to have three UK Top 20 hits, including a #1 in 1986 with his light reggae version of the Mac Davis song "I Wanna Wake Up With You."

Bryan Adams - This Time

Bryan Adams - This Time Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Cuts Like A Knife
Released: 1983

This Time Lyrics

This Time

Bryan Adams followed up with the success of singles like "Straight From The Heart" and "Cuts Like A Knife" with this song, about a man who's been shy around an attractive woman he's been pining for, but has decided he is finally going to man up and tell her how he fells.

Adams wrote the song with his regular collaborator Jim Vallance, who reflects on his website : "I go back and forth on this song ... sometimes I like it, sometimes I don't. I'm not even sure why. It has a great guitar riff (Bryan's idea), a good middle eight, a decent chorus. It all seems to work ... but for me there's something about this song that just doesn't resonate."

Santana - Toussaint L'Overture

Santana - Toussaint L'Overture Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Santana III
Released: 1971

Toussaint L'Overture Lyrics

Los cueros me llaman
Los cueros me llaman

El timbal
El timbal

Vamos morena a bailar mi montuno
Vamos morena a bailar mi montuno

Writer/s: SANTANA, CARLOS / ROLIE, GREGG / AREAS, JOSE / CARABELLO, MICHAEL JOHN / SHRIEVE, MICHAEL / BROWN, MICHAEL RANDALL
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Toussaint L'Overture

Toussaint L'Overture was a former Haitian slave who helped his country get its independence from France in 1804.

The song's title is not in the lyrics, which are all in Spanish.

The last line, which is hard to make out, is "Vamos morena, a bailar mi montuno" (Come dance my montuno). A "montuno" is a type of Afro-Cuban music that piles on different tunes and it gradually builds up towards the end.

Future Journey guitarist Neal Schon played on this song. He turned down an offer to join Derek and the Dominos, and he was only 15 at the time. Schon and Santana had a type of competition during the recording of the song, with both guitarists having their solos erased each time they recorded a take.

Santana III is the last album featuring the original Woodstock-era Santana lineup and the first that included Neal Schon, who later formed Journey. Schon was just 17 when he joined Santana.

Bryan Adams - Native Son

Bryan Adams - Native Son Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Into The Fire
Released: 1987

Native Son Lyrics

Native Son

This was an attempt by Bryan Adams and his frequent collaborator Jim Vallance to make a statement about the treatment of native Indians by the early white settlers. It was inspired by Chief Joseph, chief of the Nez Perce ("nose pierced") tribe from the 1800s.

Adams had the song name for a couple of years, but had trouble finding a lyrical theme to go with the title. It was Vallance's friend Duris Maxwell (who is of Native American heritage), who suggested Chief Joseph. Vallance recalled on his website : "I went to the Vancouver library and read everything I could find on Joseph, which turned out to be a truly fascinating story. I wrote a page of notes at the library, most of it direct quotes from Joseph's speeches. With a little modification those notes became the basis for the song."

The Hollywood Argyles - Alley Oop

The Hollywood Argyles - Alley Oop Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Alley Oop
Released: 1960

Alley Oop Lyrics

(Oop-oop, oop, oop-oop)
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)

There's a man in the funny papers we all know
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)
He lives way back a long time ago
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)
He don't eat nothin' but a bear cat stew
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)
Well, this cat's name is Alley-Oop
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)

He got a chauffeur that's a genuine dinosaur
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)
And he can knuckle your head before you count to four
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)

He got a big ugly club and a head full of hair
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)
Like great big lions and grizzly bears
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)
(Alley-Oop) He's the toughest man there is alive
(Alley-Oop) Wearin' clothes from a wildcat's hide
(Alley-Oop) He's the king of the jungle jive
(Look at that cave man go!) (Scream!)

He rides through the jungle, tearin' limbs off of trees
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)
Knockin' great big monsters dead on their knees
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)
The cats don't bug him 'cause they know better
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)
'Cause he's a mean motor scooter and a bad go-getter
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)
(Alley-Oop) He's the toughest man there is alive
(Alley-Oop) Wears clothes from a wildcat's hide
(Alley-Oop) He's the king of the jungle jive
(Look at that cave man go!) (Scream!)

There he goes
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)
Look at that cave man go
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)
He sure is hip, ain't he?
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)
Like what's happening
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)
He's too much
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)
Ride, daddy, ride
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)
Hi-yo, dinosaur
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)
Ride, daddy, ride
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)
Get 'em, man
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)
Like hips ville
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)

Writer/s: DALLAS FRAZIER
Publisher: KARIN MUSIC, Reservoir One Music, RESERVOIR MEDIA MANAGEMENT INC
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Alley Oop

Alley Oop was a popular newspaper comic strip about a caveman. This is a novelty song based on the character.

This was written by the Country songwriter Dallas Frazier, who recorded the song in 1966 and released it on his album Elvira (Columbia 2552). In 1967 Englebert Humperdinck recorded Frazier's "There Goes My Everything," which hit #2 in the UK and #20 in the US.

Lead singer Gary Paxton recorded this as a solo artist, since he was still under contract to Brent Records, where he recorded as Flip of "Skip And Flip." He made up the name Hollywood Argyles - the recording studio was on Hollywood Boulevard and Argyle Street. When this became a hit, Paxton put together a Hollywood Argyles group, made up of Bobby Rey, Ted Marsh, Gary Webb, Deary Weaver and Ted Winters. This ended up being their only hit.

Producer Kim Fowley and drummer Sandy Nelson bashed empty bottles and wastepaper baskets during the session. Alcohol was a factor.

The Cure - Let's Go To Bed

The Cure - Let's Go To Bed Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Japanese Whispers
Released: 1982

Let's Go To Bed Lyrics

Let me take your hand
I'm shaking like milk
Turning
Turning blue
All over the windows and the floors
Fires outside in the sky
Look as perfect as cats
The two of us
Together again
But it's just the same
A stupid game

But I don't care if you don't
And I don't feel if you don't
And I don't want it if you don't
And I won't say it
If you won't say it first

You think you're tired now
But wait until three
Laughing at the Christmas lights
You remember from December
All of this then back again
Another girl
Another name
Stay alive but stay the same
It's just the same
A stupid game

But I don't care if you don't
And I don't feel if you don't
And I don't want it if you don't
And I won't say it
If you won't say it first

You can't even see now
So you ask me the way
You wonder if it's real
Because it couldn't be rain
Through the right doorway
And into the white room
It used to be the dust that would lay here
When I came here alone

Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Let's Go To Bed

Writer/s: SMITH, ROBERT JAMES / TOLHURST, LAURENCE ANDREW
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Let's Go To Bed

Speaking to the Rock 'n' Roll Alternative Show in 1983, frontman Robert Smith said that he didn't want this sarcastic reflection on sexual imagery in pop music ever to be released. "It wasn't as dumb as I wanted it to be," he explained. "It was really me reacting against The Cure's image, the states we've gone through. So I wanted to do something that was really, really dumb and pop. The words mean nothing. Once I recorded it I thought maybe this isn't quite right. And it was taken over and taken to its logical conclusion and released... Looking back maybe it wasn't such a bad thing. But at the time I was really, really angry 'cause I didn't want it released."

The song was a moderate hit, doing especially well in Australia, where it reached #15.

This was both the first and last song played on WFNX. The Boston Alternative Rock radio station played the tune when they signed on in 1983, and as the final song broadcast on their last day on the air: July 20, 2012.

The Who - I'm Free

The Who - I'm Free Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Tommy
Released: 1969

I'm Free Lyrics

[Tommy:]
I'm Free- I'm free,
And freedom tastes of reality,
I'm free-I'm free,
AN' I'm waiting for you to follow me.

If I told you what it takes
to reach the highest high,
You'd laugh and say 'nothing's that simple'
But you've been told many times before
Messiahs pointed to the door
And no one had the guts to leave the temple!

I'm free-I'm free
And freedom tastes of reality
I'm free-I'm free
And I'm waiting for you to follow me.

[Chorus:]
How can we follow?
How can we follow?

Writer/s:
Publisher: ABKCO MUSIC INC, FABULOUS MUSIC LTD, SPIRIT MUSIC GROUP
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I'm Free

This was part of The Who's Rock Opera Tommy. Tommy is free because his mother smashed the mirror that he was kind of trapped in. He always gazed at his reflection and this was the only thing he could really see. Now Tommy wants his disciples to follow him ("How can we follow?") and says he's their Messiah.

Pete Townshend wrote Tommy, but their manager, Kit Lambert, deserves some of the credit for the idea. Lambert's father was a conductor and fairly well known in the world of Classical Music. Kit helped come up with the idea of a Rock Opera, which incorporated many elements of a Classical piece.

James Brown - America Is My Home, Pt. 1

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Album: The Millennium Collection: The Best of James Brown
Released: 1968

America Is My Home, Pt. 1 Lyrics

Talking 'bout me leaving America
You gotta be crazy, man, I like
All the nice thing, Jack
Colonial suits and things, look at here

Now I am sorry for the man
Who don't love this land
Now black and white, they may fight
But when up the enemy come
We'll get together and run about all side

I love it

The sun don't come out in rainy weather
But when you ball it down they are still together
Now let's not overlook the fact that we are, we are still in reach
You got to chance to make it and you got a freedom of speech

Say what you wanna, tell 'em how you feel
There may be a lot of places, a lot of places that you like to go
But believe me if you get an education you can blow
You can all it blow, dig this

Now you tell me if I'm wrong
America is still the best country
And that's without a doubt
America is still the best country
Without a doubt

And if anybody says it ain't, you can try to put him out
They ain't going nowhere, you got a good fight
When I tell you one time that I was a shoeshine boy
Every word I said, I meant

But name me any other country
You can start out as a shoeshine boy
And shake hand with the president
It ain't gonna help you gotta had that royal blood to make it
And I ain't got nothing royal but me
So I can take the chances, I'm gonna stay home

And look at here I got a brand new jet
When I need to move
I saw a brother made it
Now it ain't that a rule

So look at here
Brothers and sisters and friends, dig this
So quit your dreaming all night
Stop beatin' yourself and get up and fight

Don't give up, you might give up, but just don't give out
I know if you give out don't give up
There's no quick going, I mean like keep it moving you know
Cause if you stop like a ball quit rolling

Now we got two of the [Incomprehensible] from Florida to Rome
Which we know there's one thing we'll never forget
America's still our home, hit it bad
God bless America, I'm talking about me too
You know I'm American myself, I like that kind of thing, look at here

Writer/s: BROWN, JAMES/MOORE, HAYWARD EPPS
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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America Is My Home, Pt. 1

In 1968, several of James Brown's actions threatened his reputation as a spokesman for the black power movement. He riled the pacifists after performing for the US army in Vietnam and lending his political support to Vice President Hubert Humphrey against the popular anti-Vietnam War candidate Robert Kennedy.

Brown also recorded this spoken-word track, which extolled the virtues of his homeland. The Godfather Of Soul responded to the criticism by recording "Say It Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud," which was a fierce attack on racist America and the need for black empowerment and pride.