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Mungo Jerry - In the Summertime

Mungo Jerry - In the Summertime Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: In the Summertime
Released: 1970

In the Summertime Lyrics

Chh chh-chh, uh, Chh chh-chh, uh
Chh chh-chh, uh, Chh chh-chh, uh
Chh chh-chh, uh, Chh chh-chh, uh
Chh chh-chh, uh, Chh chh-chh, uh
Chh chh-chh, uh, Chh chh-chh, uh
Chh chh-chh, uh, Chh chh-chh

In the Summertime when the weather is hot
You can stretch right up and touch the sky
When the weather's fine
You got women, you got women on your mind
Have a drink, have a drive
Go out and see what you can find

If her daddy's rich take her out for a meal
If her daddy's poor just do what you feel
Speed along the lane
Do a ton or a ton an' twenty-five
When the sun goes down
You can make it, make it good in a lay-by

We're no threat, people
We're not dirty, we're not mean
We love everybody but we do as we please
When the weather's fine
We go fishin' or go swimmin' in the sea
We're always happy
Life's for livin' yeah, that's our philosophy

Sing along with us
Dee dee dee-dee dee
Dah dah dah-dah dah
Yeah we're hap-happy
Dah dah-dah
Dee-dah-do dee-dah-do dah-do-dah
Dah-do-dah-dah-dah
Dah-dah-dah do-dah-dah

Alright ah

Chh chh-chh, uh, Chh chh-chh, uh
Chh chh-chh, uh, Chh chh-chh, uh
Chh chh-chh, uh, Chh chh-chh, uh
Chh chh-chh, uh, Chh chh-chh, uh
Chh chh-chh, uh, Chh chh-chh, uh
Chh chh-chh, uh, Chh chh-chh

When the winter's here, yeah it's party time
Bring your bottle, wear your bright clothes
It'll soon be summertime
And we'll sing again
We'll go drivin' or maybe we'll settle down
If she's rich, if she's nice
Bring your friends and we'll all go into town

Chh chh-chh, uh, Chh chh-chh, uh
Chh chh-chh, uh, Chh chh-chh, uh
Chh chh-chh, uh, Chh chh-chh, uh
Chh chh-chh, uh, Chh chh-chh, uh
Chh chh-chh, uh, Chh chh-chh, uh
Chh chh-chh, uh, Chh chh-chh

In the summertime when the weather is hot
You can stretch right up and touch the sky
When the weather's fine
You got women, you got women on your mind
Have a drink, have a drive
Go out and see what you can find

If her daddy's rich take her out for a meal
If her daddy's poor just do what you feel
Speed along the lane
Do a ton or a ton an' twenty-five
When the sun goes down
You can make it, make it good in a lay-by

We're no threat, people
We're not dirty, we're not mean
We love everybody but we do as we please
When the weather's fine
We go fishin' or go swimmin' in the sea
We're always happy
Life's for livin' yeah, that's our philosophy

Sing along with us
Dee dee dee-dee dee
Dah dah dah-dah dah
Yeah we're hap-happy
Dah dah-dah
Dee-dah-do dee-dah-do dah-do-dah
Dah-do-dah-dah-dah

Writer/s: DORSET, RAY
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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In the Summertime

This buoyant tune was written by Ray Dorset, who was the group's lead singer and guitarist. He penned the song in 1968 when he was working for Timex in the UK - his band was just getting started and music was more of a hobby at the time. Dorest says that the famous melody just popped into his head one day, and the next day he wrote the lyrics very quickly.

"It's got no chorus; all it's got is a melody that goes over and over again with a set of lyrics that conjure up a celebration of life," he said. "Especially if you're a young person: it's a great day, you've managed to get a car - preferably with the top off - you're cruising around, and if you're a guy you're picking up girls."

The band was known as Memphis Leather and The Good Earth before getting a record deal and changing their name to Mungo Jerry (after the character Mungojerrie from the T. S. Eliot book Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats - later the basis for the Broadway play Cats).

Barry Murray, a producer at Pye Records, was a friend of Ray Dorset's and signed the group to the label's more adventurous imprint, Dawn Records, which released "In The Summertime" as their first single. The song took off, going to #1 in their native UK and making #3 in America. The UK fortunes of the song were aided by the group's appearance at the Hollywood Music Festival in Staffordshire England on May 23, 1970, shortly after the song was released. Playing on low on a bill with the Grateful Dead, Black Sabbath, Free and Traffic, the song got the attention of the 35,000 or so fans in attendance, giving it a huge lift.

The American appeal of this song can be attributed to the lyrical inspiration: American beach movies that lead singer Ray Dorset grew up watching. "That was the teenage dream," he said. "What more can you want?"

There is some very interesting instrumentation on this track. Ray Dorset did the vocals and played guitars (acoustic and electric), as well as a shaker instrument called cabasa. Paul King played banjo and jug; Mike Cole played string bass; Colin Earl played piano.

Note that there are no drums, although you can hear Dorset stomping his foot to the rhythm. This was influenced by John Lee Hooker, who often used his foot as a percussion instrument.

Another structural anomaly: the title is repeated just twice in the song.

Few songs have endured like this one, which finds its way onto playlists every summer and is constantly being commissioned for movies, TV shows and commercials. "It's an honor for me to have a song that I wrote that people want to associate with so many different moods and feelings and events," Ray Dorset said. "The longer it goes on, the more it becomes like 'Happy Birthday,' because when everybody thinks of the summer, they think of 'In The Summertime.'"

Around the two-minute mark, the song stops and we hear a car drive by, punctuating the line, "we'll all go into town." This was a recording of the engineer's sports car driving by the studio.

The band made a video for this song, which some UK groups did to promote their wares on European TV shows. Like most videos of the time, it's a performance piece, but thanks to the jug and upright bass it was a very unusual performance. Also distinguishing the video: lead singer Ray Dorset's sweet mutton chops, scarf and fishnet shirt.

The Reggae artist Shaggy covered this in 1995. His version, which features the singer Rayvon, reached #5 in the UK. Ray Dorset re-recorded his guitar part for Shaggy's version.

In the UK, this was issued as a "maxi-single," which was a 7-inch record played at 33 1/3 RPM instead of the standard 45, which allowed for more music in the limited space. Also included on the single were two other songs: "Mighty Man" and "Dust Pneumonia Blues."

In the US, "In The Summertime" was issued as a standard single and also included on the album of the same name. In the UK, the group's first album was called Mungo Jerry, and did not include this song.

Mungo Jerry never again charted in the US, but fared very well in the UK, where the following year "Baby Jump" went to #1 and "Lady Rose" made #5. The group scored five more Top 40 UK hits by 1974. They have since been sporadically active under Ray Dorset's guidance with a number of different lineups.

This sold over 16 million copies worldwide and was Britain's biggest-selling single in 1970. In that territory, it really was the "song of the summer," peaking in June that year. By the time the song caught on in America, summer was coming to an end - it reached it's peak position on September 12.

Some of the many TV shows to use this song include:

The Simpsons (2004)
Life on Mars (2007)
New Girl (2014)

Movies include:
The Substitute (1996)
Breaking Out (1999)
Mr. Deeds (2002)
Anita and Me (2002)
Wedding Crashers (2005)
Despicable Me 2 (2013)

ABS - What You Got

ABS - What You Got Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Abstract Theory
Released: 2002

What You Got Lyrics

Hit the block around twenty to nine,
Checking my girl
But then I see this girl lookin' fine, so I
Asked her if she wouldn't mind,
Could you tell me your name and what you're doing tonight ?
Body like nothin' I seen,
She's telling me she's on the cover of GQ magazine.
Tellin' me she had to go
So I dropped her at the spot in my four by four

So I told her
I can't be late,
The girl's taking up my time,
Had to hit her with a line,
So I told her
I can't wait to freak,
See you at the same time next week.
She said

Baby give me What You Got,
'Cause I'm everything that's she's not.
Love is all I bring,
In my khaki suit and thing.
So honey leave your girl at home,
With your car keys, mobile phone.
Love is all I got,
All the things that make you hot

Got my woman crazy on the phone,
She's talking bout why the fuck my ass ain't at home.
Had to tell her I was stuck,
In some brand new business, I was all tied up.
Told the girl I was late,
I had to rhyme.
I got to be backstage at a quarter past nine.
Telling me to change my mind
She's like Britney Spears "Baby hit me one more time"

So I told her
I can't be late,
The girl's taking up my time,
Had to hit her with a line,
So I told her
I can't wait to freak,
See you at the same time next week.
She said

Baby give me what you got,
'Cause I'm everything that's she's not.
Love is all I bring,
In my khaki suit and thing.
So honey leave your girl at home,
With your car keys, mobile phone.
Love is all I got,
All the things that make you hot

Writer/s: FORREST, ALTHEA/REID, DONNA MARIE/GALLAGHER, JULIAN / THOMPSON, ERROL/GIBBS, JOE/BREEN, RICHARD(ABS)
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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What You Got

Richard Abidin "Abs" Breen started his music career as a member of Five, a boy band that put together by Simon Cowell. Five enjoyed worldwide success clocking up a number of international hits, but disbanded on September 27, 2001. After Five split up, Breen became the only band member to release a solo album when he dropped Abstract Theory.

This was both Abs' debut and most successful solo single, peaking at #4 on the UK singles chart. He went on to clock up two more UK Top 10 hits. "Stop Sign", (#10) and "Miss Perfect" (#5).

The song features samples from Andrea and Donna's 1978 reggae hit "Uptown Top Ranking."

Breen changed his stage name from Abs to Abz Love in June 2008. He explained that he switched his moniker because "I got a bit annoyed of everyone referencing the six-pack."

Creed - Weathered

Creed - Weathered Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Weathered
Released: 2001

Weathered Lyrics

I lie awake on a long, dark night
I can't seem to tame my mind
Slings and arrows are killing me inside
Maybe I can't accept the life that's mine
No, maybe I can't accept the life that's mine

Simple living is my desperate cry
Been trading love with indifference
And yeah it suits me just fine
I try to hold on but I'm calloused to the bone
Maybe that's why I feel alone
Yeah, maybe that's why I feel so alone

'Cause me, I'm rusted and Weathered
Barely holding together
I'm covered with skin that peels and
It just won't heal

I'm rusted and weathered
Barely holding together
I'm covered with skin that peels and
It just won't heal

Naw, it just won't heal, no, no, no.

The sun shines and I can't avoid the light
I think I'm holding on to life too tight
Ashes to ashes and dust to dust
Sometimes I feel like giving up
Yeah, I said,
Sometimes I feel like giving up

'Cause me, I'm rusted and weathered
Barely holding together
I'm covered with skin that peels and
It just won't heal
I'm rusted and weathered
Barely holding together
I'm covered with skin that peels and
It just won't heal
It just won't heal, No.

The day reminds me of you
The night hides your truth
The earth is a voice
Speaking to you
Take all this pride
And leave it behind
'Cause one day it ends
One day we die
Believe what you will
That is your right
But I choose to win
I choose to fight
To fight

'Cause me, I'm rusted and weathered
Barely holding together
I'm covered with skin that peels
And it just won't heal

I'm rusted and weathered
Barely holding together
I'm covered with skin that peels
And it just won't,
Covered with skin that peels
And it just won't
Covered with skin that peels
And it just won't heal.

Writer/s: TREMONTI, MARK / STAPP, SCOTT
Publisher: Reservoir One Music
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Weathered

This seems to pertain to the endurance of hardship; whether it be despair, the insignificance of one's life, or stagnation. The chorus and song title both allude to exposure to external elements and influences which alter a person. Just as a rock is weathered and metals rusted, the human specimen is also changed due to experience. Yet the admission of his vulnerability and jaded state is obvious; moments indicative of hope are embedded as well ("But I choose to win. So I choose to fight.").

There are some possible religious/spiritual references, including the following:

"The sun shines and I can't avoid the light" - Light is indicative of an awareness of reality; is also synonymous with spiritual illumination.

"The day reminds me of you" - Possibly a reference to Jesus Christ.

"The earth is a voice; Speaking to you" - This excerpt is conveying a message that affirms that the earth itself is a messenger; upholding its own law with or without the assent of man.

"Take all this pride, and leave it behind" - In reference to pride in the sense of vanity or self-conceit; many Christian's condemn it, claiming it causes one to become spiritually "zombified."

"Believe what you will. That is your right" - A reference to free will.

The Andrews Sisters - Rum and Coca-Cola

The Andrews Sisters - Rum and Coca-Cola Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Capitol Collectors Series
Released: 1945

Rum and Coca-Cola Lyrics

If you ever go down Trinidad
They make you feel so very glad
Calypso sing and make up rhyme
Guarantee you one real good fine time
Drinkin' Rum and Coca-Cola
Go down Point Koomahnah
Both mother and daughter
Workin' for the yankee dollar
Oh, beat it man, beat it
Since the yankee come to Trinidad
They got the young girls all goin' mad
Young girls say they treat 'em nice
Make Trinidad like paradise
Drinkin' rum and Coca-Cola
Go down Point Koomahnah
Both mother and daughter
Workin' for the yankee dollar
Oh, you vex me, you vex me
From Chicachicaree to Mona's Isle
Native girls all dance and smile
Help soldier celebrate his leave
Make every day like New Year's Eve
Drinkin' rum and Coca-Cola
Go down Point Koomahnah
Both mother and daughter
Workin' for the yankee dollar
It's a fact, man, it's a fact
In old Trinidad, I also fear
The situation is mighty queer
Like the yankee girl, the native swoon
When she hear der bingo croon
Drinkin' Rum and Coca-Cola
Go down Point Koomahnah
Both mother and daughter
Workin' for the yankee dollar
Out on Manzanella Beach
G.I. romance with native peach
All night long, make tropic love
Next day, sit in hot sun and cool off
Drinkin' rum and Coca-Cola
Go down Point Koomahnah
Both mother and daughter
Workin' for the yankee dollar
It's a fact, man, it's a fact
Rum and Coca-Cola
Rum and Coca-Cola
Workin' for the yankee dollar

Writer/s: AMSTERDAM, MOREY / BARON, PAUL / SULLAVAN, JERI / STILLMAN, AL
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Rum and Coca-Cola

During World War II, around 20,000 American GIs were stationed in Trinidad, ostensibly to deter any invasion. Unhappy with the situation, a local calypso musician named Rupert Grant, who went by the stage name of Lord Invader, wrote some lyrics commenting on how the American servicemen drank rum and coke, and then used their Yankee dollars to attract (or purchase the services of) the local women. The melody had been previously published as the work of Trinidadian calypso composer Lionel Belasco on a song titled "L'Année Passée," which was in turn based on a folk song from nearby Martinique. The track was a huge hit in Trinidad in 1943.

In 1945 the Andrews Sisters recorded a very similar song sung in hammy Trinidadian accents. It had the same title, general subject, and even some of the same lyrics but was stripped of its social commentary. According to Patty Andrews, "We had a recording date... we had some extra time and we just threw it in, and that was the miracle of it. It was actually a faked arrangement."

The Andrews Sisters' version became the biggest-selling song of the year and the the third biggest of the decade in the United States. Despite its popularity, the song was controversial and was banned by network radio stations because it mentioned an alcoholic beverage and hinted at prostitution. The fact that it mentioned a commercial product by name also meant that it could be construed as free advertising when broadcast.

Entertainer Morey Amsterdam and two business associates were credited with writing the Andrews Sisters' version. In an ensuing court case, it was found that Amsterdam, who had visited Trinidad when Lord Invader's hit was current, had indeed copied the song, and the calypso singer won an $150,000 in compensation. However, Amsterdam was allowed to retain copyright to the song.

The Andrews Sisters cover of Lord Invader's song was the first American Calypso hit. The most famous song in that genre would come in 1956 with Harry Belafonte's version of "The Banana Boat Song (Day-O)." In 1957, six different artists charted in the Top 40 with covers of that song.

When Desmond Carrington played this song in January 2014 on his program The Music Goes Round, he said in the 1940s, the BBC banned the Andrews Sisters recording as advertising, adding that it is indeed, but it is not about a mother and daughter selling a certain fizzy drink but "selling something rather different. Nobody seemed to notice that, including the BBC, unless of course they did, but didn't dare to tell us."

Roger Waters - Watching TV

Roger Waters - Watching TV Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Amused To Death
Released: 1992

Watching TV Lyrics

We were watching T.V.
Watching T.V.
We were Watching T.V.
Watching T.V.

In Tiananmen Square
Lost my baby there
My yellow rose
In her bloodstained clothes

She was a short order pastry chef
In a Dim Sum dive on the Yangtze tideway
She had shiny hair
She was the daughter of an engineer

Won't you shed a tear
For my yellow rose
My yellow rose
In her bloodstained clothes

She had perfect breasts
She had high hopes
She had almond eyes
She had yellow thighs

She was a student of philosophy
Won't you grieve with me
For my yellow rose
Shed a tear

For her bloodstained clothes
She had shiny hair
She had perfect breasts
She had high hopes

She had almond eyes
She had yellow thighs
She was the daughter of an engineer
So get out your pistols

Get out your stones
Get out your knives
Cut them to the bone
They are the lackeys of the grocer's machine

They built the dark satanic mills
That manufacture hell on earth
They bought the front row seats on Calvary
They are irrelevant to me

But I grieve for my sister
People of China
Do not forget do not forget
The children who died for you

Long live the Republic
Did we do anything after this
I've a feeling we did
We were watching T.V.

Watching T.V.
We were watching T.V.
Watching T.V.
She wore a white bandanna that said

Freedom now
She thought the Great Wall of China
Would come tumbling down
She was a student

Her father was an engineer
Won't you shed a tear
For my yellow rose
My yellow rose

In her bloodstained clothes
Her grandpa fought old Chiang Kai-shek
That no-good low-down dirty rat
Who used to order his troops

To fire on the women and children
Imagine that imagine that
And in the spring of '48
Mao Tse-tung got quite irate

And he kicked that old dictator Chiang
Out of the state of China
Chiang Kai-shek came down in Formosa
And they armed the island of Quemoy

And the shells were flying across the China Sea
And they turned Formosa into a shoe factory
Called Taiwan
And she is different from Cro-Magnon man

She's different from Anne Boleyn
She is different from the Rosenbergs
And from the unknown Jew
She is different from the unknown Nicaraguan

Half superstar half victim
She's a victor star conceptually new
And she is different from the Dodo
And from the Kankanbono

She is different from the Aztec
And from the Cherokee
She's everybody's sister
She's symbolic of our failure

She's the one in fifty million
Who can help us to be free
Because she died on T.V.
And I grieve for my sister

Writer/s: WATERS, ROGER
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Watching TV

This song describes a fictional woman killed at Tiananmen Square in 1989 to show how much of an effect someone's death can have on the world if it happens live on TV.

Biffy Clyro - 57

Biffy Clyro - 57 Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Blackened Sky
Released: 2002

57 Lyrics

The sun shone in, the glint in your eye
Your beautiful face, your beautiful face
I held her tight, close to my heart
I didn't know it would break, I didn't know it would break

I don't believe there's love anymore, it's all inside
We always said it's forever in this beautiful life
And I'll try not to feel this music's for you and over, and over, and over
And I'll try not to feel this music's for you and over, and over, and over

I held her tight, close to my heart
I didn't know it would break, I didn't know it would break
I don't believe there's love anymore, it's all inside
We always said it's forever in this beautiful life
And I'll try not to feel this music's for you and over, and over, and over
And I'll try not to feel this music's for you and over, and over, and over

And over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over,
and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over,
and over, and over, and over...
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright, it's alright!

Writer/s: SIMON NEIL
Publisher: IMAGEM U.S. LLC
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57

A single from Biffy Clyro's, 2002 debut album, Blackened Sky, this became the band's first chart entry when it peaked at #61 on the UK singles chart.

An early version of the song, with different vocals and guitars, appeared on Biffy Clyro's debut 2000 EP, thekidswhopoptodaywillrocktomorrow.

The song was written at an important time in frontman Simon Neil's life. It's tale of heartbreak is about hurt, but also of moving on and what comes next. "It was about trying to become a man," explained Neil in Kerrang! magazine. "Leaving home, deciding to take a chance on the band and putting everything into that."

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

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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

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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

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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

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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."