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Give Me Just a Little More Time "Give Me Just a Little More Time" is the debut single for Chairmen of the Board, released in 1970 through Capitol Records on Holland–Dozier–Holland's Invictus Records label. The song was written and produced by Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Edward Holland, Jr., and Ron Dunbar. Because of the then still-pending lawsuit against Holland-Dozier-Holland from their former employers, Motown, the trio credited themselves with the pseudonym "Edythe Wayne" for this song and many other early Invictus/Hot Wax releases. "Give Me Just a Little More Time" features Chairmen of the Board lead singer General Johnson as
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Time."He was working in the middle of the night when he ran downstairs to his record label to find the track. The song was played to Minogue the next morning. These are the formats and track listings of major single releases of "Give Me Just a Little More Time." UK CD Single UK 7" Vinyl Single UK 12" Vinyl Single UK iTunes Bundle Minogue performed the song on the following concert tours: Give Me Just a Little More Time "Give Me Just a Little More Time" is the debut single for Chairmen of the Board, released in 1970 through Capitol
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Give Me Just a Little More Time "Give Me Just a Little More Time" is the debut single for Chairmen of the Board, released in 1970 through Capitol Records on Holland–Dozier–Holland's Invictus Records label. The song was written and produced by Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Edward Holland, Jr., and Ron Dunbar. Because of the then still-pending lawsuit against Holland-Dozier-Holland from their former employers, Motown, the trio credited themselves with the pseudonym "Edythe Wayne" for this song and many other early Invictus/Hot Wax releases. "Give Me Just a Little More Time" features Chairmen of the Board lead singer General Johnson as
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The single also peaked at number-eight on the "Billboard" R&B Singles chart. It reached number three in the UK Singles Chart in September 1970, having already sold more than one million copies in the US. The first Chairmen of the Board LP, a self-titled release, included the single; after the single's success, the "Chairmen of the Board" album was reissued as "Give Me Just a Little More Time". In 1982, American R&B singer Angela Clemmons remade the song and it peaked at #4 on Billboard's Hot Dance Music/Club Play Singles chart. The Funk Brothers who played on "Give Me Just
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but we didn't put our names on 'em because we were in a lawsuit and couldn't use our names. So we used Ronnie Dunbar, who was an employee of ours and Edith Wayne, who was a friend of the Holland family... Dunbar and Wayne were credited as co-writers on most of the hit records produced by Invictus and Hot Wax, including "Give Me Just a Little More Time" by Chairmen of the Board, which reached #3 in both the US and UK in 1970, and Freda Payne's "Band of Gold" which reached #3 in the US and #1 in the
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string of hit records with Chairmen of the Board, which included "Give Me Just a Little More Time", "(You've Got Me) Dangling on a String", and "Everything's Tuesday", Kennedy left in 1974 and set out on a solo career. Kennedy served with the United States Air Force and later worked for Allied Chemical Corporation. Over the years on a part-time basis he played a variety of musical genres including funk, soul, R&B, folk, rock, and gospel. Kennedy spent almost 30 years outside of the music industry, before returning as a blues singer and guitarist with 2003's "Sweet Taste". In 2007,
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of the Board". Custis left the group after their second album. Although they all had a turn at lead vocals, it was Johnson's quirky hiccup-laden style and his songwriting that became increasingly showcased, with the group selling a million plus copies of their single, "Give Me Just a Little More Time". The disc was released in December 1969, reached number three on the US "Billboard" Hot 100, with one million sales confirmed in May 1970, when the group were presented with a gold record by the R.I.A.A. Chairmen of the Board also charted with "(You've Got Me) Dangling on a
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a recording career of his own with Pye Records, recording "Just Around the Corner" with "Don't Make Promises" on the flip side. He then moved into music production, his relative youth in what was already a youthful industry earning him the nickname 'Teenage' Aldred. His work included recordings for Billie Davis (for whom he also wrote some songs) and Wayne Fontana, with whom in 1970 he recorded a demo version of "Give Me Just A Little More Time" for Philips. However they were beaten to the release by the version by Chairmen of the Board which went to No. 3
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hit in both 1961 and 1964. Although the Showmen recorded other offerings for Minit and Swan, including such hits as "39-21-46", they split up in 1968. Johnson attempted an abortive solo career before joining the then new Invictus label in Detroit, Michigan. Steered by Holland-Dozier-Holland, Johnson recruited Danny Woods (ex-The Showmen), Harrison Kennedy, and Eddie Curtis and created Chairmen of the Board. Their debut single, "Give Me Just a Little More Time", rose to #3 in the US "Billboard" R&B chart in 1970. Further hits included "(You've Got Me) Dangling on a String" and "Everything's Tuesday." Johnson commenced a career
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(Edwin Starr, before that singer joined Motown itself), "(I Just Wanna) Testify" by the Parliaments, "Band Of Gold" (Freda Payne), "Give Me Just A Little More Time" (Chairmen of the Board), and blues giant John Lee Hooker's "Boom Boom". After he found out about the Edwin Starr session, Gordy fined members of the Funk Brothers band for moonlighting for another label; Eddie Wingate, owner of the Ric-Tic and Golden World labels, which released Starr's "Agent Double-O Soul", subsequently attended that year's Motown staff Christmas party and personally gave each of the fined session players double the amount of the fine
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hit songs at Invictus with "Edyth Wayne", a pseudonym used by Holland-Dozier-Holland during the time when they were in legal dispute with Motown and its music publishing arm Jobete to which they had been contracted. The song tells a story about how a boy born and raised in poverty in Alabama "on a farm way back up in the woods" took over responsibility for his family from his dying father. "Patches" was included on Chairmen of the Board's first album, "The Chairmen of the Board" (later reissued as "Give Me Just a Little More Time"), and was the B-side of
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writing team after they left Motown Records. The following year Chairmen of the Board had the first hit for Invictus with "Give Me Just a Little More Time." During the disco craze of the late 1970s, Detroit artists had several dance hits. In 1975, Stevie Wonder's drummer Hamilton Bohannon had a hit with "Foot Stompin' Music", while Donald Byrd & The Blackbyrds infused jazz with dance friendly elements that produced the song "Change (Makes You Wanna Hustle)". In 1977 Brainstorm & C. J. & Company each had soul driven dance hits. In 1978, George Clinton's bass player Bootsy Collins had
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rewards. They eventually launched Invictus, along with Hot Wax Records, in 1969. Their most successful acts on Invictus were Freda Payne and Chairmen of the Board; they also released Parliament's first album, "Osmium". The label was distributed by Capitol Records from 1969 to 1972 and then by Columbia Records from 1973 onwards. In September 1970, the British music magazine "NME" reported that Invictus had the UK's top two singles. Freda Payne's "Band of Gold" was #1, while Chairmen of the Board's "Give Me Just a Little More Time" was at #3 in the UK Singles Chart. Both of those records
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In 1982, "It Takes Heart" peaked at #53. He produced songs for Chairmen of the Board that would end up on their "Give Me Just A Little More Time + In Session ... Plus" album. Along with General Johnson and Angelo Bond, he produced and co-wrote "Bring The Boys Home" for Freda Payne. He was also the producer and co-writer for "Want Ads for the group Honey Cone. He produced the album "Oops! Here I Go Again" for his wife, former Honey Cone member Edna Wright which was released in 1977 on RCA. In addition to producing the album "In
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A Little More Time" included: "Give Me Just a Little More Time" was covered in 1992 by Australian pop singer Kylie Minogue. Minogue's version was featured in a commercial for "Accurist" watches at the time. It was one of the last tracks to be recorded for her fourth album, "Let's Get to It". It peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart, assisted by its club-oriented B-side "Do You Dare?" and sold 325,000 copies. "Give Me Just a Little More Time" is the only song from "Let's Get to It" to be included on Minogue's career-spanning compilation "Ultimate Kylie"
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the narrator, begging a lover not to rush intimacy: "We both want the sweetness in life/ But these things don't come overnight." Members of Motown's in-house band, The Funk Brothers, who played all of Holland-Dozier-Holland's previous hits, played on this recording as well as many other Invictus/Hot Wax recordings. "Give Me Just a Little More Time", backed with "Since the Days of Pigtails & Fairytales", peaked at number three on the "Billboard" Hot 100 in the United States, making it the best-performing of the Chairmen's singles, and the first of the Chairmen's four Billboard Hot 100 Top 40 pop hits.
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and "The Best of Kylie Minogue". The B-side "Do You Dare?" was included on Minogue's "Greatest Remixes (Vol. 2)", and was performed on her , , and For You, for Me concert tours. Pete Waterman stated:I went to bed, and, and I literally was in bed thinking of all these records that I had in my life [...] I was going through the library mentally thinking, what song would she never have done that we could do that was just a great song. And one of my favorite songs was Chairman of the Board's "Give Me Just a Little More
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out of the centre of the stage as the DNA intro of "Shocked" is heard. She sings up to the middle eight, before a short segue is played using excerpts of "It's No Secret", "Keep on Pumpin' It", "Give Me Just a Little More Time" and "What Kind of Fool (Heard All That Before)", which leads into a two-verse-two-chorus performance of "What Do I Have to Do", which is succeeded by another segue using an excerpt of "Over Dreaming (Over You)" and then a performance of "Spinning Around" (sampling the instrumentation of "Finally"), which is followed by a dance interlude
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excerpts of "Shocked" and "Do You Dare?", before Minogue rises out of the centre of the stage as the DNA intro of "Shocked" is heard. She sings up to the middle eight, before a short segue is played using excerpts of "It's No Secret", "Keep on Pumpin' It", "Give Me Just a Little More Time" and "What Kind of Fool (Heard All That Before)", which leads into a one-verse-one-chorus performance of "What Do I Have to Do", which is followed by another segue using an excerpt of "Over Dreaming (Over You)" and then a performance of "Spinning Around" (sampling the
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song is written in the key of E minor. Jackson's vocal spans from G3 to B4. It has a moderately slow tempo of 87 beats per minute. "Give In to Me" received positive reviews from contemporary music critics. "Entertainment Weekly" editor David Browne praised Jackson's delivery, writing, "when his voice isn't competing with drum machines, it's menacing on the creepy "Give In to Me" (his best-ever shot at hard rock)." Alan Light of "Rolling Stone" reviewed the song: "Give In to Me" flirts with something more disturbing as Jackson sings, "Don't try to understand me/Just simply do the things I
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Just a Little More Love Just a Little More Love is the debut studio album by David Guetta, released on by Virgin and Gum Prod. The album uses two main vocalists, Chris Willis and Barbara Tucker. The title track, "Just a Little More Love", was recorded in only thirty minutes. It was later remixed by Wally López and subsequently featured on "MoS: Clubbers Guide 2004" and in the soundtrack to "The Football Factory". Four singles were released from the album: "Just a Little More Love", "Love Don't Let Me Go", "People Come People Go" and "Give Me Something". "Love Don't
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woman who so clearly has you wrapped around her finger, "You were wrong for turning me on and on and on," Levine sings. "I'm waiting for something, always waiting / Feeling nothing, wondering if it'll ever change." Ultimately, he resigns himself to the fact that, "I have no defense / I know you're gonna get me in the end." The song received positive reviews from contemporary music critics. Ron Harris from the Associated Press wrote that the song "almost strays into disco territory with body-moving beat." He commented that the song "would not have been terribly out of place in
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"Forget About the World" was released as the second single from the album. Written by Gabrielle, Wolff, Dean, Barson, who wrote previous single, "Give Me a Little More Time", "Forget About the World" did not perform as well as its predecessor, peaking at 23 in UK. It was the lowest charting single from the album and the only single to miss the top 15. The third single "If You Really Cared" was written by Gabrielle, Wolff, Dean, Barson, who wrote previous single, "Give Me a Little More Time" and "Forget About the World", "If You Really Cared" returned Gabrielle to
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Give Me Something (Jarryd James song) "Give Me Something" is a single released from Australian singer-songwriter Jarryd James. The song was written and produced by Jarryd James and Joel Little. It was released digitally on 18 May 2015 and distributed by Universal Music Australia, with whom James signed a deal in early 2015. Lyrically, James sings about realising someone might not love you as much as you love them and scrambling for a piece of them. "Give Me Something" debuted at number 68 on the ARIA Singles Chart. Mike Wass of Idolator said; "'Give Me Something' is a heady rush
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Before the World Ends Notes Works cited Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie (1971) is the first collection of poems by African-American writer and poet, Maya Angelou. Many of the poems in "Diiie" were originally song lyrics, written during Angelou's career as a night club performer, and recorded on two albums before the publication of Angelou's first autobiography "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" (1969). Angelou considers herself a poet and a playwright, but is best known for her seven autobiographies. She began,
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Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie (1971) is the first collection of poems by African-American writer and poet, Maya Angelou. Many of the poems in "Diiie" were originally song lyrics, written during Angelou's career as a night club performer, and recorded on two albums before the publication of Angelou's first autobiography "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" (1969). Angelou considers herself a poet and a playwright, but is best known for her seven autobiographies. She began, early in her writing career, of alternating
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as a corresponding character to the X-Men, whose parents were, at that time, assumed to have been at the Manhattan Project. Stan [Lee, X-Men editor/co-creator] didn't give me any good reason [for rejecting the character] - he just didn't want to, I think... I didn't bring it up again, but when I came back to the book, with Neal Adams, I created Sunfire, who is pretty much the character I had wanted to do some years earlier. I didn't make him an X-Man right away. By that time, Stan gave me a little more free . In fact, he was
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little drunk/ I say what's on my mind/ I might do a little time. Cause all of my kindness/ Is taken for weakness." After the first chorus West sings, "Woke up an optimist/ Sun was shining, I'm positive/ Then I heard you was talking trash/ Hold me back/ I'm about to spazz." On the second chorus, he and Rihanna harmonize as they sing, "Now I'm four, five seconds from wylin'/ And we got three more days 'till Friday/ I'm just trying to make it back home by Monday morning." McCartney's voice can be heard sped up underneath West's opening vocals.
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meets somebody on an early morning flight and that person asks him what he does. He says he sings "country music mixed with a little rock and a little blues". The guy says he's never been crazy about that hillbilly stuff. Later, Trace asks the guy to attend a country music concert. He says that he'll give it a try but doubts it'll "change [his] opinion" upon telling him he'll be busy. Then, he realizes that night that the songs relate to him as well (e.g. "Songs about me and who I am / Songs about loving and living /
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Excuse Me Miss "Excuse Me Miss" is a song written and performed by American rapper Jay-Z. It released as a single for his seventh studio album "" (2002). It was also co-written and produced by The Neptunes, whose Pharrell Williams sings the hook in falsetto voice (uncredited). The lyrics refer to love at first sight. It contains a more mature sound in comparison of his previous songs about women such as "Girls, Girls, Girls" and "I Just Wanna Love U (Give It 2 Me)". The song samples both the 2001 hit, "Take You Out" by Luther Vandross as well as
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versions of the UK DVD were known to suffer from disc rot after a short period of time, where the playing surface becomes cloudy or forms a 'cracked' pattern. The record label offered free replacements to those who returned their damaged copies. Promotional advertisements for the DVD claimed that "Ultimate Kylie" would contain every video Minogue had released. However, several songs were not featured on the DVD. From her debut album "Kylie", "It's No Secret" was not featured. Most of her singles from "Let's Get To It" were missing, only having "Give Me Just A Little More Time" featured on
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had just become the first African-American male to win an EGOT – an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony. Legend has previously said of his intention to create a Christmas album, he said "I just made a new Christmas album. I've wanted to do this for a long time." On October 11, 2018, Legend premiered two lead singles from the album, "Bring Me Love" and "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" simultaneously on VEVO. Wonder features on the first song, "What Christmas Means to Me", in which he plays the harmonica, while Spalding sings on "Have Yourself a
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Luciana, where she sings about wanting to find that passion again, since she does not just stay. In the chorus, the girls sing, "Eu quero tanto seu beijo molhado Seus lábios de mel, Que me deixaram louca, Eu vou te dar um beijo molhado Eu sei que vou trazer Você pra mim." ("I want your wet kiss so much Your honey lips, That drove me crazy, I'm gonna give you a wet kiss, I know I'll bring you to me.") After the refrain, Patricia talks about not being able to sleep due to this intense passion. Fantine then sings, saying
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"Danja" Hills and Keri Hilson, while being produced by Danja. Spears started working with Danja in July 2006. He explained that the creative process was not difficult at first since he was "left to do pretty much whatever I wanted to", and "if she felt it, she was gonna ride with it. If she didn't, you’d see it in her face." Hilson said that she wrote the song with Spears in mind after Danja played her the instrumental, adding, "I just started singing, 'Give me, Give me,' and added a little more in and just having fun and messing around
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sings over a marimba-fueled percussive sway about a budding romance. "The club isn't the best place to find a lover, so the bar is where I go/ Me and my friends at the table doing shots drinking fast and then we talk slow", he sings. "Come over and start up a conversation with just me/ And trust me I'll give it a chance." According to "NT News", the song "tells the story of loved (or lusted) up Sheeran meeting a girl in a bar where he and his mates are doing shots." "Shape of You" is written in the key
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the material of that month. These included videos from Minogue's Anti Tour (also launched as a K25 treat), her performance at the 2012 Mardi Gras, an Abbey Road performance of "Slow" and "Come into My World", and a video chronology of "The Loco-Motion" in July, to mark the 25th birthday of the song. Of Minogue's 63 singles at the time, 49 five were chosen. These included "The Loco-Motion", "Hand on Your Heart", "Better the Devil You Know", "Give Me Just a Little More Time", "Confide in Me", "Spinning Around", "Can't Get You Out of My Head", "Slow", "2 Hearts", "All
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not difficult at first since he was "left to do pretty much whatever I wanted to", and "if she felt it, she was gonna ride with it. If she didn't, you'd see it in her face." Hilson wrote "Gimme More" with Spears in mind after Danja played her the instrumental, saying, "I just started singing, 'Give me, Give me' and added a little more in and just having fun and messing around really." Spears began recording with them at Studio at the Palms in Las Vegas in August 2006, while she was seven months pregnant with Jayden James. Recording continued
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to give me time to rest. I kept having chills. This was the middle of the summer and I was wearing a sheepskin jacket and I was chilling. I was shaking all over. Then, while sitting on a scaffolding with Maurice Evans, being lit for a special effects scene: They were setting an inky - that's a little tiny spot[light] that was supposed to be just flickering over my eyes. That flickering, flickering flickering made me feel weird. And I'm sitting on this platform up in the air...and I turned to Gibby, who was just down below, and I said,
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question, because I knew the J. Peters manual before; I had read it. It had been given to me to read and study, and I knew a man by the name of Steve Miller, but Steve Miller was an insignificant little fellow who used to help with mimeographing at party headquarters. He was attached to the New York County committee. He was assigned from time to time to teach communism to some of the teachers, kind of take individual teachers who were rising in the party movement and give them special instructions. I thought he was just an insignificant little
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"There’s a clue to Bloc Party’s radical new direction in the album title: lyrically, Hymns is a turn for the more spiritual. Out goes the angst; in come song titles such as 'Only He Can Heal Me' and an evangelical joyousness on the likes of 'The Good News' (although frontman Kele Okereke has denied the new material is explicitly religious). There is a parallel shift musically too. “Rock’n’roll has got so old/ Just give me neo-soul,” sings Okereke on 'Into the Earth', which is a fair description of the direction of travel. Where once Russell Lissack’s stinging guitar defined their
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Honey, Just Allow Me One More Chance "Honey, Just Allow Me One More Chance" is a song recorded by blues musician Henry "Ragtime Texas" Thomas in 1927, under the title "Honey, Won't You Allow Me One More Chance". It was covered by Bob Dylan on his 1963 album "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan". In 1962, Origin Jazz Library released the album "Henry Thomas Sings the Texas Blues". It included his "Honey, Won't You Allow Me One More Chance", which was presumably the source of Dylan's version. Todd Harvey, in his book "The Formative Dylan: Transmission and Stylistic Influences, 19611963", analyzes how
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the verge of a breakup, there's apparently still some sexual tension between them, which is perceived in lines such as "You ... touch me and it's breaking me down/ I'm telling you, let's just give it up and get down." Spears crescendos "So come on/Won't you give me something to remember/Baby shut your mouth and turn me inside out." during the chorus section, and then goes on to "Hit me one more time it's so amazing" and "You're the only one who's ever drove me crazy" referencing her first singles "...Baby One More Time" (1998) and "(You Drive Me) Crazy"
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Ron Dunbar Ronald Dunbar (April 15, 1939 – April 3, 2018) was an American songwriter, A&R director and record producer who worked closely with Holland-Dozier-Holland, and with George Clinton. His co-writing credits include the hit songs "Give Me Just a Little More Time", "Band of Gold", and "Patches", for which he won a Grammy. Born in Detroit, Michigan, he began working for Motown when it was formed in the late 1950s, and was first credited as a co-writer for the Valadiers' minor 1961 hit, "Greetings (This Is Uncle Sam)". He continued to work with songwriters and record producers Brian Holland,
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Clinton continued until 1980, when Dunbar returned to independent production. From 1998 he worked for Holland Group Productions, established by Edward Holland in Los Angeles. Ron Dunbar Ronald Dunbar (April 15, 1939 – April 3, 2018) was an American songwriter, A&R director and record producer who worked closely with Holland-Dozier-Holland, and with George Clinton. His co-writing credits include the hit songs "Give Me Just a Little More Time", "Band of Gold", and "Patches", for which he won a Grammy. Born in Detroit, Michigan, he began working for Motown when it was formed in the late 1950s, and was first credited
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interchangeability among the episodes from season to season. We wanted to create more continuing story arcs; we wanted to deepen the predicaments the characters are in, get the audience kind of rooting for something from week to week." In November 2002, negotiations were made for Connick to play a series regular on "Will & Grace"; he originally signed on for only 13 episodes. Jeff Zucker, who at the time served as President of NBC Entertainment, commented that creating a triangle between Will, Grace, and Leo was a "brilliant" way to give the series a new spark. He was confident that
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the top ten. While the first single from the album, "Word Is Out", became her first single to miss the top ten of the UK Singles Chart, subsequent singles "If You Were with Me Now" and "Give Me Just a Little More Time" both reached the top five. In support of the album, she embarked on the Let's Get to It Tour in October. She later expressed her opinion that she was stifled by Stock, Aitken and Waterman, saying, "I was very much a puppet in the beginning. I was blinkered by my record company. I was unable to look
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woman writer had expanded her life story into a third autobiography. She also published two volumes of poetry entitled "Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie" (1971), which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, and "Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well" (1975). According to writer Hilton Als, Angelou was one of the first African-American female writers to publicly discuss her personal life, and one of the first to use herself as a central character in her books. Writer Julian Mayfield, who calls "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" "a work of art
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also became her third number-one on the "Billboard" Digital Songs chart after "So What" (2008) and "Raise Your Glass" (2010). "Just Give Me a Reason" has sold more than 4 million digital downloads in the United States. "Just Give Me a Reason" has won the "Billboard" Mid-Year Award for Favorite Hot 100 No. Single. "Just Give Me a Reason" garnered two Grammy Award nominations for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance and Song of the Year at the 2014 Grammy Awards, where Pink and Nate Ruess performed the song after a trapeze-accompanied rendition of "Try." The music video for "Just Give Me
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gave it a positive review, saying along with "Give Me Just a Little More Time" and "What Do I Have to Do"; "were great songs and suddenly Kylie was a little bit cool." "Shocked" received moderate success throughout the charts. In Minogue's native Australia, the song debuted at number thirteen. The song then rose to number seven, where it eventually peaked. The song then fell out the top ten, and stayed in the charts for eleven weeks in total. In the United Kingdom, the song debuted at number ten on the UK Singles Chart. The song then ascended to number
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Fire & Fleet & Candlelight Fire & Fleet & Candlelight is the fourth album by Cree singer and songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie. More than its predecessor "Little Wheel Spin and Spin", it marked a significant departure from the simple folk songs of her first two albums. Following the same path that Joan Baez and Judy Collins were taking at the time, Sainte-Marie relies on the orchestration of Peter Schickele on "Summer Boy", "The Carousel" and "Hey Little Bird". In contrast, "The Circle Game" and "97 Men in This Town Would Give a Half a Grand in Silver Just to Follow Me
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ultimately a less-schmaltzy version of those male/female duets found at the end credits of every 80s movie." "HitFix" said One of the highlights is her duet with fun.'s Nate Ruess, who co-wrote "Just Give Me a Reason". In the United States, "Just Give Me a Reason" topped the iTunes chart on March 19, 2013 and remained atop the list for more than 10 consecutive days, becoming Pink's third Digital Songs number one hit. In early April, it fell to the runner-up position to Bruno Mars's "When I Was Your Man" only to return to the top two days later and
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'I got a head full of ideas/That are drivin' me insane,' he sings in the first verse, and given Dylan's prolific writing at the time, that's not hard to believe. In the last verse, he sings, 'I try my best/To be just like I am/But everybody wants you/To be just like them,' another comment that sounds sincere." "Maggie's Farm" is well known for being at the center of the fervor that surrounded Dylan after his electric set at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival; it was that set's performance of "Maggie's Farm," much faster and more aggressive than on the "Bringing
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heartbreak and disappointment over a previous relationship. In the chorus: "No te pido que traigas flores/ Tampoco que me des bombones/ Yo solo quiero una caricia/ Que me digas que tu me quieres." ("I'm not asking you to bring me flowers/ Nor to give me sweets/ I just want a caress/ That you tell me how much you love me.") she sings about how love is about actions and not gifts, and Lu has decided to forget her previous lover because her heart now has a "price" and an "owner." The first music video was shot in Lake Guatavita (some
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received a silver disc certification in the UK. The music video, liberally based on Kylie Minogue's video for her single "Give Me Just A Little More Time" (shot in the same location, 24 months earlier, in sepia tone), shows the band in a jazz cafe performing the song with people in the cafe joining in. The music video uses the 7" mix. The only difference between the 7" mix and the album version is that, there is a spoken part by Robbie Williams in the beginning of the album version that goes "Girl come over here let me hold you
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Automobile", "My Lovin' Henry", "Central, Give Me Back My Dime", "Gretchen", "Traveling", "When Mose With His Nose Leads the Band", "It's Up to You to Move", "Honey, Won't You Love Me Like You Used to?", "Come Take a Skate With Me", "Susan, Kiss Me Good and Hard", "Won't You Leave Your Happy Home For Me?", "Afloat On a Five Dollar Note", "Anxious" "Arrah Wanna", "Good-a-Bye John", "I'm Thinkin' Bout You Honey All the Time", "Won't You Throw a Kiss To Me", "I'm Keeping My Love-Lamp Burning For You", "Lovin' Time", "And a Little Bit More", "Every Little Bit, Added to
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on 15 September 2007. It was also released as the first single in the United States on 15 April 2008. According to Goodrem, she wrote the song just after Christmas. Stuart Crichton co-wrote the song and wanted the singer to use her well-known letter ending "Love & Light" in a song. In the start of the chorus, Goodrem sings: "You give me love," "You give me light" Goodrem told "The Daily Telegraph" that she needed to deal with personal demons and feelings first to be able to write a song like "In This Life". According to her biography on her
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music had become a song and if the author of the verses were my age, somebody whowas born – like me – after his death... I played to music to Giuliano, who decided to give me such beautiful verses... This little work of mine has no claim to be exhaustive nor even to explain Pasolini... This disc is just a set of images, which I hope will come from the sounds to stimulate to reread (or – for the youngest – to discover for the first time) pages and universal images fulloof disruptive force, even today, and perhaps even today
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of album's "noticeable missteps", an interpolation of "I Like It Like That" by Salt-N-Pepa and a sample from "Get Ready for This" by 2 Unlimited. Waterman stated: "I went to bed, and, and I literally was in bed thinking of all these records that I had in my life [...] I was going through the library mentally thinking, what song would she never have done that we could do that was just a great song. And one of my favorite songs was Chairman of the Board's 'Give Me Just a Little More Time.'" He was working in the middle of
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Alabama–Florida State line. He sent me a little love both when he changed the lyrics to call the bar owner "LuLu" and when he asked me if I wanted to play the bar owner in the video. I mused for just a second, thinking…hmmm… a woman who owns a bar, drinking a beer, jumps up on the stage and sings with the band. It wasn't much of a stretch! I had crazy fun shooting the video but I'm glad I have my day job!" Kenny Chesney held a free concert at the Flora-Bama August 16, 2014 to promote his new
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with the first There Is No Competition, it was more like [me] just rapping and spitting but, this one I wanted a little more energy just because coming off of Soul Tape, that was like my perspective flows, slower beats, and stuff like that so I wanted to give the Ying to the Yang. I wanted to give these niggas some ignorant [shit] but still bars." Fabolous also explained why TINC3 would be the final chapter in the mixtape series, saying: "I think that's what happens with movies sometimes with the 'Jason Part…' 9s, 10s you [end up] losing a
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birds coming out after a thunderstorm," whereas "Pluto" stands for death. The singer has also described "Pluto" as about "being plastered, that need to destroy everything so you can start again". Lyrically, it has been described as "sparse." Björk sings: "Excuse me/But I just have to/Explode/Explode this body/Off me/I'll be brand new/Brand new tomorrow/A little bit tired/But brand new." Some critics considered the lyrics to be about the contemplation of suicide. Discussing the track, Sheila Whiteley wrote: "as anyone who has been through personal trauma knows only too well, rejuvenation often involves a nightmare journey." Björk's official website also stated
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13, 2006, it was delayed to December 15, 2006. The action sequence, which involved the train crashing into police cars, was also delayed to January 8, 2007 and was filmed in an area just north of Greenville. The song that was used to link the scene where T-Bag leaves Ness City with the Hollanders and the following scene with C-Note in the diner is "Give Me Just a Little More Time". Towards the end of the episode where Haywire falls to his death, the song playing is "Home" by Alexi Murdoch. Another Murdoch song, "Orange Sky", was played during the
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nothing's firm." Mitchell instead chose to forgo his senior year and entered the NFL Draft in early January 2001. He stated, "I have had a great time, but it's time for me to give something back to my family." Mitchell said he would be quieter in the NFL: "You won't hear no more trash talking from Freddie Mitchell, those are the big boys, I'm just a little kid again. I'm humble." He had 119 catches for 2,135 yards and 10 touchdowns in his career as a Bruin. After Mitchell declared for the 2001 NFL Draft, one NFL scout told the
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with Kelly and waited until he got permission from Kelly's label before airing the track. In the mid-tempo ballad, Kelly accuses his detractors of rushing to judgement, criticizes women for dependence on men, asks the media to give him a break, and begs for a little human tenderness ("Heaven, I need a hug/ Is there anybody out there willing to embrace a thug?" goes the chorus). Kelly sings, "I gave 13 years of my life to this industry/ Hit song or not, I've given all of me/ You smile in my face and tell me you love me/ But then
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favorite lyric from "Glitter", and described it as an "emotional and heart-wrenching ballad". On November 16, 2001, Carey sang the song on a special titled "A Home For The Holidays With Mariah Carey", which aired on December 21 of that same year. The special featured additional performances by Destiny's Child, Josh Groban, Enrique Iglesias and Mandy Moore. In the live performance, Carey sang a different lyric in the bridge. While the track sings "you could have had the decency to give me up before you gave me life", Carey sings "...give me up the day you gave me life" in
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Seduction: Sinatra Sings of Love Seduction: Sinatra Sings of Love is a 2009 double disc compilation album by American singer Frank Sinatra. Released by Rhino just in time for Valentine's Day 2009, Seduction: Sinatra Sings of Love is a good collection of 22 highlights—with an additional ten cuts on the two-disc "deluxe" edition—from Sinatra's Reprise recordings. While there are surely some hits here -- "Some Enchanted Evening," "They Can't Take That Away from Me," "I Get A Kick Out of You," "I've Got You Under My Skin"—what's noteworthy about this collection is that it is not just a recycling of
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in their rendition of "Ain't That Just Like Me", where Curtis sings the lead vocal, and Jackson chimes in with the recurring chorus. As well as playing drums he introduced all manner of percussion including: tom-toms, castanets, cowbells, bongos and Spanish bells. The band's members took turns singing lead vocals, which allowed them to give longer and more frequent sets than most of their competitors. This would later be one of the triggers for Curtis' habit of substance abuse: taking drugs to stay awake and then to induce sleep. The Searchers briefly rivaled the Beatles for popularity, having international hits
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to do a feature. Having such a huge superstar be a part of this is truly amazing and a huge honour." The song peaked at number 9 on the Australian Dance Chart and number 58 on the overall Australian Singles Chart, and number 7 in Belgium dance bubbling under chart. Mike Wass of Idolator reviewed the song, saying; "“Give me wings, make me fly,” sings the Dutch dance queen over fluttery synths before arriving at the fast and furious chorus, which basically consists of her repeating: “do it one more time for this girl!” T.I shows up towards the end
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which begins with a subtle vocal harmony set atop a woman's metronomic panting; it carries on a short while before Björk starts singing her verses, as a choir joins her, filling the background with cathedral-resonant harmonies. Björk sings "When in doubt: give / When in doubt: give / When in doubt: give", providing contrast to an "alarming" groove. The "short confessional anthem" sung a cappella "Show Me Forgiveness" follows, having no other effect than a slight echo applied to her voice. She sings: "Show me forgiveness / For having lost faith in myself / And let my own interior up
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of soul-tinged, retro-leaning pop — albeit with an extremely modern twist. Jarryd begs the object of his affection for a little more affection over squiggly synths and squelchy beats. There's a splash of Prince, a touch of Chet Faker and a large serve of something completely original." Wass believes the song is "just as good — if not better than — his breakthrough hit". Indie Trendsetters said; "Outrageously spunky, punchy, with bold accents and a serious wow factor, Jarryd James hits a magnificent stride with 'Give Me Something'. The organ is skipping, the bass is blaring and Jarryd’s beat-driven falsetto
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Cry A Little Longer have been covered by several artists. Let's Talk About Girls was covered by The Undertones, The Pretty Things, The Hypstrz -- and German girl group The Brood (who appropriately renamed it Let's Tslk About Boys). Cry A Little longer has been released as video by groups including Imperial State Electric, Yard Trauma and Better Men Than You. (It's True) What They Say About Love/Have Your Cake (Impression 114, July 1967) Give Me Some Time/same (Splitsound 4, December 1967) Sand/Give Me Some Time (as Spring Fever), (Splitsound 8, June 1968) The Grodes The Grodes, sometimes known as
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structure that we got listening to the track. I was part of the "in-house" team that was being developed at the time. It wound up being a heck of an opportunity for newer writers, like myself and to some other people in getting their careers developed. When I say "newer" I mean people that had some experience but nowhere near the success of the HDH team. It was a great treat to be under the umbrella of H-D-H. Lamont Dozier's recollection differs: Brian [Holland] and I came up with "Band of Gold" and "Give Me Just a Little More Time",
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acceptability, reducing its shock value and giving it a more jocular, relaxed connotation. Singapore considered a title change to "The Spy Who Shioked Me" ("shiok" means "to feel good"). The movie's soundtrack contains the 1999 hit "Beautiful Stranger" by Madonna. The song won a Grammy Award in 2000. Mike Myers appears as Austin Powers in the video, directed by Brett Ratner. Dr. Evil also sings a parody of Will Smith's popular 1997 cover of the Grover Washington Jr. classic "Just the Two of Us", referring in this case to his clone Mini-Me. The film's soundtrack had a rating of three
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the Duke Ellington Orchestra in 1955, appearing on many of Ellington's recordings, including "Such Sweet Thunder" and "Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook", both from 1957, as well as the historic 1956 Newport Jazz Festival session. He stayed with the Orchestra until 1960, when he left to live in Europe. Jimmy Woode's song "Just Give Me Time" was covered by Carola in 1966, first released on her album "Carola & Heikki Sarmanto Trio", reaching the Finnish charts in 2004. An original member of The Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big Band, in 1995 he also toured with Lionel Hampton's Golden Men
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Like It Like That". During this time, Minogue was fascinated by club music. Although her music was always played in commercial clubs, the pop element of her earlier works made the "cooler clubs" tend to "frown upon" her music. Minogue then created the alias "Angel K" for herself and released white label promotional vinyls of tracks including "Do You Dare" and "Closer"; both of the songs later appeared as B-sides on "Give Me Just a Little More Time and "Finer Feelings", respectively. Nathan Wood from Foxtel's MaxTV called the song "surprising" and claimed it "signaled Kylie's change from a pop
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lot culture, especially when it comes to music, and I just wanted to give that history, that sound, and I wanted them to know that we’re originators of a lot, a lot of sounds that have influenced Hip Hop, and I really wanted to incorporate that into my personal sound and give that to the world. And I definitely want people to take away knowing a little bit more about me as a man, as an artist, what I represent, what I stand for, and just what I bring to Hip Hop. What I bring to Hip Hop is that
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song a positive review, stating: "As chart-friendly EDM continues to reach the furthest corners of the globe, staying ahead of the pack can prove a tricky task – especially when more and more acts arrive on the scene turning out mixes with identikit build-ups, tired lyrics and uninspired breakdowns that newcomers to the arena lap up with excitement. Kudos to Avicii then, who has dared to try something a little different for his latest offering. "So wake me up when it's all over/ When I'm wiser and I'm older," featured artist Aloe Blacc sings over dialled-up, country-flecked guitar strums that
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am a female'." Other themes of "Just a Girl" display Stefani's exasperation over stereotypical female portrayals; Stefani sings: "Don't you think I know exactly where I stand? / This world is forcing me to hold your hand". She gathered examples from her sister and female friends of how being "just a girl" is patronizing. Through "sustained sarcasm", she sings: "I'm just a girl in the world / That's all that you'll let me be / I'm just a girl, all pretty and petite / So don't let me have any rights". Critiques of "Just a Girl" during its release era
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to have "two monumental hatreds: fliers and movie people". After one argument Wellman retorted to the commander, "You're just a goddamn fool because the government has told me you have to give me all your men and do just exactly what I want you to do." Although Wellman paid much attention to technical details in shooting, he used cars and clothing of the year during the filming, forgetting to use those of World War I. He took six weeks to fully edit the film and prepare it for release. Whereas most Hollywood productions of the day took little more than
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was very wonderful when the audience all stood up, and the princes also, to sing 'Give a Little Bit' with me. That was a magical moment." "Give a Little Bit" can also be found on Hodgson's album "Classics Live", a collection of his live performances from acoustic, band and orchestra shows recorded on tour in 2010. After Hodgson's departure from Supertramp, the band included the song for the first time in their set list in 2002 during their One More For The Road Tour. The song was sung by Jesse Siebenberg. They also played the song in their 70-10 Tour
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gonna give you more. Every album I'm just gonna try to give you more of me, and what I think about certain things... This album is just gonna be the first album on some out of this world crack, basically". In an interview for "The Village Voice", he discussed his use of melody, repetition, and hooks, relating it to child discipline, saying that "Americans are not the biggest listeners. I didn't listen, which is why my granddaddy beat me half the time. It's only when the belt is swinging at you in the same repetitive manner that you actually start
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done with pleasing you/ I'm so over needing you, all this space just gave me room so I could fly," she sings over mid-tempo electronic beats. "Let It Be Me" is a melancholic string-backed ballad, featuring Spanish guitar and passionate Latin sensibility. "When they ask who do you love, let it be me… let it be me that you think of," she pleads. The ninth track "Worry No More" features Rick Ross and was produced by Detail, being considered "the album's hardest hip-hop anthem." The "reverb-filled" down-tempo track has intelligible background whispers creeping in and out and vocal effects, adding
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Keys sings about being a brand new version of herself, where nobody has control of her mind, heart and soul. On her official website, the singer wrote: "Brand new me is about the journey it takes to get to a place where you are proud to be a new you." She sings over the soft piano melody: "It's , I'm not who I was before/You look surprised your words don't burn me anymore/Been meaning to tell ya, but I guess it's plain to see/Don't be mad, it's just a brand-new kinda me/Can't be bad, I've found a brand-new kinda free."
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be close to him, acting out of character and falling for him more with each day. "Oh I can't wait to get next to you/ Oh I just can't leave you alone/ Boy you got me doing things that I would never do," she sings. In the chorus, she emphasizes that the guy is only one who makes her feel in love and turned on, "Only u can make me feel and only u can take me there," she chants. "Only U" received generally favorable reviews from music critics. Hattie Collins of "The Guardian" called it "a deliciously dark song."
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– just to know I was going to sleep a million years more ... I can "at times" feel strong the beauties, you describe, in themselves, & for themselves – but more frequently "all things" appear little – all the knowledge, that can be acquired, child's play – the universe itself – what but an immense heap of "little" things? ... My mind feels as if it ached to behold & know something "great" – something "one" & "indivisible" – and it is only in the faith of this that rocks or waterfalls, mountains or caverns give me the sense
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Try Me One More Time Try Me One More Time is an album by David Bromberg. It was released by Appleseed Recordings on February 27, 2007. It was Bromberg's first studio album in almost 18 years, since 1989's "Sideman Serenade". On "Try Me One More Time", Bromberg sings and plays acoustic guitar, unaccompanied by other musicians. The tracks include 15 cover tunes, plus one original composition, the title cut. "Try Me One More Time" received a 2008 Grammy Award nomination in the category of Best Traditional Folk Album. In "Rolling Stone", David Fricke wrote enthusiastically, "The fluid, orchestral invention of
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her rape at the age of eight, as recounted in her first autobiography "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings", she dealt with her trauma by memorizing and reciting great works of literature, including poetry, which helped bring her out her self-imposed muteness. Angelou recorded two albums of poetry and songs she wrote during her career as a night club performer; the first in 1957 for Liberty Records and the second "The Poetry of Maya Angelou", for GWP Records the year before the publication of her first autobiography "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" (1969). They were later incorporated
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reviews. An example of this was the song's opening number, "I Won't Give Up". Saskin wrote that "Rachel sings Jason Mraz, like everything else, beautifully", while "Rolling Stone" Erica Futterman credits her for having made a "sappy ballad mildly more tolerable". Strecker gave the performance a "B+" grade and called it a "classic Berry power ballad"; "B" grades were given by Slezak and "Washington Post" Jen Chaney, who also noted Rachel's "vocal power". "Because You Loved Me" performed by Tina as Rachel received the most consistently positive reviews, though both Chaney, who gave the song an and Strecker, who graded
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his lyrics, Harrison sings of his desire to be free of karma and the constant cycle of rebirth; he later described the song as "a prayer and personal statement between me, the Lord, and whoever likes it". Harrison performed "Give Me Love" at every concert during his rare tours as a solo artist, and a live version was included on his 1992 album "Live in Japan". The original studio recording appears on the compilation albums "The Best of George Harrison" (1976) and "" (2009). At the Concert for George tribute to Harrison, in November 2002, Jeff Lynne performed "Give Me
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hook, where the group sings repeatedly the phrase "Give it to me, I'm worth it", backed by heavy bassline and "trappy beats" Followed by Kid Ink's rapped verse, Emilee Linder of MTV noted he insists that they "bring it back like they left something". The member Dinah Jane then is introduced, backgrounded with handclaps, Normani Kordei performs the pre-chorus (which is then performed by Ally Brooke after the second verse), while the second verse is sung by Camila Cabello, who delivers the song's most suggestive lines, "Come harder just because/I don't like it, like it too soft/I like it a
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Britney Spears was something else—an inflection point in the culture". The music video is also referenced in the music video of Spears's 2000 single, "Stronger" where Spears sings, "My loneliness ain't killing me no more" - a reference to "...Baby One More Time" where she sings, "My loneliness is killing me." The music video is also referenced in the 2009 single, "If U Seek Amy". After she comes out of the house dressed as a housewife, her daughter is dressed with a similar schoolgirl outfit while wearing pink ribbons in her hair. The video was ranked at number four on
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something I’ve been thinking about for quite some time now and it’s just the right place and time for me to move on to other things and projects." In a later interview, Leighton explained the breakup a little bit more: "It's quite simple, the two original band members don't want to put out music together anymore. Simple as that." "Right before we went on the farewell tour, about a week before we went, it kind of just came to heads with me and Steve, the two dudes that started the band. And so that was a little bit not what
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singer to 1980s Welsh rocker Bonnie Tyler in delivering the vocals with a mixture of anger, pain and pathos. According to "Paste" magazine, cinematic strings "serve as fitting counterpoint to [the song's] heartbroken, hollowed-out lyrics." "Turning Tables" opens with a piano sequence after which Adele sings the first lines: "Close enough to start a war/All that I have is on the floor". The chorus consists of the lyrics: "So I won't let you / Close enough to hurt me / No, I won't rescue / You to just desert me / I can't give you / The heart you think
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"This is Love" which focuses on a guy that "got [Rowland] goin’ on cloud 9". Over the light production, Rowland sings "I’m waiting and anticipating for you to give it to me / Boy I’m trying to hold it inside / Heart racing, my body shaking / ‘Cause when you give it to me, boy you are the truth, I can’t lie." According to the "Honesty Hour", "This is Love" had crossover appear for both R&B and pop radio. "Street Life" sees Rowland opt for a "no BS" attitude. She sings about how "chasing fast money takes precedence over self-improvement"
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got a lot more to it. I think some people didn’t like it because they felt it was a remake, not a sequel... I suppose it’s the old question of whether you like "Rio Bravo" or "El Dorado" better? They’re essentially the same movie. They both had their strengths and weaknesses. I don’t know–you never know why a movie’s going to make it or not. People didn’t want to see "Escape" that time, but they really didn’t want to see "The Thing"... You just wait. You’ve got to give me a little while. People will say, you know, what was
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first flush of youth." According to Lopez, "The truth is it really is just about a feeling — the feeling of falling, of falling in love, the feeling of you've found the one, or that this person that you're with, you wish you would've met them years ago," she said. "So for me it was less about telling a story, and more about capturing that feeling." In the beginning, she sings: "And I wasn't looking for someone new / Til you came down / Giving me the best the time I've had." During the chorus, she admits: "I wish you
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the material but also knows its history inside and out. Yet, his heart just doesn't seem to be into it... Throughout the set, the warm intimacy that is established by his solo arrangements is undone by the lack of passion in his vocals... Still, there is a quiet beauty that lurks beneath the surface of the collection, and it comes to the forefront on the instrumentals 'Buck Dancer's Choice' and 'Hey Bub'. In the end, though, there's little on "Try Me One More Time" that leaves much of a lasting impression." Musicians: Production: Try Me One More Time Try Me
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lifelong best friend, who sings the first line in the bridge ("Every night, on my knees, I pray..."), had suffered for three years from health problems related to alcoholism and sickle-cell disease. By the time "Just My Imagination" was cut, Paul Williams' contributions to the Temptations' recordings had been reduced, and the group had Otis Williams' old associate Richard Street lined up as Paul Williams' replacement. As for Kendricks, he was eventually replaced by Damon Harris, who would be featured in the group's 1972 hit "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone". Motown released "Just My Imagination" as a single on their
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Skewes formed a new version of the Vibrants with Bob Flynn on bass guitar and Penny Parsons on vocals. They released two singles on the Air label, "I Can't Let Go of Your Love" (July 1970), which peaked at No. 41 on the "Go-Set" Top 60, and "Give Me Just a Little More Time" (1971). Ken Leroy (ex-John Rupert Group) replaced Flynn on bass guitar, and Trevor Courtney (ex-Chants R&B, Cam-Pact) replaced Kent on drums. At the end of 1971 the group disbanded. In 1972 Courtney and Skewes founded Skylight with Mike Clarke on bass guitar and guitar, Greg Cook
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as the third single off the album instead, and the track was specially remixed for single release. The 1999 biographical book "Girl Next Door" identified this track as Kylie's favourite to perform live. The single artwork was photographed by Robert Erdmann. "What Do I Have To Do?" received very positive reviews from many music critics. While reviewing the album "Rhythm of Love" (1990), Chris True from Allmusic highlighted the song as an album standout. While reviewing "Ultimate Kylie", Mark Edwards from Stylus Magazine gave it a positive remark, saying along with "Shocked", "Give Me Just a Little More Time"; "were
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alias for herself as "Angel K," set about releasing white label promotional vinyl's of tracks included "Do You Dare" and "Closer", both of the songs later appeared as B-sides on "Give Me Just a Little More Time" and "Finer Feelings", respectively. At this stage, the album was a contractual obligation as the last of four studio albums on her contract, as Minogue remained unsure whether to continue with PWL until after the release of the album's final single "Finer Feelings". Following her release from PWL, she stated that she felt stifled by Stock, Aitken and Waterman, saying, "I was very
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