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You Never Even Called Me by My Name "You Never Even Called Me by My Name" is a song written and recorded by Steve Goodman and John Prine; and recorded by country music singer David Allan Coe. It was the third single release of Coe's career, included on his album "Once Upon a Rhyme". The song was Coe's first Top Ten hit, reaching a peak of number eight on the "Billboard" country singles charts. The song, over five minutes long, is known for its humorous self-description as "the perfect country and western song." The song is a satirical response and
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You Never Even Called Me by My Name "You Never Even Called Me by My Name" is a song written and recorded by Steve Goodman and John Prine; and recorded by country music singer David Allan Coe. It was the third single release of Coe's career, included on his album "Once Upon a Rhyme". The song was Coe's first Top Ten hit, reaching a peak of number eight on the "Billboard" country singles charts. The song, over five minutes long, is known for its humorous self-description as "the perfect country and western song." The song is a satirical response and
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You Never Even Called Me by My Name "You Never Even Called Me by My Name" is a song written and recorded by Steve Goodman and John Prine; and recorded by country music singer David Allan Coe. It was the third single release of Coe's career, included on his album "Once Upon a Rhyme". The song was Coe's first Top Ten hit, reaching a peak of number eight on the "Billboard" country singles charts. The song, over five minutes long, is known for its humorous self-description as "the perfect country and western song." The song is a satirical response and
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songwriter Steve Goodman, who stated the song he had written was the "perfect country and western song." Coe wrote back stating that no song could fit that description without mentioning a laundry list of clichés: "mama, or trains, or trucks, or prison, or getting drunk." Goodman's equally facetious response was an additional verse that incorporated all five of Coe's requirements, and upon receiving it, Coe acknowledged the finished product was indeed the "perfect country and western song" and included the last verse on the record: I was drunk the day my mom got out of prisonAnd I went to pick
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has also released three recordings of tribute performances by Goodman's friends. Between 1971 and 1980, singer-songwriter Steve Goodman recorded first on the Buddah label, then on Asylum. During this time he wrote and recorded such enduring songs as "City of New Orleans", a 1972 Top 20 hit for Arlo Guthrie and a 1984 #1 Hot Country Single for Willie Nelson; and "You Never Even Call Me By My Name", which was made famous by David Allan Coe in 1974. Following the release of the album "Hot Spot" in 1980, his contract with Asylum ended and Goodman moved to Seal Beach,
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a number-one hit, and responsible for Coe becoming one of Nashville's hottest songwriters and Coe himself being signed by Columbia Records. Coe recorded his own version of the song for his second Columbia album, "Once Upon a Rhyme", released in 1975. AllMusic writer Thom Jurek said of the song, "The amazing thing is that both versions are definitive." Johnny Cash covered the song in his album "" in 2000.The album also contained a cover of Steve Goodman and John Prine's "You Never Even Called Me by My Name", which was a top-10 "Billboard" hit, and was followed by a string
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hit. Lyrically, the French, Dutch and Hebrew versions bear no resemblance to Goodman's original lyrics. According to Goodman, the song was inspired by a train trip he and his wife took from Chicago to Mattoon, Illinois. According to the liner notes on the Steve Goodman anthology "No Big Surprise", "City of New Orleans" was written while on the campaign trail with Senator Edmund Muskie. In 1974, singer David Allan Coe achieved considerable success on the country charts with Goodman's and John Prine's "You Never Even Called Me by My Name", a song which good-naturedly spoofed stereotypical country music lyrics. Prine
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Prine's first to be charted in the US Top 100 by "Billboard", reflecting growing commercial success. It was produced by Steve Cropper. Many veteran Prine fans view the release of 1978's "Bruised Orange" as a creative highpoint. The Steve Goodman-produced album gave listeners songs such as "The Hobo Song," "Sabu Visits the Twin Cities Alone," and the title track. In 1974, singer David Allan Coe achieved considerable success on the country charts with "You Never Even Called Me By My Name", co-written by Prine and Goodman. The song good-naturedly spoofs stereotypical country music lyrics. Prine refused to take a songwriter's
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'er up in the rainBut before I could get to the station in my pickup truckShe got runned over by a damned ol' train Goodman and Prine's versions had a different list in the final verse. "You Never Even Called Me by My Name" is accompanied mainly by resonator guitar, pedal steel guitar and electric guitar. "You Never Even Called Me by My Name" by David Allan Coe spent seventeen weeks on the "Billboard" country singles charts, peaking at number eight. In 1994, Doug Supernaw recorded included a new version of the song on his second studio album, "Deep Thoughts
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song was a nursery rhyme that I wrote for her. Teddi Jo said, 'Dad, how come you never use my name in one of your songs?' My youngest daughter's name is Justice, so she said 'You used Justice, and you used Michelle' – because Michelle's middle name is Suzanne – 'so I want you to write me a special song.' So I wrote 'Rooty Toot Toot' as a nursery rhyme. It didn't even have music. I showed it to Larry (Crane) and he said, 'That's a good little, uplifting story' – so we arranged it into a song and put
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song "The Fightin' Side of Me"); Coe also uses loose impersonations of each artist in doing so, and also makes reference to Faron Young's "Hello Walls" in the background vocals, noting that "you" (industry executives) "don't have to call me" any of those names anymore. In the third verse, Coe notes "the only time I know I'll hear David Allan Coe is when Jesus has his final Judgment Day," noting that he never expected the industry to recognize him by his individual merits. In a spoken epilogue preceding the song's iconic closing verse, Coe relates a correspondence he had with
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fad dances of the 1960s. The song is noted for the spoken recitation heard in the introduction which goes: "You broke my heart / 'Cause I couldn't dance / You didn't even want me around / And now I'm back / To let you know / I can really shake 'em down" The song is noted for its false ending at 2:26. Berry Gordy wrote "Do You Love Me" with the intention that The Temptations, who had no Top 40 hits to their name yet, would record it. However, when Gordy wanted to locate the group and record the song,
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produced; an episode usually had at least two "Colargol" episodes spliced together. "Barnaby" was repeated on a number of occasions between 1973 and 1979. The theme song ran as follows: "Barnaby the Bear's my name, never Call me Jack or James," "I will sing my way to fame, Barnaby the Bear's my name." "Birds taught me to sing when they took me to their king" "First I had to fly in the sky so high so high so high so high so high, so..." "If you want to sing this way, think of what you want to say," "Add a
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December 2009-February 2010. In an interview with "Rolling Stone" magazine, Mayer said, "I never got an e-mail. I never got a phone call. I was really caught off-guard, and it really humiliated me at a time when I'd already been dressed down. I mean, how would you feel if, at the lowest you've ever been, someone kicked you even lower?" Mayer also insulted Swift as a songwriter, saying it was "cheap songwriting." When Swift was asked about the rumors, she shot them down, but not exactly saying that the song wasn't about Mayer. "How presumptuous! I never disclose who my
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Tour, she described the meaning "Hero" had to her and her fans: "I wrote a song a while back even before "One Sweet Day" and it was not my favorite song in the world, but I wrote it. Someone asked me to write a song and they told me the story, and you know it was kind of a moving concept or whatever. And I did it, and I was like you know it’s not necessarily what I like per se, but after doing the song over and over again and having people coming up to and saying, thank you
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anyway, he recorded it, and it was by far the biggest thing that had ever happened to me in my life." Although he never met Elvis Presley, Daniels did meet his daughter, Lisa Marie, at an event in Memphis: "I just got to tell her, I said, 'You know your dad picked one of my songs. I was a big fan.'" Bob Johnston, who wrote the song with Daniels, was writing under the name "Joy Byers" and "Joe Byers" at the time. Daniels was credited as "Charles E. Daniels". It Hurts Me "It Hurts Me" is a 1964 Top 40
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a dominant female who nurses a broken heart of her lover as she sings "Let me kiss it and make it better/After tonight you will forget her". However, Lords later stated she initially wrote it about a drug addiction: "You will forget her" was always about "Forget your heroin." It was never about a person. When I wrote it, it didn't even cross my mind. But then, yeah, sure, later, I thought, "Let me kiss it - and I went, "Oh, ****!" But that's not where I was coming from. It really wasn't. Now I see it, it has all
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number-one country hit, "Lizzie and the Rainman", performed better on the pop chart. Coe later recorded the song as the b-side to his 1975 single "You Never Even Called Me by My Name." In 1975, a version by veteran Australian singer Judy Stone reached into the top 5 of the Australian pop charts. Willie Nelson recorded the song on his 1983 album, "Take It to the Limit". In 2000, Johnny Cash covered the song on his album, "". Alf Robertson covered the song in 1978, in Swedish as "Jennifers frågor". Would You Lay with Me (In a Field of Stone)
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can even see me... But you can't touch me... do you recognize my voice?... It's Madonna. Often imitated, but never duplicated. Or, should I say, often irritated? If you feel like it, you can download the sound file of my new single "Secret", from my new album, "Bedtime Stories", which comes out next month. I just shot the video in New York, and will be premiering an exclusive sample of it online. So check back soon. In the meantime, why don't you post me a message and let me know what you think of my new song. And by the
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to "Cry Me a River"; she denied the rumors, explaining, "You know, it's funny. I read that I wrote this song and I wrote these lyrics and that's not my style. I would never do that." Annet Artani, who co-wrote Spears' 2003 song "Everytime", stated that the song was written as a response to "Cry Me a River". When asked during an interview with Diane Sawyer on "PrimeTime" in 2003, if "Everytime" was about Timberlake, Spears responded, "I'll let the song speak for itself." "Cry Me a River" is an R&B song with an instrumentation that features clavinet, guitars, beatboxing,
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Call My Name (album) Call My Name is the seventh studio album by American blues artist, Etta James. The album was released on Cadet Records in 1966 and was produced by Leonard Chess. "Call My Name" was the second of a series of albums James would release that mainly consisted on Soul music. It included one song that charted on Rhythm and Blues chart, "I Prefer You," that reached #42. The other two singles spawned from the release ("Don't Pick Me for Your Fool" and "Call My Name") did not chart, becoming James's first album that did not release a
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Overland Theater in Boston in 1976. In 1984, the song "Blow Me (You Hardly Even Know Me)" was the first single ever released by Stevens as "Red Peters," as a 45rpm single. He co-wrote the song with Ed Grenga (a.k.a. "Babe Marino"), who also gave Stevens the stage name "Red Peters." As Peters told Outer Shell Magazine, "My music director, Babe Marino, and I were messing around with a big band arrangement one day and the words just flowed out. We brought the scratch recording to a party that night and people went shithouse for it. We went on to
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only boy who ever knew the truth about me... I knew a boy who left me so ravaged/do you even know the extent of the damage? ... I’m overwhelmed and undersexed?/Baby what did you expect?/I’m overwrought and so disgraced/I’m too ashamed to show my face/And they’re coming to take me away now/what I want I will never have/I’m on the Pacific Coast Highway/With your gun in my hand". In its week of release it became the most added song to modern rock radio in the United States. An AOL exclusive acoustic performance video of the track was released as a
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she has ever heard, and added that "I don't even want to tell you what the play count is in my iTunes for that song, but the moment you press play you're sucked in." "The Village Voice"s Maura Johnston deemed it as an "utterly earwormy" song. "RedEye"s Emily Van Zandt began her review of the track saying, "screw you, Internet. Thanks to a couple of posts on blogs that I refuse to own up to following, my afternoon has been dedicated to Carly Rae Jepsen's 'Call Me Maybe'." Van Zandt continued to state that "all I know is that I
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conventions. In my opinion, flight is not the right course, even if it should bring us to safety. It is impossible for a person, having been born into this world, not to die; but for one who has reigned it is intolerable to be a fugitive. May I never be deprived of this purple robe, and may I never see the day when those who meet me do not call me empress. If you wish to save yourself, my lord, there is no difficulty. We are rich; over there is the sea, and yonder are the ships. Yet reflect for
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makes a brief appearance during the bridge. Lyrically, the song is a message of defiance to a former lover, with Lovato confidently singing such lines as, "Even if the stars and moon collide, I never want you back into my life." The song is set in the key of G major. Lovato originally wrote the song as a breakup song. She wanted to make it a more empowering song. Lovato said in an interview, "I wanted to make it more empowering. When I thought of the lyrics 'really don’t care', it made me think of bullying, and made me think
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features a "tinkling piano" melody and light R&B beat. Written by Ester Dean, Big Sean and produced by Chauncey "Hit-Boy" Hollis, the lyrics of the song see Rowland tells her man exactly what she wants with lines such as "I wanna just kiss you now, I wanna just touch you now, I wanna just give you all my love tonight." Big Sean follows with equally sexual lines like "The king of California kings/ You gotta call me sire/ Watch me lay it down/ And I ain't even tired." "Lay It on Me" debuted on June 14, 2011, through various online
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Sheridan to join him on his tours. Coe's hits include “You Never Even Call Me By My Name”, “Willie, Waylon, And Me” and "Longhaired Redneck". Eli Radish Band The Eli Radish Band were pioneers of "outlaw country" and "alt-country" music. Deana Adams said in her 2003 rock history book "Rock 'n' roll and the Cleveland connection": The group signed with Capitol Records in 1969 and released their only album "I Didn't Raise My Boy To Be A Soldier" which featured updating of World War I & II era type patriotic/anti-war songs. After recording for Capitol Records, then Olympia Records and
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currency of payment for fanzine contributors; you wrote, and in the next issue got to read about what you had written. Today I can see my name on a full-page ad for a movie with disinterest, but what Harry Warner or Buck Coulson had to say about me — well, that was important." "Yandro's" title came from the works of Manly Wade Wellman, who took it from the traditional folk song "He's Gone Away." Yandro is the name of a mountain in North Carolina, whose exact location has been lost. Some believe Yandro (the mountain) never existed at all, and
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a song written over it I totally fell in love with this version and I think he's super talented." Syco also responded to the claim, stating that Avicii was always going to work with Lewis, and that he would be credited on the song. In response, Avicii accused Lewis and her label of lying about working together, and tweeted "Thanks for accusing me of lying and speaking on my behalf. Since we never met or even spoke, please let me and my manager know who told you that and what confirmation they gave you." Hours before both Lewis's and Avicii's
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Records chart. US Vinyl, 10", 78 RPM Single (1954) Never Let Me Go (Johnny Ace song) "Never Let Me Go" is a blues ballad song by American R&B/blues singer Johnny Ace, written by Joseph Scott and released in 1954 under Duke Records. The song is featured on the albums "My Songs" and "Memorial". "Never Let Me Go" was one of his eighth consecutive top ten R&B hits in a row, including "My Song", "Cross My Heart," "Please Forgive Me," "The Clock," "Pledging My Love," "Saving My Love for You," and "Anymore". The song was R&B hit and peaked to No.
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Never Let Me Go (Johnny Ace song) "Never Let Me Go" is a blues ballad song by American R&B/blues singer Johnny Ace, written by Joseph Scott and released in 1954 under Duke Records. The song is featured on the albums "My Songs" and "Memorial". "Never Let Me Go" was one of his eighth consecutive top ten R&B hits in a row, including "My Song", "Cross My Heart," "Please Forgive Me," "The Clock," "Pledging My Love," "Saving My Love for You," and "Anymore". The song was R&B hit and peaked to No. 9 in October 1954 on "Billboards" Rhythm & Blues
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on You (to Keep My Love from Me)" is an up-tempo pop song about how men and women go off to war leaving behind partners that they will never see again. The song was composed by Corr and produced by Nellee Hooper, who had produced hits for artists such as Gwen Stefani and Madonna. The song is written in the common verse-chorus form and features instrumentation from keyboards and guitars. "Shame on You (to Keep My Love from Me)" received positive reviews from music critics. IndieLondon described the song as a "slick package" that was "polished, well produced and with
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a 1975 conversation between herself and Dylan, discussing songs to include in the then-upcoming Rolling Thunder Revue concerts: "You gonna sing that song about robin's eggs and diamonds?" Bob had asked me on the first day of rehearsals. "Which one?" "You know, that one about blue eyes and diamonds..." "Oh", I said, "you must mean 'Diamonds and Rust,' the song I wrote for my husband, David. I wrote it while he was in prison." "For your husband?" Bob said. "Yeah. Who did you think it was about?" I stonewalled. "Oh, hey, what the fuck do I know?" "Never mind. Yeah,
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Ray J. Johnson Jr. Raymond J. Johnson Jr. is a character created by comedian Bill Saluga. Saluga's shtick as Ray J. Johnson is to become annoyed when addressed as "Mr. Johnson," exclaiming in a loud voice, "My name is Raymond J. Johnson Jr. Now you can call me Ray, or you can call me J, or you can call me Johnny, or you can call me Sonny, or you can call me Junie, or you can call me Junior; now you can call me Ray J, or you can call me RJ, or you can call me RJJ, or you
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too. Ray J. Johnson Jr. Raymond J. Johnson Jr. is a character created by comedian Bill Saluga. Saluga's shtick as Ray J. Johnson is to become annoyed when addressed as "Mr. Johnson," exclaiming in a loud voice, "My name is Raymond J. Johnson Jr. Now you can call me Ray, or you can call me J, or you can call me Johnny, or you can call me Sonny, or you can call me Junie, or you can call me Junior; now you can call me Ray J, or you can call me RJ, or you can call me RJJ, or
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the uncle of the guys in Jet". The page also lists James Paull as a "friend". Humphrey B. Flaubert's real name is Damian Cowell, who performs in the band as D.C. Root. In the Jock Cheese-penned song "Let's Club It to Death" from "Hot Dogma", Cheese mentions his real first name in the first verse ("My friends call me John / But you can call me Breaker Morant"). TISM were distinguished from other 'joke' or 'gimmick bands', by, among other things, their musical style. The band rarely in any seriousness stated actual influences on the type of music they played,
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an Italian girl as she will stand by you when you're in trouble, or won't call the police if you slap her in the mouth. After testifying, Junior defended his father before the press: My father never, never, never told me about hitting women, Italian women, bothering women. I want to apologize to all the people in the state of Rhode Island because my father… never had a conversation with me like that about women, marrying an Italian girl so you can hit an Italian girl. He never spoke to me like that. In fact, my first wife was Jewish
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their concerts to apologize to the band's fans. Owen Wilson gave a tongue-in-cheek response to the letter, stating in a press conference, "I have never heard the song 'Cousin Dupree' and I don't even know who this gentleman, Mr. Steely Dan, is. I hope this helps to clear things up and I can get back to concentrating on my new movie, "HEY 19"." You, Me and Dupree You, Me and Dupree is a 2006 American comedy film directed by Anthony Russo and Joe Russo and written by Mike LeSieur. It stars Owen Wilson, Kate Hudson, Matt Dillon, Seth Rogen, Amanda
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me in the face, hold my gaze, and call me by your name." Reviewing "Call Me by Your Name" for "The New York Times", Stacey D'Erasmo called the novel "an exceptionally beautiful book". Writing in "The New Yorker", Cynthia Zarin said, "Aciman’s first novel shows him to be an acute grammarian of desire". In "The Washington Post", Charles Kaiser said, "If you have ever been the willing victim of obsessive love—a force greater than yourself that pulls you inextricably toward the object of your desire—you will recognize every nuance of André Aciman's superb new novel, 'Call Me by Your Name.'"
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can be hard. As the song begins, Spears declares, "'Never look back', we said / How was I to know I'd miss you so? / Loneliness up ahead, emptyness behind / Where do I go?" During the chorus, she realizes that she has lost her true love, stating, "From the bottom of my broken heart, even though time may find me somebody new / You were my real love, I never knew love, till there was you." According to sheet music published at musicnotes.com by Universal Music Publishing Group, "From the Bottom of My Broken Heart" is composed in the
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we were lovers / When you know very well we never even touched each other." In 2005, during concerts on the rapper's Anger Management Tour, he began playing voice-mails and recordings that were reportedly left by Carey. One of the messages said: "I heard you were getting back with your ex-wife. Why won't you see me? Why won't you call me?". After playing the excerpt, Eminem would pretend to be sick before launching into his song "Puke". On May 12, 2009, Eminem released his sixth studio album "Relapse", which included the song "Bagpipes from Baghdad". The song's lyrics suggested Eminem
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Shame on You (to Keep My Love from Me) "Shame on You (to Keep My Love from Me)" is a song written and performed by Andrea Corr for her debut solo album "Ten Feet High" (2007). It is an anti-war protest song written from the viewpoint of a female whose partner has gone off to war. The song was released as the album's first single in June 2007 to positive reviews from music critics. Andrea Corr never intended to compose a song about conscription and war. "Shame on You (to Keep My Love from Me)" began as a love song,
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figure what I was even doing there - why would they need my voice when they have hers?." He added, "She wanted to do the song as a duet and I was flattered, but it definitely made me question my vocal ability." In August 2013, "Billboard" wrote that the song is titled "Incredible." Ne-Yo also wrote and co-produced another song for "Loved Me Back to Life" titled "Thank You." "Incredible" was co-written by Emanuel Kiriakou and Andrew Goldstein. Kiriakou also first worked with Dion in 2007. He co-produced "Surprise Surprise" recorded for "Taking Chances" and produced "There Comes a Time"
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concluded that Lee sings the lines "You know you live to break me" and "Are you still too weak to survive your mistakes?" to Evanescence's past guitarist Ben Moody. That sentiment was echoed by Rob Sheffield of "Rolling Stone", who said that the lyrics "One day I'm gonna forget your name/And one sweet day, you're gonna drown in my lost pain" are aimed at Moody. Bill Lamb of the website About.com, put the song on his list of Top Tracks on "The Open Door" alongside "Lacrymosa", "Call Me When You're Sober", "Your Star" and "Good Enough". In his review of
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commented on his sexuality: "I've never ever labelled myself. But having said that; I've never limited my life, I've never limited who I sleep with... Call me whatever you want. Call me bisexual, if you need a term for me..." Later he stated in an interview with "This Is London": "I consider myself label-less because I could fall in love with anybody – literally – any type, any body. I'm not picky." In an August 2012 interview with the magazine "Instinct", the singer described himself as gay. In March 2010, Mika was honoured in France with the Order of Arts
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inspiration for the song came for a picture of Cole giving the middle finger. "Screw You" is an urban song, produced by Hy-Grade and written by Megan Nicolle Thomaston, Kingsley Brown, Daniel Traynor and Jermaine Scott. It includes the lyrics "It never was enough, I never got your love, I loved you so much but you never gave a fuck." Cole announced that "Screw You" would serve as the third single from "A Million Lights", following "Call My Name" and "Under the Sun". However, the single release of the track was cancelled to allow Cole to reunite with her Girls
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then acted like I wrote it. So in my mind, finally, I did write it. It was my song. Because I would go places, "Hey John, play that 'Early Bird Cafe' song.' People just assumed I wrote it because, like you, they had never heard the record. So that song really became mine more than the guy that wrote it or Jerry Hahn Brotherhood, you know, 40 years ago. I've been playing it for 40 years, so we're making this record and I just finally...because the guys in the band have heard me play it a hundred times, I said,
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the claim, stating that Avicii was always going to work with Lewis, and that he would be credited on the song. In response, Avicii accused Lewis and her label of lying about working together, and tweeted "Thanks for accusing me of lying and speaking on my behalf. Since we never met or even spoke, please let me and my manager know who told you that and what confirmation they gave you." Hours before both Lewis's and Avicii's record labels were supposed to appear in the high court, Syco released a statement that both record labels had reached an agreement and
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grown ass man lies about getting with a chick? Only Slim Lamey! LOL! I’m putting this out there now. Marshall Mathers, you need to holler at me... Man to man, let’s meet up and deal with this like adults. So, Miss Marshall, I'm going to make you wish you never spoke my name and regret the ungodly things you said about my wife. Your legacy has now been tainted from this day forth! You will now be known as the rapper who lost to corny-ass Nick Cannon! Eminem responded to Cannon's comments sarcastically, clarifying that the song was really "wishing
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relentless than I had imagined. There are many things that will drive you mad as women playwrights. Plays that get diminished by being called a woman’s play, as if that’s an insult. We never call male driven plays, men’s plays. We call them plays. Because men are still seen as the drivers of the world. When I wrote The Vagina Monologues, journalists were constantly asking me with a kind of pity, how I felt that only women come to my show. I would say, “Only women? You mean 51% of the population? Thank you, women.” They will tell you your
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the writing and recording of "Someone Like You": "Someone Like You" won the 2012 Grammy for Best Pop Solo Performance, and as she accepted the award, Adele said, "I want to thank Dan Wilson, who wrote this song with me. My life changed when I wrote this song and I felt it before anyone even heard it." "Someone Like You" was the most downloaded single of all time in the UK and was voted third most favourite single of the last 60 years in the UK. Wilson's career as a painter, illustrator, and calligrapher is less widely known, but his
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example of Fet's prose is considered to be the short novel "The Golts Family" (1870) which told the tragic story of an alcoholic village doctor's social and mental decline. Those were the years of Fet's close contact with Leo Tolstoy whom he often visited at Yasnaya Polyana. In 1873 Fet wrote to his wife: "You cannot even imagine how I hate the name Fet. I implore you never to mention it… If someone would ask me to give one single name to all the trials and tribulations of my life, I'd say without hesitation, this name is 'Fet'". That same
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Budapest the next day, and I never got it because I was too hungover and didn't fancy it. So I wrote the song about being miles from Budapest." "Budapest" was originally released as part of Ezra's EP "Did You Hear the Rain?", which contains the song of the same name. When asked about how the song became popular, Ezra revealed, "At first we gave it away as a free track off the my EP for like a month, and then in Italy it just kicked off for some reason. I've never even been over there, but [the song] was just
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he was playing with Mary Wells, then Marvin Gaye before The Temptations snatched him up. Grant used a Gibson Birdland and a Fender Telecaster. He created the opening guitar riff on "I Know I'm Losing You". He wrote the hit song with Eddie Holland and Norman Whitfield. He also wrote "You're My Everything" with Roger Penzabene and Norman Whitfield. Penzabene, a close friend of Grant's, wrote "I Wish It Would Rain" and "I Could Never Love Another". Grant also wrote "Take Me in Your Arms and Love Me" and "Ain't No Sun (Since You Been Gone)" (performed by Gladys Knight
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are the formats and track listings of major single releases of "Shame on You (to Keep My Love from Me)". CD Single<br> Shame on You (to Keep My Love from Me) "Shame on You (to Keep My Love from Me)" is a song written and performed by Andrea Corr for her debut solo album "Ten Feet High" (2007). It is an anti-war protest song written from the viewpoint of a female whose partner has gone off to war. The song was released as the album's first single in June 2007 to positive reviews from music critics. Andrea Corr never intended
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Rowberry: Songwriter Roger Atkins has said that the lyrics he wrote contained the line "Sure I'll do wrong, hurt you some time...", but that Burdon recorded the wrong words: "Show me I'm wrong, hurt me sometime...". Atkins said that Burdon's words "never made any sense to me. Everyone who's recorded it sings the wrong chorus, and sometimes even the wrong lyrics in the verses, too." There are two different versions of The Animals' recording due to a slight variation of playback speed. The track found on "The Best Of The Animals" 1987 CD compilation, clocking in at 3:13, is pitched
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called the song "danceable and fun" and wrote that "the song would've been great even without Aguilera, but her fiery cameo makes it that much better." Robert Copsey wrote for Digital Spy: " "Take me by the tongue and I'll know you/ Kiss me till you're drunk and I'll show you," Ad insists over a funky, finger-clicking bassline and an irresistible whistle hook that immediately burrows deep into the recesses of your brain. "If I share my secret/ You're gonna have to keep it," Christina says on her short, sweet and perfectly formed cameo. We've already got your number, love,
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with her and working with her and her calling me on a first name basis and calling my home and tracking me down on my cell phone... like her leaving messages, it was the weirdest thing." Kahn continued "And Janet, she really is elegant, she's like royalty. Even though she's talking to you and trying to be normal, she's not – she's Janet Jackson – and you can never get that out of your head. You realize that she's a real person and she's got just the same emotions as everyone else, but you can never get around the fact
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27, 1978. In his autobiography "Sweet Life", Manilow said that the song was "one of my personal favorites, which never fails to move me. It reminded me of the great times I had collaborating with" Marty Panzer, with whom the singer had worked previously. Even Now (Barry Manilow song) "Even Now" is a 1978 song by American adult contemporary and pop music singer Barry Manilow. It is the title track from his 1978 album, and Manilow wrote the music and co-produced the track with Ron Dante. The words were written by Marty Panzer. Released as the second single from the
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has a heavier instrumental and bass compared to the original version. Bieber begins his verse approximately one minute and forty-five seconds in, singing the new lyrics "It’s like every time you call me/ You know I can’t leave you lonely/ 'Cause I was always there when you need/ You said that you'd be there 'til the end/ What must I say/ I never thought it would happen this way oh/ But I can tell if you're gone again/ got my number… things til the end.” Followed by another chorus and a verse by T.I., the song ends with a fade.
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a Flame' come from?" Angélil responded, "It's, you know, the opposites." Dion replied, "It's the name of the song." Musician Samantha Ronson, who is a friend of Merriweather's, wrote a blog post that included the video of the interview and the text "Dear Celine Dion, when you cover someone else's song- you might want to give them credit." In June 2013, Merriweather linked to Ronson's post from his Facebook page and harshly criticized Dion, writing, "This song has every ounce of my heartache and pain in it and she pretends as if she wrote it herself." Two days later, Dion's
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fall, maybe you want to leave me behind, maybe you'll change and give me a call." 1988: "Before we lose it all... Maybe the time has its own way of healing, maybe it dries the tears in your eyes, but never change the way that I'm feeling, only you can answer my cries." Belgium 1988 #31 NL 1988 #42 France 1988 #67 UK 1988 #86 Open Your Heart (Europe song) "Open Your Heart" is a power ballad released by the Swedish heavy metal band Europe. It was released twice; in 1984 as a single from the album "Wings of Tomorrow",
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kind of like, you know, maybe you just need to let this go and go on. I mean, this is three years now. And this record should have been out a long time ago. It may be new for everybody else, but it's really old for me." Regarding the song "Blue Denim", Nicks stated, "Well, I wrote this... um, it's a song about this guy who came into my life, but left just as quick. And his eyes were that intense, that it just makes you, even if you didn't know him, you would go, like, 'wow.' And you could
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for The Seekers. He wrote many of their major hits, including "I'll Never Find Another You", "A World of Our Own", the million-selling "The Carnival Is Over" (the melody was based on a Russian folk song, while Tom Springfield wrote only lyrics for the song) and "Walk with Me". Around this same time, he co-wrote (with Clive Westlake) Frank Ifield's 1964 hit "Summer Is Over" and his sister Dusty's 1964 hit "Losing You". His other hit compositions include "Adios Amour (Goodbye My Love)", which was recorded by José Feliciano and The Casuals, and "Just Loving You", which became a 1967
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That's not it. I'm just being me. My song is called 'Call It Whatever.' You can call me whatever, if you like me or not like me. I really don't care." A music video for the song was filmed in early April 2014. The video was directed by Mickey Finnegan and premiered on Vevo on May 29. It shows Thorne dressed up as a waitress in the 1950s diner. She dances and serves food while trying to get the attention of her crush. The video takes place in Cadillac Jack's Diner in San Fernando Valley, the same location used in
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takes place in Amy's apartment, with her thinking back to the night before. Group member Nick Noonan describes it as "She ran into a guy, who is me. She got along really well, didn’t expect to get along with somebody like that, then at the end of the night they exchanged numbers. The whole song is ‘Why didn’t you call me? Don’t leave me brokenhearted.’ She’s never really felt like this, she’s confused, she’s anxious. You think this guy might be a jerk, but then at the very end you figure out why he didn’t call." The 'cheerio' part in
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still a flicker of anger in the singer's words, like in the lyric '...When I'm finished, they won't even know your name.'" "The Guardian", "The Atlantic", MTV UK, and "Complex" each reported that the song was about Dr. Luke, the producer whom Kesha accused of sexually assaulting and emotionally abusing her in a lawsuit, although the song never mentions Dr. Luke by name. Kornhaber felt that the song's opening lyrics — "You almost had me fooled / Told me that I was nothing without you" — recall the singer's allegation that Dr. Luke told her: "You are not that pretty,
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his feelings about the possibility of a Beatles reunion: Benitez takes this as evidence that the lyrics of "Call Me Back Again" may have included a message that the Beatles were not interested in reuniting. In particular, he notes that this may be the case if the "you" in the chorus "But I ain't never no no no no no never heard you calling me" refers to a reunion. Call Me Back Again "Call Me Back Again" is a song credited to Paul and Linda McCartney and performed by Wings. It was originally released on the album "Venus and Mars".
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reads: "Now I know she'll never leave me/Even as she runs away/She will still torment me/Call me, hurt me/Move me, come what may/Wasting in my lonely tower/Waiting by an open door/I'll fool myself, she'll walk right in/And be with me for evermore", which Stevens performs vulnerably. The track also discusses themes such as true love, sacrifice and learning to understand love. Stevens sings within the vocal range of a "deep, resonating baritone" throughout the song, which lasts a total duration of three minutes and fourteen seconds; Channel NewsAsia contributor Genevieve Sarah Loh compared Stevens' voice, whose notes are suspended by
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song for Andriano's wife, he wrote it as " a simple "I miss you" song, with a hint of, "I know I'm gone a lot, but please don't leave me." [It] sounds a little like well-worn territory for some, I suppose. But I've never felt like this in my life, and I'm 34 years old and have been married for 9 years". He wrote it to express his relief that he found someone who can help him through his "real-life problems", and that he married her as soon as he could. Dan wrote this song to talk about his desire
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my own creative juices flowing again. We wrote 'Driving Away' and then got together again and wrote 'Boundless'. We wrote them as duets because we were writing them as equals, so we decided that we would record them on that level and perform them on that level." On another song, "Call Me Rose," he writes from the point of view of Richard Nixon, reincarnated as a single mother living in the projects. "I woke up one morning with this song in my head," Cockburn said, "and the opening line of the song is, 'My name was Richard Nixon, only now
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I do, raise a baby? You go play.' And even though my toe was broken I had to go pitch the game anyway. It was terrible. It would always be like that. I'm glad he raised me like that but it would always be, 'What are you – sick? You're not sick. What did I raise – a baby? I never missed a day's work in my life.' Then I went to military school, and in military school, you couldn't call in sick." Further, Johnny's early adulthood was marked by bouts of delinquency which he attested were inexplicable at the
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Call on Me (Starley song) "Call on Me" is the debut single from Australian singer/songwriter Starley. The song was written by her and Peter Wadams. It was made available for digital download on 29 July 2016 through Tinted Records, and it was re-released through Tinted Records and Epic Records on 13 October 2016. Starley said, "I wrote this song when I was at a low point in my life... It became a way of telling myself it was going to be ok, almost like an encouragement. It was as if I had created my own lighthouse, a beacon to help
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vertical video to Spotify. The official music video for "Call Out My Name" was released on April 12, 2018 and directed by Grant Singer. Call Out My Name "Call Out My Name" is a song recorded by Canadian singer and songwriter The Weeknd, taken from his first EP, "My Dear Melancholy," released on March 30, 2018. The Weeknd co-wrote the song with its producer Frank Dukes, with Nicolas Jaar receiving writing credits for the sampling of his 2016 song "Killing Time". The song was sent to rhythmic contemporary radio on April 10, 2018 as the extended play's first single in
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up/ Save me!" in a rap style. The "St. Petersburg Times" Brian Orloff called the song a "boffo hit" in which Lee sang the lines "'Call my name and save me from the dark' over surging guitars." Ann Powers from the "Milwaukee Journal Sentinel" wrote: "'Bring Me to Life,' with its lyrical drama and crunchy guitars, branded the band as overdone nu-metal." "Blender" writer Nick Catucci called the song a "crossover goth-metal smash". Kristi Turnquist of "The Oregonian" called the song a power ballad. "Rolling Stone"s Kirk Miller wrote that: "...thanks to the song's digital beats, clean metal-guitar riffs, scattered
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I talked the song through with the lick, and the melody just came naturally. The melody that came to me was the bass lick, so I just shadowed my melody with the lick on guitar." The song was demoed by Simmons and band Silent Rage, who Simmons had signed to his label $immons Records. The demo version differs from the studio version in verses, as the verse in the demo is "Here's an introduction, her name is Domino / Never had confession, if you really wanna know / Ain't the virgin Mary, love her, I confess / Got my hesitations,
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You and Me (La Toya Jackson song) "You and Me" is a single by La Toya Jackson, taken from her sixth studio album, "Bad Girl". The song was originally titled Verso L'Ignoto, sung in Italian by Marcella and , who entered the song in the annual Sanremo Music Festival held from February 28 to March 3, 1990. Jackson wrote English lyrics to the song and also performed it in the festival. The single was released only in a 7" format, with the song "He's My Brother", a biographical track about brother Michael Jackson, as the B-side. It peaked at #28
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Eastern refrains. "The melody has this feeling of space, of mystery, of times gone by", Brightman said. "What You Never Know" is the album's first Canadian single and the work of songwriter Stephan Moccio who wrote "A New Day Has Come", the title song for Céline Dion's album. Brightman said that her first meeting with him sparked the collaboration. "It was wonderful", she said. "He even knew the key I sound best in. He understood about simplicity, and I told him, 'I don't want you to have barriers – write something for me that you really feel.' This song has
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then barely nineteen, served with Locker for fifteen months. His experiences with Locker, and Locker's teachings had a lasting effect on Nelson. Twenty years later, on 9 February 1799, Nelson wrote to his old captain: "I have been your scholar; it is you who taught me to board a Frenchman by your conduct when in the Experiment; it is you who always told me ‘Lay a Frenchman close and you will beat him;’ and my only merit in my profession is being a good scholar. Our friendship will never end but with my life, but you have always been too
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one of the many hits from the jumpy handclap riddim known as the Diwali Riddim, that was also produced by Marsden. According to Wayne Wonder, the song is about a girl that he once knew but he doesn't mention her name. He said in an interview with MTV in 2003 "I just wrote this song [about a girl] without calling her name in the song because she always said to me, 'You are always [calling] these other girls' names.' I said, 'I don’t have to call your name, I'll just write a song and you can appreciate it.'" He was
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the music press in the 1970s that he was a fan of the Beatles and the chance to record a McCartney original helped to inspire his next project. However, McCartney ended up recording it himself with his band Wings, and it was issued in 1978 on the album "London Town". Michael always said that he wrote the song for a platonic love "Paul and me... well... we wrote this song for my crush, she is a gorgeous singer, foreign and it is even better, you know?, because she has no idea of my feelings, and you don't know how i
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Milk wrote to Jones: "Rev Jim, It may take me many a day to come back down from the high that I reach today. I found something dear today. I found a sense of being that makes up for all the hours and energy placed in a fight. I found what you wanted me to find. I shall be back. For I can never leave." In a hand-written note, Milk wrote to Jones "my name is cut into stone in support of you - and your people." Jim Rivaldo, who attended Temple meetings with Milk, explained that, until Jonestown, the
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could tell and hoped and prayed that we got something incredibly special. After we wrote the song ... I hailed a cab down. [The taxi driver] played it and said "that is great, that is, Robbie, 'that is gonne be number one', and you know what: it never was number one." Williams has expressed irritation that some assumed Chambers was the sole author, saying: "It pees me off because everyone thinks Guy penned 'Let Me Entertain You' and 'Angels', but they're my songs." Irish singer-songwriter Ray Heffernan asserts that he wrote the first version of "Angels" in Paris in 1995,
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duo StarGate recalled that during an event Rihanna met with Drake backstage and asked him to record a verse on her song, "She's calling me up saying, 'Where are the files?' That's one thing you don't hear often from artists on her level." "What's My Name?" was written by Mikkel S. Eriksen, Hermansen, Ester Dean, Traci Hale and Drake, while the production was done by StarGate. In an interview for HitQuarters, Hale explained that she got into the project that's to a phone call she received from Dean. She also elaborated that her work on the song was mostly lyrical,
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isolation in that; the stakes are very high. I've done a lot of living in my 42 years, and it wasn't hard for me to relate to that." The song also served as an introduction to the character, even though he was featured in many other movies before - hence the title "You Know My Name" - dealing with Bond's action such as his first assassination, "introducing himself to what may be the rest of his life and how he will live it and what it will mean." Three versions of the song were produced: The song was leaked on
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Andree Farias from "Christianity Today" felt that the song was "self-explanatory". A "Stornoway Gazette" writer called it a "tough-love" song which finds the protagonist "hoping that [her lover will] crash and burn and finally learn a lesson". In the song, Lee accuses her lover numerous times, as illustrated in the chorus lines "Don't cry to me/ If you loved me/ You would be here with me" and the bridge lines "You never call me when you're sober/ You only want it cause it's over". The lines "make up your mind" repeated during the song's chorus are replaced with "I've made
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who will support her, not disappear when she needs him the most. She asks if he thinks the relationship is worth fighting for. "I wanna love/ I want a fire/ To feel the burn/ My desires/ I wanna man by my side/ Not a boy who runs and hides/ Are you gonna fight for me?/ Die for me?/ Live and breathe for me?/ Do you care for me?/ 'Cause if you don't then just leave," she sings. Pam Avoledo of Blogcritics wrote that "[...] Clarkson vocals fiery and smoldering. She's come a long way from American Idol where she had
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by gospel artist Kirk Franklin. Also, the song was sampled by DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince in their song "I'm Looking for the One (To Be with Me)", Mariah Carey in "Always Be My Baby" (Mr. Dupri Mix) [feat. Da Brat & Xscape], Janet Jackson in "Call on Me", and Jodeci's 2015 song "Incredible" for their album, The Past, The Present, The Future. Tell Me If You Still Care "Tell Me If You Still Care" is a song performed by American contemporary R&B group The S.O.S. Band. It is the opening track on the group's fourth studio album
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you enjoy music from Audrey, Sara, Jamie, or even Dara MacLean and Rebecca St. James. This, along with Jamie Grace’s "One Song at a Time" and Lindsay McCaul’s "If it Leads Me Back" are my favourites from debut artists over the past 6 months." However, the critical reviews come in from Jesus Freak Hideout and The Phantom Tollbooth, who gave the album a three-and-a-half-out-of-five. The more hopeful of these was Michael Dalton, who wrote for The Phantom Tollbooth that the album "...reminds me of my first love. A faith in Christ that is fresh and vital energizes these songs." Finally,
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it was brought into my life for a reason. It's really been so helpful for me and I hope it's the same for other people as it's been for me." Because of this, Furler gave the song to her. Furler also wrote the song "Battlefield" especially for Michele, and co-wrote "If You Say So" with her. "If You Say So" was confirmed to be dedicated to Cory Monteith, Michele's "Glee" co-star and late boyfriend, who died in July 2013. Talking about the title track "Louder", Michele has said, "It's a song that, no matter what, I can play in my
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The first song The Pioneers ever done was call "Good Nanny" and it was done by only him and his brother Derrick Crooks, which introduce The Pioneers singing group to Jamaica and the world of reggae. The first formation song the sang call "Good Nanny". The second formation song the sang call "I'll never come running back to you no more". The third formation song the sang call " Shake it up". The forth formation song the sang call "Give it to me". The fifth formation song the sang call" Give me little loving". The six formation song the sang
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Reeves had been performing "32 Flavors" live for some time - (quote) "I always improvised a melody around it [when] I did it ...on stage...My band never knew how I was going to call it. We would create something on stage and do it. And it was the power of the lyric, you know, that allowed me to do that and to make it something different every night. And then I said, I want to record this." In the song "You're my flavor" by Lenny Kravitz on his Album ""5"" at minute 3:08 a reference to Ani DiFranco's song is
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play. It starred Don Murray (who also worked on the screenplay with Shurtleff), Otis Young, Cathy Lee Crosby, Kent Smith, Edith Atwater, and Gary Clarke. Murray supposedly wanted Sidney Poitier to play opposite him in the film originally. The film is extremely rare, but has been shown at a few events in the 2010s by Murray himself. Call Me by My Rightful Name Call Me By My Rightful Name is an American play by Michael Shurtleff which is based on the novel "The Whipping Boy" by S.F. Pfoutz. Set in the early 1960s, "Call Me By My Rightful Name" is
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return to Jackson's conversational style; in the song, She is searching for her lover: "My first and only call is to you, time after time, babe, throughout my life". Its music is punctuated by handclaps and by low swoops of a string section. Sixth song "This Body" lyrically is about men who have appreciation with Jackson's appearances in magazines. She addresses her fans in the line "Just had to buy me, had to try me, oooh, you're in love with the hottest girl in the magazine". The song brings sinuous and dark beats incorporating a rhythmic pattern of heavy breathing
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out the woods wearing black clothes with reflective martial. The Ting Tings perform the song, while behind them the double dutchers skip rope, the cheerleaders cheer, the drummers drum, and the sign spinners spin signs featuring the names from the song's lyrics on them. Dizzee Rascal performed a version of this song in the Live Lounge on BBC Radio 1, changing the chorus to: "They call me 'blood'/ They call me 'rude boy'/They call me oi/They call me mate/ ...They use the 'N-word' like it's a game/ That's not my name..." During the Pittsburgh Penguins' Stanley Cup run in 2009,
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again. It's one thing when you just sing a song where you don't use the actual name of Jesus, but it's a whole 'nother thing when you TRY not to use the name. For me, the name of Jesus will never be distasteful in my mouth. He's always the answer"". Her 1991 MCA release was "The Lady" which included production by R. Kelly, husband Marvin Winans, and her son Mario. The nine-song album was missing the name "Jesus" and controversially contained a rendition of "West Side Story"'s "Somewhere". MCA then sent Winans to that year's Stellar Awards television broadcast with
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and to No. 3 in its sixth charting week. In its eighth chart week, "Call My Name" advanced to the top spot, holding the No. 1 spot for a total of thirteen consecutive weeks. The song dropped to No. 3 in its twenty-first chart week, supplanted from the top spot by Brandon Heath's "Give Me Your Eyes". After spending twenty-nine weeks on the chart, "Call My Name" dropped out. On the "Billboard" Hot Christian AC chart, "Call My Name" spent eleven weeks at No. 1. It also topped the "Radio & Records" Christian AC Monitored and Christian AC Indicator charts
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with someone else, it was just the horrible-est feeling ever. But after I wrote it, I felt more at peace. It set me free... I didn't think it would resonate... with the world! I'm never gonna write a song like that again. I think that's the song I'll be known for." She also said that "I wrote that song on the end of my bed. I had a cold. I was waiting for my bath to run. I'd found out that he'd got engaged to someone else." Adele later collaborated with famed musician and producer Dan Wilson to write "Someone
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The first co-written song, "You Can't Help Me Now," was started by Leo, who described himself as "shaken" when he received Mann's initial notes on the song, because "a person who I respect so much is handing me negative notes about something I wrote. It was really just my own quaking ego... But we got past that pretty quickly." Leo described the partnership with Mann as "literally the best thing that has happened to my writing process in my life." According to Mann, the song "Bedtime Stories" was written about Scott Miller, as an expression of mourning and as "a
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hearing a sonata so wonderful and so beautiful, played with such great art and intelligence, as I had never even conceived in my boldest flights of fantasy. I felt enraptured, transported, enchanted: my breath failed me, and I awoke. I immediately grasped my violin in order to retain, in part at least, the impression of my dream. In vain! The music which I at this time composed is indeed the best that I ever wrote, and I still call it the "Devil's Trill", but the difference between it and that which so moved me is so great that I would
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