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Video hit Holly Cole

Holly Cole - I Can See Clearly Now (live,2011)

I Can See Clearly Now is a song written and recorded by Johnny Nash. It was a single from the album of the same name and achieved success in the United States and the United Kingdom when it was released in 1972, reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

It was covered by many artists throughout the years, including a 1993 hit version by Jimmy Cliff, who re-recorded it for the motion picture soundtrack of Cool Runnings, where it reached the top 20 at No. 18 on the Billboard Hot 100.

The song's promotional video is set near the White House in Washington, D.C., which at the time of the release was in the beginning stages of the Watergate scandal.

Holly Cole (born November 25, 1963 in Halifax, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian jazz singer, particularly popular in Canada and Japan for both her versatile and distinctive voice, along with her adventurous repertoire, which spans such divergent genres as show tunes, rock, and country music.

Holly Cole Trio

In 1983, Cole travelled to Toronto to seek a musical career. In 1986, she founded a trio with bassist David Piltch and pianist Aaron Davis. Offered a record deal in 1989, the Holly Cole Trio released an EP, Christmas Blues, that year, which featured a version of The Pretenders' "2,000 Miles." This was followed by their first full album, Girl Talk, in 1990.

A succession of releases followed through the early 1990s. For example, 1991's Blame It On My Youth, covered songs by Tom Waits ("Purple Avenue," aka "Empty Pockets"), Lyle Lovett ("God Will"), includes show tunes such as "If I Were a Bell" (from Guys and Dolls) and "On the Street Where You Live" (from My Fair Lady), and even remakes "Trust In Me," from Disney's The Jungle Book, into a strikingly sultry and sinister song of seduction and death. Also recorded in this period was a reinterpretation of Elvis Costello's "Alison."

Solo career

Following 1993's Don't Smoke In Bed, the trio released a CD entirely of songs by Tom Waits, called Temptation. This 1995 release also dropped the "Trio" from the label.

Cole followed with two albums, Dark Dear Heart (1997) and Romantically Helpless (2000), which veered further from jazz by introducing pop elements to Cole's sound.

In 2001, she returned to the Christmas jazz roots of her first CD with Baby It's Cold Outside, which included "Christmas Time is Here" (from A Charlie Brown Christmas), "Santa Baby", and the title track. Swapping cold for hot, she moved to a summer theme in 2003's Shade, this time reinterpreting Cole Porter ("Too Darn Hot"), Irving Berlin ("Heatwave"), and The Beach Boys' Brian Wilson ("God Only Knows").

Cole's album, Holly Cole (originally entitled This House Is Haunted) was released in Canada in March 2007. It was released in the US in January 2008 and was followed by a US tour.

Cole tours frequently, particularly around the holiday season, in Canada. She was also a part of the 1998 Lilith Fair tour, and her song "Onion Girl" was included on that year's live compilation album.

In 2010, Holly contributed a track for the World Jazz For Haiti charity album, recorded at Number 9 Audio Group in support of the Red Cross disaster relief fund. The album featured Canadian artists such as John McDermott, David Clayton-Thomas and George Koller.

Holly Cole's first ever live DVD + CD titled "Steal The Night: Live At The Glenn Gould Studio" was released in Canada in February 2012. It was recorded live at Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto on August 11, 2011. The performance marks the reformation of the original Holly Cole Trio lineup with Aaron Davis on piano and bassist David Piltch, in addition to John Johnson (horns), Rob Piltch (guitars) and Davide DiRenzo (drums).

Holly Cole's new studio album Night was released in late 2012 on Universal Music Canada. It is her first studio album in over 5 years. The album, produced by Holly Cole and Greg Cohen, covers songs from Tom Waits ("Walk Away"), Gordon Lightfoot ("If You Could Read My Mind"), Mort Shuman ("Viva Las Vegas"), Captain Beefheart ("Love Lies"), a James Bond theme by John Barry (“You Only Live Twice“), and a Holly Cole original ("You've Got a Secret"). Holly Cole will tour in support of Night in 2012-13 to Canada, America, Germany and Japan.

The lyrics:

I can see clearly now, the rain is gone,

I can see all obstacles in my way

Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind

It’s gonna be a bright (bright), bright (bright)

Sun-Shiny day.

I think I can make it now, the pain is gone

All of the bad feelings have disappeared

Here is the rainbow I’ve been prayin?for

It’s gonna be a bright (bright), bright (bright)

Sun-Shiny day.

Look all around, there’s nothin?but blue skies

Look straight ahead, nothin?but blue skies

I can see clearly now, the rain is gone,

I can see all obstacles in my way

Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind

It’s gonna be a bright (bright), bright (bright)

Sun-Shiny day.

Video hit Cassandra Wilson

Cassandra Wilson - You Don't Know What Love Is (live)

Cassandra Wilson and Band perform at the Funchal Jazz Festival in Funchal, Portugal.

Reginald Veal - acoustic bass

Marvin Sewell - electric guitar

Gregoire Maret - harmonica

Jon Cowherd - piano

Lekan Babalola - percussion

John Davis - drums

"You Don't Know What Love Is," a popular song of the Great American Songbook, was written by Don Raye (lyrics) and Gene de Paul (music) for the Abbott and Costello picture Keep 'Em Flying (1941), in which it was sung by Carol Bruce. The number was deleted prior to release.

Universal ended putting the song into the Raye/de Paul score of one of its B musicals, the 60-minute Behind the Eight Ball (1942), starring the Ritz Brothers and re-teaming Carol Bruce and Dick Foran from "Keep 'Em Flying." Here, "You Don't Know What Love Is" was again sung by Carol Bruce, in her third and final film until the 1980s. Bruce would find her greatest success on Broadway.

From such curious beginnings as an outtake in an A picture and an introduction in a B, both by the same singer, no one could have predicted that in later years the song would emerge as a masterpiece—a jazz standard to be recorded several hundreds of times, starting when Miles Davis and other jazz musicians began recording and playing the song in the 1950s.

The song also appears on the soundtrack to the film The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999).

The lyrics:

You don't know what love is

Until you learn the meaning of the blues

Until you've lost a love you had to lose

You don't know what love is

You don't know how lips hurts

Until you've kissed and had to pay the cost

Until you've flipped your heart and you have lost

You don't know what love is

Do you know how a lost hearts fears

The thought of reminiscing

And how lips that taste the tears

Lose their taste for kissing

You don't know how hearts burn

For love that cannot live yet never dies

Until you've faced each dawn with sleepless eyes

You don't know what love is

(Music)

Do you know how a lost hearts fears

The thought of reminiscing

And how lips that taste of tears

Ooh, they lose their taste for kissing

You don't know how hearts burn

For love that cannot live yet never dies

Until you've faced each dawn with sleepless eyes

You don't know what love is

Video hit Melody Gardot

Melody Gardot - Baby I'm a Fool

Baby I'm a Fool is a song written and composed by American jazz singer-songwriter Melody Gardot. It was released as the second single from her second full-length album, My One and Only Thrill.
According to Gardot, the lyrics are about "two coquette people who won't admit they are in love with each other."

A live rendition of the song was also recorded and released on her Live from SoHo EP.

A music video for "Baby I'm a Fool" was directed by Aaron Platt produced by Justin Cronkite, and filmed entirely in black-and-white. The video displays Gardot resting in an Clawfoot bathtub flanked by dancers dressed in tuxedos who perform an elaborate choreographic sequence to the rhythm of the song.

The lyrics:

How was I to know that this was always only just a little game to you?

All the time I felt you gave your heart I thought that I would do the same for you,

Tell the truth I think I should have seen it coming from a mile away,

When the words you say are,

"Baby I'm a fool who thinks it's cool to fall in love"

If I gave a thought to fascination I would know it wasn't right to care,

Logic doesn't seem to mind that I am fascinated by the love affair,

Still my heart would benefit from a little tenderness from time to time, but never mind,

Cause baby I'm a fool who thinks it's cool to fall in love,

Baby I should hold on just a moment and be sure it's not for vanity,

Look me in the eye and tell me love is never based upon insanity,

Even when my heart is beating hurry up the moment's fleeting,

Kiss me now, Don't ask me how,

Cause Baby I'm a fool who thinks it's cool to fall,

Baby I'm a fool who thinks it's cool to fall,

And I would never tell if you became a fool and fell in Love.

Video hit Van Morrison

Van Morrison - Into The Mystic

This is about a sailor at sea thinking about returning to his lover, who is back on land. Normally a foghorn signals danger, but in this case it means he is close to home and his love.
There is room for interpretation beyond the superficial meaning.

It might be interpreted as expressing an understanding that life is finite (the ship sailing on its round trip) and must be lived to its fullest ("I want to rock your Gypsy soul"), and an acceptance of its inevitable end ("We will magnificently float into the mystic, when the foghorn blows I will be coming home"). When you have seen the world and loved someone, you should have no reason to fear the end because you have lived your life to the fullest.

The original title was "Into the Misty."

According to Morrison, he couldn't decide whether the first line should be "We were born before the wind" or "We were borne before the wind."

This was played in the 1989 Mary Stuart Masterson movie Immediate Family. She played a woman who was young and pregnant and planning to give her baby to Glenn Close and James Woods, who couldn't have a baby of their own.

According to a BBC survey, because of this song's cooling, soothing vibe, this is one of the most popular songs for surgeons to listen to whilst performing operations.

Jen Chapin, the daughter of Cat's In The Cradle singer-songwriter Harry Chapin, covered this on her 2008 CD Light of Mine.

"Into the Mystic" has featured in several movies beginning in 1971 with Sweets McGee and two movies in 1989: Dream a Little Dream and Immediate Family. It was one of the songs played in the 1998 movie, Patch Adams and again in the 1999 movie, Kate's Addiction.

It was played as Jim and Michelle's first dance as a married couple in the 2003 movie, American Wedding, along with a cover version of the song by The Wallflowers.

The song most recently can be heard on the soundtrack of the HBO television show "The Newsroom" in the 2013 Season 2 premiere.

The lyrics:

We were born before the wind

Also younger than the sun

Ere the bonnie boat was one as we sailed into the mystic

Hark, now hear the sailors cry

Smell the sea and feel the sky

Let your soul and spirit fly into the mystic

And when that fog horn blows I will be coming home

And when the fog horn blows I want to hear it

I don't have to fear it

And I want to rock your gypsy soul

Just like way back in the days of old

And magnificently we will fold into the mystic

When that fog horn blows you know I will be coming home

And when that fog horn whistle blows I got to hear it

I don't have to fear it

And I want to rock your gypsy soul

Just like way back in the days of old

And together we will fold into the mystic

Come on girl...

Video hit Chris Isaak

Chris Isaak - Wicked Game

Wicked Game is a 1989 song by Chris Isaak from his third studio album Heart Shaped World.

Despite being released as a single in 1989, it did not become a hit until it was later featured in the David Lynch film Wild at Heart (1990). Lee Chesnut, an Atlanta radio station music director who loved David Lynch films, began playing the song and it quickly became a nationwide top ten hit in January 1991, reaching #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, making it the first hit song of his career. James Calvin Wilsey played the distinctive lead guitar solo on the song.

The song is written in the mode of B Dorian. Through several years, many different versions and arrangements of the song were made before the final version was released. Both the bassline and drums (except the cymbals) were sampled from previous recordings of the song and then looped.

The song is a ballad about unrequited love, performed in what Allmusic describes as a "brooding, sorrowfully conflicted" tone.

Use in popular culture

The song was used in the 1989 film The Preppie Murder director by John Herzfeld

The song was used as a theme for supercouple Jack and Jennifer in the soap opera Days of our Lives.

The song was used in the Brett Ratner film, The Family Man, the Ridley Scott film, Matchstick Men, and the David Lynch film, Wild at Heart; each starring Nicolas Cage.

The song was used in two episodes of Beverly Hills, 90210 "One Man and a Baby" from Season 1 and "Wildfire" from Season 2. It was also used in its spin-off 90210 in the season 3 episode "How Much Is That Liam in the Window".

The song was used in two episodes of Friends Season 2; "The One with the Prom Video" (2x14) and "The One Where Ross And Rachel...You Know" (2x15).

In Flight of the Conchords, the character Dave states that "Women like three things: Men in Kilts, Southern Comfort and Chris Isaak's Wicked Game."

The song was used in The Mentalist in the Season 4 Finale, "The Crimson Hat".

The song was used in the 1992 film Leaving Normal directed by Edward Zwick.

The song has been used in the soap operas The Young and the Restless, One Life to Live and General Hospital.

The master recording song was featured in Konami's rebooted version of their singing video game called Karaoke Revolution.

The song is covered by Pink on her 2013 tour, The Truth About Love Tour.

The song is covered by Phillip Phillips and available on the deluxe edition of his debut album, The World from the Side of the Moon.

John Pritchard auditioned with the song on The Voice UK (series 2) in 2013, and will.i.am turned his chair to become his coach.

The song is covered by Emika and available on her second album, Dva.

A cover of the song by Coves was also used in 2013 in the trailers for the BBC TV series The White Queen`.

The lyrics:

The world was on fire and no one could save me but you.

It's strange what desire will make foolish people do.

I never dreamed that I'd meet somebody like you.

And I never dreamed that I'd lose somebody like you.

No, I don't want to fall in love (This world is only gonna break your heart)

With you (This world is only gonna break your heart)

What a wicked game to play, to make me feel this way.

What a wicked thing to do, to let me dream of you.

What a wicked thing to say, you never felt this way.

What a wicked thing to do, to make me dream of you and,

I want to fall in love (This world is only gonna break your heart)

No, I want to fall in love (This world is only gonna break your heart)

With you.

The world was on fire and no one could save me but you.

It's strange what desire will make foolish people do.

I never dreamed that I'd love somebody like you.

And I never dreamed that I'd lose somebody like you,

No, I want to fall in love (This world is only gonna break your heart)

With you (This world is only gonna break your heart)

No, I... (This world is only gonna break your heart)

(This world is only gonna break your heart)

Nobody loves no one.

Video hit Tanita Tikaram

Tanita Tikaram - Dust On My Shoes

Tanita Tikaram, multi-million selling British singer songwriter, who shot to fame with her award winning album 'Ancient Heart' in 1988, will release her new and first album in eight years on Friday, August 31st via earMUSIC (edel).

Says Tikaram on the single: "I've always wanted to write a song like 'Dust On My Shoes', which is a simple freedom song.
The word 'freedom' becomes more and more important to all of us - in every choice, every political & moral decision and the attempt to live in a free way I find very moving. Hopefully, on the album you hear it in the playing, too!!".

"Dust On My Shoes" is already available as a digital single and is a warm soul record, enhanced by the evocative scenery of New York City, where the video was shot in May.

A good buzz is building at radio for the "return" of lovely Tanita, and the artist is preparing to hit stages again in the course of the album campaign: "I cant wait to get out there and start playing the new songs to everyone!".

The album "Can't Go Back" will feature 10 brand new songs. The special edition of the album will come in a digi pack and carry a bonus disc, with Tikaram performing 8 Tanita-classics acoustically.

The lyrics:

Put your arms around me, sometimes it feels so cold

'cause it telling me things I already know

every street preacher wants to waste my time

as if I needed lessons in how to live my life

Put your arms around, my heart is shaking

nobody knows the trouble Ive seen

working so hard when the day is breaking

working so hard while the city sleeps

my bodys so tired and I'm tired of thinking

digging for gold in a land of dreams

I want a chance of the life I'm missing

I wanna know what it means to be free

and I just want to know

what it is to let go

Taking long time to find the right faces

looking for a soul of every small town

traveling light, take in all the right places

dont wanna stay and be the last around

I gotta call home to the ones that love me

the ones who love me know I'm passing through

I'm on up to the land above me

dust in my hair and dust on my shoes

And I just want to know, what it is to let go

and I just gotta see, how it feels to be free

to be free

Working so hard to come together

working so hard just to live and breathe

trying so hard to make it better

if I trust in you, will you trust in me

they don't know what makes you happy

we can't see the joy you feel

storm clouds up in the skies above me

I don't have faith but I do believe

I just want to know, what it is to let go

and I just gotta see, how it feels

to be free, to be free

to be free, to be free, to be free

What it is to let go

how it feels to be free

what it is to let go

how it feels to be free, to be free

Video hit Suzanne Vega

Suzanne Vega - Rosemary (Remember Me)

This video is from a duo Music Exchange in Japan, 2005.

Suzanne Nadine Vega (born July 11, 1959) is an American songwriter and singer known for her eclectic folk-inspired music.

Two of Vega's songs (both from her second album Solitude Standing, 1987) reached the top 10 of various international chart listings: "Luka" and "Tom's Diner". The latter was originally an a cappella version on Vega's album, which was then remade in 1990 as a dance track produced by the British dance production team DNA.

While majoring in English literature at Barnard College, she performed in small venues in Greenwich Village, where she was a regular contributor to Jack Hardy's Monday night songwriters' group at the Cornelia Street Cafe and had some of her first songs published on Fast Folk anthology albums.

In 1984, she received a major label recording contract, making her one of the first Fast Folk artists to break out on a major label.

Vega's self-titled debut album was released in 1985 and was well received by critics in the U.S.;[4] it reached platinum status in the United Kingdom. Produced by Lenny Kaye and Steve Addabbo, the songs feature Vega's acoustic guitar in straightforward arrangements. A video was released for the album's song "Marlene on the Wall", which went into MTV and VH1's rotations. During this period Vega also wrote lyrics for two songs on Songs from Liquid Days by composer Philip Glass.

Her next effort, Solitude Standing (1987), garnered critical and commercial success including the hit single "Luka", an international success. "Luka" is written about, and from the point of view of, an abused child—at the time an uncommon subject for a pop hit. While continuing a focus on Vega's acoustic guitar, the music is more strongly pop-oriented and features fuller arrangements. The a cappella "Tom's Diner" from this album was later a hit, remixed by two British dance producers under the name DNA, in 1990. The track was originally a bootleg, until Vega allowed DNA to release through her record company, and it became her all-time biggest hit.

In the Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction (1994), when Vincent Vega (John Travolta) responds affirmatively to Mia Wallace (Uma Thurman)'s inquiry if he's related to Suzanne Vega, she replies, "So you're related to the folk singer Suzanne Vega". He replies, "Suzanne Vega's my cousin, who happened to become a folk singer."

The lyrics:

Do you remember when you walked with me

Down the street into the square?

How the women selling rosemary

Pressed the branches to your chest

Promised luck and all the rest

Put their fingers in your hair?

I had met you just the day before

Like an accident of fate

In the window there behind your door

How I wanted to break in

To that room beneath your skin

But all that would have to wait

In the Carmen of the Martyrs

With the statues in the courtyard

Whose heads and hands were taken

In the burden of the sun

I had come to meet you

With a question in my footsteps

I was going up the hillside

And the journey just begun

My sister says she never dreams at night

There are days when I know why

Those possibilities within her sight

With no way of coming true

'Cause some things just don't get through

Into this world, although they try

In the Carmen of the Martyrs

With the statues in the courtyard

Whose heads and hands were taken

In the burden of the sun

I had come to meet you

With a question in my footsteps.

I was going up the hillside

And the journey just begun.

And all I know of you

Is in my memory

And all I ask is you

Remember me

Video hit Lionel Richie

Lionel Richie - Say You, Say Me (Live at Symphonica In Rosso)

Say You, Say Me is an Oscar winning song, written and recorded by Lionel Richie for the film White Nights, starring Mikhail Baryshnikov and Gregory Hines.

Bowing at #40 on the Hot 100 on 9 November 1985, the single hit number one there and on the R&B singles charts in December 1985.

It became Richie's ninth number one on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart.

The track is not available on the soundtrack album to the film, because Motown did not want Richie's first single since the Can't Slow Down album was to appear on another record label. It finally appeared on the Dancing on the Ceiling album released in 1986.

The track won an Academy Award for Best Original Song and a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song as well.

In 2008, the song was ranked at #74 of the top songs of all time on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, commemorating the first 50 years of the chart.

Richie partially parodied his own song to "Beer You, Beer Me" for Homer Simpson when he guest starred as himself on The Simpsons.

Parodist "Weird Al" Yankovic featured a segment of the song in his "Polka Party!" polka medley.

Richie parodied his own song in an advert for British crisp manufacturers Walkers, appearing with English football legend and long-time Walkers advertiser Gary Lineker.

This song was also featured twice in Rio when Blu tries to make a move on Jewel, and when Tulio and Linda look at each other in macaw costumes (disguised as performers).

The lyrics:

Say you, say me; say it for always

That's the way it should be

Say you, say me; say it together

Naturally

I had a dream I had an awesome dream

People in the park playing games in the dark

And what they played was a masquerade

And from behind of walls of doubt a voice was crying out

(Chorus)

Say you, say me; say it for always

That's the way it should be

Say you, say me; say it together

Naturally

As we go down life's lonesome highway

Seems the hardest thing to do is to find a friend or two

A helping hand - Some one who understands

That when you feel you've lost your way

You've got some one there to say "I'll show you"

(Chorus)

Say you, say me; say it for always

That's the way it should be

Say you, say me; say it together

Naturally

So you think you know the answers - Oh no

'Couse the whole world has got you dancing

That's right - I'm telling you

It's time to start believing - Oh yes

Believing who you are: You are a shining star

(Chorus)

Say you, say me; say it for always

That's the way it should be

Say you, say me; say it together

Naturally

Say it together... naturally

Video hit Carlos Santana

Carlos Santana - Europa (live at Montreaux)

Carlos Santana wrote this for a girl who was stressed out and on drugs. Later, he played it backstage on a tour with Earth, Wind & Fire and they suggested he record it.

Despite the fact that there are no words in this song, it still gained very high prestige in the world of music. It is especially notable for Santana's guitar solo.

In Greek mythology, Europa was a mortal who was loved by Zeus, who, in the form of a white bull carried her off to Crete.

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