Video hit ABBA

ABBA - The Day Before You Came

Aceasta melodie o dedic regizorului Ovidiu Lazar, creatorul spectacolului de teatru Negustorul de timp de Matei Visniec.
Dedic melodia pentru modul magistral in care ea a fost folosita de regizor in spectacolul sus mentionat. 
The Day Before You Came is a song recorded and released by Swedish pop group ABBA, their second longest (behind Eagle) at almost 6:00 in length.

It was originally released in 1982 as both a single, and a track on the compilation album The Singles: The First Ten Years.

It was the final ABBA recording; however, it was not their final song to be released: the next single was "Under Attack", also featured on the album.

Björn Ulvaeus wrote the lyrics, which to some degree are influenced by his divorce from Agnetha Fältskog. He later said: "Even if 90% of the lyrics were fiction there are still feelings in songs like 'Winner Takes It All' and 'Day Before You Came' they have something from that time in them”.

Many years after the song was recorded, Michael Tretow, ABBA's longtime sound engineer, recalled Agnetha performing the lead with dimmed lights and said that the mood had become sad and everybody in the studio knew that 'this was the end'.

On this rumour, Stephen Emms of The Guardian continues the story by saying "finishing her vocals, our eroine was to remove her headphones and walk solemnly out into the daylight, never to return".

Benny said that in his opinion, "'The Day Before You Came' is the best lyric that Bjorn has written: it's a really good song, but not a good recording". He compared this to "Under Attack", recorded around the same time, which he described as "a wonderful recording, but not such a good song".

While reminiscing on the track at an interview for Mamma Mia! the musical, Björn said, "we thought it was a great song", but added that they also thought it would not work as it was so far removed from their previous material.

Frida said that there were "problems over how Agnetha would interpret it".

ABBA attempted many different ways of singing the song, eventually settling on a "haunted" style. In the version that got released, Agnetha sang as if she was hurt and vulnerable, rather than belting it out (which Bjorn implies she did in other takes).

Frida said the song was "a very different sound to what we had done before", and Björn added that they were "taking a chance". Frida said it was a "beautiful song".

In response to the interviewer commenting on their looking unhappy in the video clip, Frida said, "it was an unhappy time of our lives [as we were] on the verge of splitting up" and had started talking about the individual projects of each member. She adds that it was not an easy situation, arguably justifying the gloomy atmosphere as a parallel of their real lives as a part of ABBA.

Music video

The song was promoted by a music video clip filmed on 21 September 1982, and directed by the team of Kjell Sundvall and Kjell-Åke Andersson, breaking ABBA's eight-year directing relationship with Lasse Hallström.

The video featured Agnetha flirting with a stranger on a train, played by Swedish actor Jonas Bergström as Fältskog's love interest.

The bridge seen in the video clip is the Årstabron bridge, located in the southern part of the city. Within the context of the music video, the train on the bridge actually goes in wrong direction. In the clip, Agnetha waits at Tumba station for the train and ends up in the city. However, in reality the train seen on the bridge goes from the city to Tumba.

The parts of the video featuring all the members of ABBA were filmed at the China Theatre in Stockholm, nearby the Polar Music offices located in Berzelii Park.

There were several photo sessions done during filming at the theatre. One of them, known as "the green session", was taken in theatre's foyer.

Christopher Patrick, in ABBA: Let The Music Speak, says the final sequence in the music video, in which "the train [where the narrator meets her lover] shunts off into oblivion, leaving in its wake a bleak and deserted railway station", is a fitting metaphor for ABBA, having reached the end of their creative partnership.

The lyrics:

Must have left my house at eight, because I always do

My train, I'm certain, left the station just when it was due

I must have read the morning paper going into town

And having gotten through the editorial, no doubt I must have frowned

I must have made my desk around a quarter after nine

With letters to be read, and heaps of papers waiting to be signed

I must have gone to lunch at half past twelve or so

The usual place, the usual bunch

And still on top of this I'm pretty sure it must have rained

The day before you came

I must have lit my seventh cigarette at half past two

And at the time I never even noticed I was blue

I must have kept on dragging through the business of the day

Without really knowing anything, I hid a part of me away

At five I must have left, there's no exception to the rule

A matter of routine, I've done it ever since I finished school

The train back home again

Undoubtedly I must have read the evening paper then

Oh yes, I'm sure my life was well within it's usual frame

The day before you came

Must have opened my front door at eight o'clock or so

And stopped along the way to buy some chinese food to go

I'm sure I had my dinner watching something on tv

There's not, I think, a single episode of dallas that I didn't see

I must have gone to bed around a quarter after ten

I need a lot of sleep, and so I like to be in bed by then I must have read a while

The latest one by marilyn french or something in that style

It's funny, but I had no sense of living without aim

The day before you came

And turning out the light

I must have yawned and cuddled up for yet another night

And rattling on the roof I must have heard the sound of rain

The day before you came

Video hit Diana Krall

Diana Krall - All or Nothing at All (live)

All or Nothing at All is a song composed in 1939 by Arthur Altman, with lyrics by Jack Lawrence.

Frank Sinatra's 1939 recording of the song became a huge hit in 1943, when it was reissued by Columbia Records during the 1942-43 musicians' strike. The record peaked in the Billboard top two.

In a 1944 interview, Sinatra said of the delayed success of the song, "That was the song, a few days after Harry James and myself recorded it, that gave us our walking papers out of the old Victor Hugo Cafe (a major entertainment venue of the 1930s) on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood. The manager came up and waved his hands for us to stop. He said Harry's trumpet playing was too loud for the joint and my singing was just plain lousy and fired Harry, me and the entire band on the spot. He said the two of us couldn't draw flies as an attraction, and I guess he was right - the room was as empty as a barn. It's a funny thing about that song. The recording we made of it 5 years ago is now one of the top spots among the best sellers. But it's the same old recording. It's also the song I auditioned with for Tommy Dorsey, who signed me on the strength of it. And now it's my first big record."

Diana Jean Krall, OC, OBC (born November 16, 1964) is a Canadian jazz pianist and singer, known for her contralto vocals.

She has sold more than 6 million albums in the US and over 15 million worldwide.

On December 11, 2009, Billboard magazine named her the second Jazz artist of the 2000–09 decade, establishing her as one of the best-selling artists of her time.

She is the only jazz singer to have eight albums debuting at the top of the Billboard Jazz Albums.

To date, she has won two Grammy Awards and eight Juno Awards.

She has also earned nine gold, three platinum, and seven multi-platinum albums.

In 2000, she was awarded the Order of British Columbia.

In 2003 she was given an honorary Ph.D. (Fine Arts) from the University of Victoria.

In 2004, she was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame.

In 2005, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.

In 2008, Nanaimo Harbourfront Plaza was renamed Diana Krall Plaza.

She is an honorary board member of the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation.

Diana Krall is a Steinway Artist.

The lyrics:

All or nothing at all

Half a love never appealed to me

If your heart never could yield to me

Then I'd rather have nothing at all

All or nothing at all

If it's love there ain't no in-between

Why begin and cry for something that might have been

No I'd rather have nothing at all

Please don't put your lips so close to my cheek

Don't smile or I'll be lost beyond recall

The kiss in your eyes the touch of your hand makes me weak

And my heart may grow dizzy and fall

And if I fell under the spell of your call

I would be caught in the undertow

So you see I've got to say no

All or nothing at all

Video hit Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong - When The Saints Go Marching In

When the Saints Go Marching In, often referred to as "The Saints", is an American gospel hymn. The precise origins of the song are not known.

Though it originated as a Christian hymn, it is often played by jazz bands.

The song is sometimes confused with a similarly titled composition "When the Saints are Marching In" from 1896 by Katharine Purvis (lyrics) and James Milton Black (music).

The tune is particularly associated with the city of New Orleans. A jazz standard, it has been recorded by a great many jazz and pop artists.

Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound.

Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop tune in the 1930s. Armstrong wrote that his sister told him she thought the secular performance style of the traditional church tune was inappropriate and irreligious.

Armstrong was in a New Orleans tradition of turning church numbers into brass band and dance numbers that went back at least to Buddy Bolden's band at the start of the 20th century.

In New Orleans, the song is traditionally used as a funeral march at "jazz funerals". While accompanying the coffin to the cemetery, a band plays the tune as a dirge.

Returning from the interment, the band switches to the familiar upbeat "hot" or "Dixieland" style of play.

The lyrics:

Oh, when the saints go marching in

Oh, when the saints go marching in

I want to be in that number

When the saints go marching in

Oh, when the drums begin to bang

Oh, when the drums begin to bang

I want to be in that number

When the saints go marching in

Oh, when the stars fall from the sky

Oh, when the stars fall from the sky

I want to be in that number

When the saints go marching in

Oh, when the moon turns red with blood

Oh, when the moon turns red with blood

I want to be in that number

When the saints go marching in

Oh, when the trumpet sounds its call

Oh, when the trumpet sounds its call

I want to be in that number

When the saints go marching in

Oh, when the fire begins to blaze

Oh, when the fire begins to blaze

I want to be in that number

When the saints go marching in

Oh, when the saints go marching in

Oh, when the saints go marching in

I want to be in that number

When the saints go marching in.

Video hit Nat King Cole

Nat King Cole - When I Fall In Love

When I Fall in Love is a popular song, written by Victor Young (music) and Edward Heyman (lyrics).

It was introduced in the film One Minute to Zero.

Jeri Southern released the original version in April 1952 with the song's composer, Victor Young, handling the arranging and conducting duties.

The song has become a standard, with many artists recording it, though the first hit version was by Doris Day released in July 1952.

Nathaniel Adams Coles (March 17, 1919 – February 15, 1965), known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an American singer and musician who first came to prominence as a leading jazz pianist. He was widely noted for his soft, baritone voice, which he used to perform in big band and jazz genres.

Cole was one of the first African Americans to host a television variety show, The Nat King Cole Show, and has maintained worldwide popularity since his death from lung cancer in February 1965.

Cole was inducted into both the Alabama Music Hall of Fame and the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame. In 1990, he was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and in 1997 was inducted into the Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame.

In 2007, he was inducted into the Hit Parade Hall of Fame.

An official United States postage stamp featuring Cole's likeness was issued in 1994.

In 2000, Cole was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as one of the major influences on early rock and roll

The lyrics:

When I fall in love it will be forever

Or I'll never fall in love

In a restless world like this is

Love is ended before it's begun

And too many moonlight kisses

Seem to cool in the warmth of the sun

When I give my heart it will be completely

Or I'll never give my heart

And the moment I can feel that you feel that way too

Is when I fall in love with you.

And the moment I can feel that you feel that way too

Is when I fall in love with you.

Video hit Elvis Presley

Elvis Presley - Return to Sender

Return to Sender is a 1962 rock and roll hit single recorded by American singer Elvis Presley and published by Elvis Presley Music.

The song was written by Winfield Scott and Otis Blackwell.

Recorded on March 27, 1962, at Radio Recorders in Hollywood, it is about a man mailing a letter to his girlfriend after an argument. She continually writes "return to sender" and he keeps receiving the letter with various reasons for returning to sender, including "address unknown" and "no such person". He keeps mailing letters, refusing to believe the relationship is over.

Elvis performed "Return to Sender" in the film Girls! Girls! Girls!.

Featuring Presley's longtime cohorts Barney Kessel on electric guitar, Ray Siegal on double bass, D.J. Fontana on drums, Dudley Brooks on piano, Boots Randolph on baritone saxophone, and the Jordanaires on backing vocals, the song features an opening saxophone bar. Another saxophonist, Bobby Keys, claimed he performed the solo at the instigation of pianist Glen D. Hardin, in his 2012 memoir Every Night's A Saturday Night. However, Hardin did not meet Elvis until February 1970 when he joined his touring band. In addition, his claim is not supported by RCA, Ernst Jorgensen (the official archivist for Presley's recordings), or session logs.

The song peaked at number 1 on the United Kingdom music charts, and number 2 on the American Billboard singles chart, but reached number 1 on the rival Cash Box and Music Vendor singles charts.

"Return to Sender" also went to number five on the R&B charts.

It was the first Christmas number one in Ireland, as the Irish Charts had been founded in October 1962.

The single was certified "Platinum" by the RIAA for sales in excess of 1 million units in the US.

The lyrics:

I gave a letter to the postman,

he put it his sack.

Bright in early next morning,

he brought my letter back.

She wrote upon it:

Return to sender, address unknown.

No such number, no such zone.

We had a quarrel, a lover's spat

I write I'm sorry but my letter keeps coming back.

So then I dropped it in the mailbox

And sent it special D.

Bright in early next morning

it came right back to me.

She wrote upon it:

Return to sender, address unknown.

No such number, no such zone.

This time I'm gonna take it myself

and put it right in her hand.

And if it comes back the very next day

then I'll understand the writing on it

Return to sender, address unknown.

No such person, no such zone.

Video hit Bing Crosby

Bing Crosby - I've Got a Pocketful of Dreams

The neat trio of Bing Crosby, Fred MacMurray, and Donald O'Connor perform I've Got a Pocketful of Dreams in Sing You Sinners (1938).

Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby, Jr. (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an American singer and actor. Crosby's trademark bass-baritone voice made him one of the best-selling recording artists of the 20th century, with over half a billion records in circulation.

A multimedia star, from 1934 to 1954 Bing Crosby was a leader in record sales, radio ratings, and motion picture grosses.

His early career coincided with technical recording innovations; this allowed him to develop a laid-back, intimate singing style that influenced many of the popular male singers who followed him, including Perry Como, Frank Sinatra, and Dean Martin. Yank magazine recognized Crosby as the person who had done the most for American G.I. morale during World War II and, during his peak years, around 1948, polls declared him the "most admired man alive", ahead of Jackie Robinson and Pope Pius XII.

Also in 1948, the Music Digest estimated that Crosby recordings filled more than half of the 80,000 weekly hours allocated to recorded radio music.

During the "Golden Age of Radio", performers often had to recreate their live shows a second time for the west coast time zone. Through the medium of recording, Crosby constructed his radio programs with the same directorial tools and craftsmanship (editing, retaking, rehearsal, time shifting) being used in motion picture production. This became the industry standard.

Crosby won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Father Chuck O'Malley in the 1944 motion picture Going My Way, and was nominated for his reprise of the role in The Bells of St. Mary's opposite Ingrid Bergman the next year, becoming the first of four actors to be nominated twice for playing the same character.

In 1963, Crosby received the first Grammy Global Achievement Award.

Crosby is one of the 22 people to have three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (a star for motion pictures, radio, and audio recording).

Personal life

Crosby was married twice, first to actress/nightclub singer Dixie Lee from 1930 until her death from ovarian cancer in 1952.

They had four sons: Gary, twins Dennis and Phillip, and Lindsay. The 1947 film Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman is indirectly based on her life.

After Dixie's death, Crosby had relationships with model-Goldwyn Girl Pat Sheehan (who married his son, Dennis Crosby in 1958) and actresses Inger Stevens and Grace Kelly before marrying the actress Kathryn Grant in 1957.

They had three children: Harry Lillis III (who played Bill in Friday the 13th), Mary (best known for portraying Kristin Shepard, who shot J. R. Ewing on TV's Dallas), and Nathaniel.

Kathryn converted to Catholicism in order to marry the singer.

Crosby was also a registered Republican, and actively campaigned for Wendell Willkie in 1940 against President Roosevelt, arguing that no man should serve more than two terms in the White House.

After Willkie lost, Crosby decreed that he would never again make any open political contributions.

His last concert was in The Brighton Centre four days before his death, with British entertainer Dame Gracie Fields in attendance. Although it has been reported that Crosby's last photograph was taken with Fields[citation needed], he was photographed playing golf on the day he died.

At the conclusion of his work in England, Crosby flew alone to Spain to hunt and play golf. Shortly after 6 pm on October 14, Crosby collapsed and died of a massive heart attack on the green after a round of 18 holes of golf near Madrid where he and a golfing partner had just defeated two Spanish pros. It is widely written that his last words were "That was a great game of golf, fellas”.

The lyrics:

I'm no millionaire but I'm not the type to care

'Cause I've got a pocketful of dreams

It's my universe, even with an empty purse

'Cause I've got a pocketful of dreams

I wouldn't take the wealth of Wall Street

For a road where nature trods

And I calculate that I'm worth my weight in goldenrods

Lucky, lucky me, I can live in luxury

'Cause I've got a pocketful of dreams

Oh, I'm no millionaire but I'm not the type to care

'Cause I've got a pocketful of dreams

It's my universe, even with an empty purse

'Cause I've got a pocketful of dreams

I wouldn't take the wealth of Wall Street

For a road where nature trods

And I calculate that I'm worth my weight in goldenrods

Lucky, lucky me, I can live in luxury

'Cause I've got a pocketful of dreams

Video hit Frank Sinatra

Frank Sinatra - Strangers in the Night (live)

Strangers in the Night is a popular song composed by Bert Kaempfert with English lyrics by Charles Singleton and Eddie Snyder. Kaempfert originally used it under the title "Beddy Bye" as part of the instrumental score for the movie A Man Could Get Killed.

The song was made famous in 1966 by Frank Sinatra.

Reaching number one on both the Billboard Hot 100 chart and the Easy Listening chart, it was the title song for Sinatra's 1966 album Strangers in the Night, which became his most commercially successful album. The song also reached number one on the UK Singles Chart.

Sinatra's recording won him the Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance and the Grammy Award for Record of the Year, as well as a Grammy Award for Best Arrangement Accompanying a Vocalist or Instrumentalist for Ernie Freeman at the Grammy Awards of 1967.

One of the most memorable and recognizable features of the record is Sinatra's scat improvisation of the melody with the syllables "doo-be-doo-be-doo" as the song fades to the end. Many fans lament the fact that the fade was early and Sinatra's improvisation is cut off too soon.

Sinatra despised the song, calling it at one time "a piece of shit" and "the worst fucking song that I have ever heard."

He was not afraid to voice his disapproval of playing it live. In spite of his contempt for the song, for the first time in eleven years he had a number one song, and it remained on the charts for fifteen weeks. Italian-American tenor Sergio Franchi (among many others) covered the song on his 1967 RCA Victor album From Sergio - with Love.

The lyrics:

Strangers in the night exchanging glances

Wondering in the night

What were the chances we'd be sharing love

Before the night was through

Something in your eyes was so inviting

Something in your smile was so exciting

Something in my heart told me I must have you

Strangers in the night, two lonely people

We were strangers in the night

Up to the moment when we said our first hello

Little did we know

Love was just a glance away

A warm embracing dance away

And ever since that night we've been together

Lovers at first sight, in love forever

It turned out so right for strangers in the night

Love was just a glance away

A warm embracing dance away

Ever since that night we've been together

Lovers at first sight, in love forever

It turned out so right for strangers in the night

Video hit Sarah Brightman & Antonio Banderas

Sarah Brightman & Antonio Banderas - The Phantom of the Opera (live, 1998)

The Phantom of the Opera is a song from the stage musical of the same name, composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, sung by Sarah Brightman and Michael Crawford, lyrics written by Charles Hart and Richard Stilgoe, and additional lyrics by Mike Batt.

The song is performed in Act I after the song "Angel of Music" (The Mirror) and before "The Music of the Night" (and is reprised in Act Two at the end of the song "Notes/Twisted Every Way"). It takes place as the Phantom escorts Christine by boat to his lair beneath the Opera Garnier. It is sung as a duet by Christine and the Phantom. In this song, Christine sings her highest note in the show, an E6, at the end of the song. In different shows, Sarah Brightman sings this song in different duets with other performers Steve Harley, Antonio Banderas, Chris Thompson, Alessandro Safina, Mario Frangoulis, Colm Wilkinson, Anthony Warlow, John Owen-Jones, Peter Jöback and Erkan Aki.

The lyrics:

CHRISTINE:

In sleep he sang to me

In dreams he came

That voice which calls to me

And speaks my name

And do I dream again?

For now I find

The Phantom of the Opera is there

Inside my mind

PHANTOM:

Sing once again with me

Our strange duet

My power over you

Grows stronger yet

And though you turn from me

To glance behind

The Phantom of the Opera is there

Inside your mind

CHRISTINE:

All those who've seen your face

Draw back in fear

I am the mask you wear

PHANTOM:

It's me they hear

BOTH:

Your/my spirit and my/your voice

In one combined

The Phantom of the Opera is there

Inside my/your mind

VOICES:

He's there, the Phantom of the Opera

Beware, the Phantom of the Opera...

PHANTOM:

In all your fantasies

You always knew

That man and mystery

CHRISTINE:

Were both in you

BOTH:

And in this labyrinth

Where night is blind

The Phantom of the Opera is there

Inside my/your my mind

PHANTOM:

Sing, my angel of music!

CHRISTINE:

He's there, the Phantom of the Opera

Ah!

PHANTOM:

Sing, my angel, sing!

CHRISTINE:

Ah!

PHANTOM:

Sing for me!

CHRISTINE:

Ah!

PHANTOM:

Sing, my angel of music!

CHRISTINE:

Ah!

Video hit Michael Bublé

Michael Bublé - Everything

Everything is a Grammy Award-nominated single, recorded by Canadian singer Michael Bublé, and released as the lead single from his third major-label studio album, Call Me Irresponsible. Unlike most of Bublé's previous material, the song carries an adult contemporary sound.

Bublé wrote the lyrics of "Everything" for his then girlfriend Emily Blunt.

He later explained: "I wrote the song about the great happiness of real love, but at the same time I was making a statement about the world. We’re living in really crazy times, and I wanted to say that no matter what’s happening, this person in my life is what really makes it worthwhile."

Unlike Bublé's other work, this song strays away from being big band oriented, and carries a more adult contemporary sound, carrying some elements of pop and rock.

It is completely devoid of a horn section, as well as being guitar driven. A piano and an acoustic guitar carry the main melody of the song, with electric guitars audible in the chorus. Bublé's vocal arrangement is also different to his previous material; his voice often makes big interval changes in most of his material, but his voice in this particular song is projected smoothly without going into loud intervals. It is comparable to his previous hit, and adult contemporary single, "Home", from the album It's Time.

The music video for the song features scenes of Bublé performing the song into a mic, as well as holding an open audition for actors and entertainers to appear in the video, finally choosing the right candidate at the end.

The video was posted on the popular video sharing site YouTube, where to date it has received over forty-three million hits. Bono impersonator Pavel Sfera makes a cameo appearances in the video.

In Italy, the song topped the digital singles chart in April 2007, before reaching the top of the overall singles chart over a year later in June 2008.

The lyrics:

You're a falling star, you're the get away car.

You're the line in the sand when I go too far.

You're the swimming pool, on an August day.

And you're the perfect thing to say.

And you play it coy but it's kinda cute.

Ah, when you smile at me you know exactly what you do.

Baby don't pretend that you don't know it's true.

'cause you can see it when I look at you.

[Chorus:]

And in this crazy life, and through these crazy times

It's you, it's you, you make me sing.

You're every line, you're every word, you're everything.

You're a carousel, you're a wishing well,

And you light me up, when you ring my bell.

You're a mystery, you're from outer space,

You're every minute of my everyday.

And I can't believe, uh that I'm your man,

And I get to kiss you baby just because I can.

Whatever comes our way, ah we'll see it through,

And you know that's what our love can do.

[Chorus]

So, la, la, la, la, la, la, la

So, la, la, la, la, la, la, la

[Chorus:]

And in this crazy life, and through these crazy times

It's you, it's you, you make me sing.

You're every line, you're every word, you're everything.

You're every song, and I sing along.

'Cause you're my everything.

Yeah, yeah

So, la, la, la, la, la, la, la

So, la, la, la, la, la, la, la

Video hit Reamonn

Reamonn - Colder

Reamonn is a German pop rock band. They have recorded six albums.

In 1997, Rea Garvey left his band The Reckless Pedestrians and home town of Tralee, Ireland to go to Germany with not a lot of money and a demo CD in his pocket. He put an ad into local paper Stockacher Anzeiger stating, "Singer requires band for recording and live shows". Mike Gommeringer (Gomezz) saw this ad and accurately assumed it must have been Garvey, whose original band he had once seen play live. The twosome met up and subsequently recruited Uwe, Sebi and Phil.

Their first gig was played on New Year's Eve 1998 in Stockach.

"Reamonn" is the Irish for "Raymond".

In order to secure a recording contract, they set up a showcase at Logo, a small club in Hamburg, in front of 16 representatives from various record labels in 1999. The band was quickly offered several contracts, settling on signing with Virgin Records Germany.

As of 2006 they are now releasing their music through Universal Music.

Reamonn's first chart success came with "Supergirl," a track that received heavy airplay on Pop stations in Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Austria. Taken from the album "Tuesday," it reached the top 10 in 2000 in each of those countries.

The track "Alright" is perhaps one of the signature songs from Reamonn's early period. Performing at the Roxy in Hollywood, CA to impress record executives, the band performed the song twice. Alas, the crowd was sparse, as most of the action was at the Viper Room to catch then-hot British talent Jem.

This was the mid-2000s and Reamonn never got the U.S. deal. Back in Europe, however, their popularity continued to soar with a mix of radio-friendly sounds. To date, their most successful "international" single is "Tonight," from the Wish album. Released in summer 2006, the track hit No. 1 in Romania, but did not crack the top 10 in Germany. The track also opened Reamonn up to new markets, such as Greece and Portugal, where the band continues to receive airplay.

On July 7, 2007 the band performed at the German leg of Live Earth in Hamburg's HSH Nordbank Arena. The same year Garvey provided vocals for Trance DJ Paul van Dyk's song "Let Go".

On July 24, 2008 the group was chosen as the opening act for Barack Obama's speech at The Siegessäule in Berlin, before an estimated crowd of 200,000.

The band made the then United States Senator an honorary Reamonn member, presenting him with a band ring.

On December 20, 2008 Reamonn played their song "Faith" as an entrance theme for boxer Nikolai Valuev leading up to his WBA championship fight versus Evander Holyfield in Zürich.

Song "Faith" was official song of 2009 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters season.

In November 2009, Reamonn went on a world tour with Status Quo as a support band.

On August 27, 2010 Reamonn released their Best Of album called Eleven which features 3 new tracks: the new singles Yesterday and Colder plus Let The Morning Sleep. On the CD there are 11 songs on each of the 2 disks taken from every album Reamonn recorded. The Deluxe Edition features a DVD with all the videos and some live tracks.

In December 2010, Reamonn released their DVD Eleven: Live At The Casino.

The first solo single of Rea Garvey is called 'Can't stand the silence' and was released on 9 September 2011. An album with the same name was released on 30 September 2011. Later, 'Can't stand the silence the encore edition' was released, featuring a few new songs including the single 'Wild Love'. The tour in support of the album consisted of dates in Germany during 2011 and 2012 and continued on in 2013 with new dates also outside Germany: in Switzerland, France, Ireland, the UK, Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. For the 2013 dates, Ryan Sheridan is the support act.

Rea Garvey is also a member of the jury for 'The Voice of Germany'.

The members of Reamonn, except for Rea Garvey, teamed up with Thomas Hanreich to form the band Stereolove.

They released their first album 'Stereo loves you' in September 2012.

They also announced a DVD for release in 2013.

The lyrics:

It's getting colder now

The sun goes down behind

The trees that use to shutter the worry from your mind

It's getting colder now

Since you walked out that door

The space you left is endless

The emptiness is grown

And all I know is it's getting colder now

I can't stand that you're leaving

I know that it's not right

And all I know is it's getting colder now

And no one can replace you

I need you by my side

Is this really over now?

Is this our last goodbye?

With nothing left between us

With nothing left to try

Is this really over now?

Just look me in the eyes

Say that you don't feel it

And say that I'm not right

All I know

All I know

All I know

All I know

Is it's getting colder now

And no one can replace you

I need you by my side

Is it's getting colder now

And no one can replace you

I need you by my side

Is it's getting colder now

And no one can replace you

I need you by my side

It's getting colder now

Video hit Maroon 5

Maroon 5 - Won't Go Home Without You

Won't Go Home Without You is a ballad and the third single released from Maroon 5's second album, It Won't Be Soon Before Long (2007).

Music video

On August 16, 2007, Maroon 5 posted a notice on their official website asking for fans to send in homemade videos to help the band make the video for this song; however, in October 2007, another video was released in Europe and Australia. The official video has premiered on VH1 Top 20 Countdown on December 1, 2007. It is also now playing on their official website.

The song's music video starts with flashbacks where Adam Levine (Maroon 5's lead singer) and a female character (portrayed by Tania Raymonde) appear to have an argument upon which Levine decides to leave. The video then cuts to Levine sitting in a chair thinking it over with the rest of the band performing in the background. Adam realizes that he 'will not go home without you', referring to the female he had walked out on. Levine appears to know where the woman is at the moment and decides to look for her. After having meandered through the city for a few hours, Levine eventually gets to a restaurant where he finds the woman, but to his disappointment, she is with another man. The music video was directed by Sophie Muller.

This video features Jesse Carmichael playing both piano and guitar.

The song was nominated for Best Pop Performance from a Duo or Group with Vocals at the 51st Grammy Awards, though this award went to Coldplay for their song "Viva la Vida".

The lyrics:

I asked her to stay but she wouldn't listen

She left before I had the chance to say

Oh

The words that would mend the things that were broken

But now it's far too late, she's gone away

Every night you cry yourself to sleep

Thinking: "Why does this happen to me?

Why does every moment have to be so hard?"

Hard to believe that

It's not over tonight

Just give me one more chance to make it right

I may not make it through the night

I won't go home without you

The taste of your breath, I'll never get over

The noises that she made kept me awake

Oh

The weight of things that remained unspoken

Built up so much it crushed us everyday

Every night you cry yourself to sleep

Thinking: "Why does this happen to me?

Why does every moment have to be so hard?"

Hard to believe that

It's not over tonight

Just give me one more chance to make it right

I may not make it through the night

I won't go home without you

It's not over tonight

Just give me one more chance to make it right

I may not make it through the night

I won't go home without you

Of all the things I felt but never really shown

Perhaps the worst is that I ever let you go

I should not ever let you go, oh oh oh

It's not over tonight

Just give me one more chance to make it right

I may not make it through the night

I won't go home without you

It's not over tonight

Just give me one more chance to make it right

I may not make it through the night

I won't go home without you

And I won't go home without you

And I won't go home without you

And I won't go home without you

Video hit Laura Pausini

Laura Pausini - La Soledad (live, Barcelona, 2009)

Soledad, Spanish for "solitude", often refers to María de la Soledad (Our Lady of Solitude), a variant name of Mary the mother of Jesus, in Roman Catholic tradition.

In 1994, Laura Pausini released a Spanish language version of the song, titled "La soledad" and included in her first Spanish language album, Laura Pausini. An English language version of the song, adapted by Tim Rice and titled "La solitudine (Loneliness)" was recorded by Laura Pausini and released as a single on 19 June 1995 to promote her self-titled compilation album.

The song was re-recorded as a slower, more dramatic ballad with live instrumentation for her 2001 compilation album The Best of Laura Pausini: E ritorno da te.

The same arrangement was used for the new version of the Spanish counterpart of the song, included in Lo mejor de Laura Pausini: Volveré junto a ti.

On February 1, 2013, Pausini confirmed on her official website that all the three original versions of the song will be compiled together and released on iTunes as a celebration for her twenty career anniversary. It was be released one day before the day she won the Sanremo Music Festival, on February 26, 2013.

The lyrics to the Italian version of the song where are about a boy named Marco, who is separated from his girlfriend at the urging of his family and sent to live far away from her. The now former girlfriend makes an emotional and heartfelt plea, singing to him about the loneliness and pain they would feel without each other.

Interviewed by Italian journalist Gianni Minà, Pausini declared that the song is strongly autobiographical: "In the beginning the song started with the words 'Anna se n'è andata' [Anna went away] instead of 'Marco se n'è andato'. But the rest of the story was exactly the photograph of my life until that moment [...]. I had never met those two authors before and, even if Valsiglio and the other composers continued to give me new songs, I told my father that I wanted to sing that one only, just changing the name to Marco, because the development of the song looked to be a copy of what was happening to me. Marco was my boyfriend in the same period, and this is why, when I was singing that song, I was feeling moved."

The English-language version of the song, adapted by Tim Rice, has a completely different meaning, and it doesn't contain any reference to Marco.

Its lyrics are focused on the feelings of those who want to be alone in order to better understand themselves.

According to Univision's Fabiana Steinmander, Laura Pausini's "La solitudine" is a song "with a high degree of difficulty because of the number of vocal transitions and the modulation it demands of its singer”.

The Spanish version of the album, Laura Live Gira Mundial 09, features a recording of the song performed in Barcelona and it’s here, on this post.

The lyrics (spanish version):

Marco se ha marchado para no volver

El tren de la maana llega ya sin l

Es slo un corazn con alma de metal

En esa niebla gris que envuelve la ciudad

Su banco est vaco, Marco sigue en m

Le siento respirar, pienso que sigue aqu

Ni la distancia enorme puede dividir

Dos corazones y un solo latir

Quiz si t piensas en m

Si a nadie t quieres hablar

Si t te escondes como yo

Si huyes de todo y si te vas

Pronto a la cama sin cenar

Si aprietas fuerte contra t

La almohada y te echas a llorar

Si t no sabes cuanto mal te har la soledad

Miro en mi diario tu fotografa

Con ojos de muchacho un poco tmido

La aprieto contra el pecho y me parece que

Ests aqu, entre ingls y matemticas

Tu padre y sus consejos, que monotona

Por causa del trabajo y otras tonteras

Te ha llevado lejos sin contar contigo

Te ha dicho, "Un da lo comprenders"

Quiz si t piensas en m

Con los amigos te vers

Tratando slo de olvidar

No es nada fcil, la verdad

En clase ya no puedo ms

Y por las tardes es peor

No tengo ganas de estudiar, por t

Mi pensamiento va

Es imposible dividir as la vida de los dos

Por eso, esprame, cario mio conserva la ilusin

La soledad entre los dos

Este silencio en mi interior

Esa inquietud de ver pasar

As la vida sin tu amor

Por eso, esprame, porque

Esto no puede suceder

Es imposible separar

As la historia de los dos