Video hit Bob Marley

Bob Marley - Get Up, Stand Up (live)

Get Up, Stand Up is a reggae song written by Bob Marley and Peter Tosh.

The song originally appeared on The Wailers' 1973 album Burnin'. It was recorded and played live in numerous versions by The Wailers and Bob Marley & The Wailers, along with solo versions by Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer. It was later included on the compilations Legend and Rebel Music, among others.

Marley wrote the song while flying out of Haiti, deeply moved by its poverty and the lives of Haitians, according his then-girlfriend Esther Anderson.

The song was frequently performed at Marley's concerts, often as the last song. "Get Up, Stand Up" was also the last song Marley ever performed on stage, on September 23, 1980 at the Stanley Theater in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

On his DVD Live at the Hollywood Bowl, artist Ben Harper relates a childhood experience in which, during a 1978 Bob Marley concert at the Starlight Amphitheater, Peter Tosh showed up unannounced as this song was being performed, took the microphone from Marley and started singing the last verse of the song to thunderous applause. Tosh was on tour opening for the Rolling Stones at the time.

The lyrics:

Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!

Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!

Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!

Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight!

Preacher man, don't tell me,

Heaven is under the earth.

I know you don't know

What life is really worth.

It's not all that glitters is gold;

'Alf the story has never been told:

So now you see the light, eh!

Stand up for your rights. come on!

Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!

Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight!

Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!

Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight!

Most people think,

Great god will come from the skies,

Take away everything

And make everybody feel high.

But if you know what life is worth,

You will look for yours on earth:

And now you see the light,

You stand up for your rights. jah!

Get up, stand up! (jah, jah! )

Stand up for your rights! (oh-hoo! )

Get up, stand up! (get up, stand up! )

Don't give up the fight! (life is your right! )

Get up, stand up! (so we can't give up the fight! )

Stand up for your rights! (lord, lord! )

Get up, stand up! (keep on struggling on! )

Don't give up the fight! (yeah! )

We sick an' tired of-a your ism-skism game -

Dyin' 'n' goin' to heaven in-a Jesus' name, lord.

We know when we understand:

Almighty god is a living man.

You can fool some people sometimes,

But you can't fool all the people all the time.

So now we see the light (what you gonna do?),

We gonna stand up for our rights! (yeah, yeah, yeah! )

So you better:

Get up, stand up! (in the morning! git it up! )

Stand up for your rights! (stand up for our rights! )

Get up, stand up!

Don't give up the fight! (don't give it up, don't give it up! )

Get up, stand up! (get up, stand up! )

Stand up for your rights! (get up, stand up! )

Get up, stand up! (... )

Don't give up the fight! (get up, stand up! )

Get up, stand up! (... )

Stand up for your rights!

Get up, stand up!

Don't give up the fight! 

Video hit Marillion

Marillion - Kayleigh

Kayleigh was a number two UK hit for British neo-progressive rock band Marillion in 1985.

It remains the group's most successful single in terms of chart position. The single was kept from the UK Number 1 spot by charity single "You'll Never Walk Alone" by supergroup The Crowd in the summer of 1985. It also made the top 10 in Ireland, Norway and France. "Kayleigh" is the band's sole appearance on the USA's Billboard Hot 100, hitting #74 in 1986.

The song received a great deal of media exposure in the UK. 41 Independent Local Radio stations in Britain had the track A-rated on their playlists and it became the most played single on BBC Radio 1. The band also made appearances on television shows such as Wogan and Top of the Pops. The song was also featured on the soundtrack of the video game Grand Theft Auto IV on the fictional in-game station "Vice City FM" and in the movie Late Night Shopping.

The promotional video for the single was shot in Berlin, where the Misplaced Childhood album was recorded, and featured Tamara Nowy, a German woman who subsequently married lead singer Fish, and Robert Mead, the boy portrayed on the sleeve of the album and the single.

The song was performed by Fish at the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute at Wembley Stadium, with Midge Ure on guitar and Phil Collins on drums.

Fish has said that his writing the song was 'his way of apologizing to some of the women he had dated in the past.' Although the lead singer and lyricist of the band, Fish, had at one point dated a woman whose forenames were Kay Leigh, the song was more a composite of several different women with whom he had had relationships.

The guitar hook line through the verse came about, according to Steve Rothery, from him demonstrating to his then girlfriend what effects a chorus and a delay pedal could add to a guitar's sound. Rothery recorded the song on a chorused Stratocaster guitar, using the pick and his second and third fingers to play it. The album version features an extended guitar solo by Rothery, 27 seconds of which is edited for the single version.

On 24 October 2012, Marillion announced on Facebook that "Sad news via Fish - Kay - who inspired our song Kayleigh - has sadly died. RIP Kay

The song's popularity in the summer of 1985 was responsible for a significant rise in popularity of the name Kayleigh. In late 2005, 96% of Kayleighs living in the United Kingdom were born after 1985. Studies of girls' first names show that it was not in the top 100 most popular names in Scotland before 1975. By 1997, however, twelve years after the song's release, the name was the 30th most popular girls' name in the country.

By 2001, Kayleigh had become the 75th most popular girls' name in England and Wales.

In 2012, it was announced that the Scottish Borders Council was to inscribe extracts from the song's lyrics into the pavement at the newly-developed Market Square in Galashiels. Council engineer David Johnstone said the authority felt it was appropriate to mark the links between Galashiels and the song: "The lyrics from the song Kayleigh included reference to the old textiles college. Some of the lyrics referred to 'dawn escapes from moon-washed college halls' and 'do you remember cherry blossom in the market square?' There was a feeling that these lyrics were really appropriate and because of the connection between the singer and Galashiels that it would be appropriate to engrave some of those lyrics into the paving and make more of a feature of it." Mr Johnstone also said the original cherry trees referred to in the song had been removed due to disease but they would be replaced.

On 8th October 2012, Aberdeen based rappers Shy & DRS released "The Love is Gone", featuring lyrics and vocals from Sandi Thom. The song samples "Kayleigh". It reached no.7 in the iTunes Hip Hop Chart.

The lyrics:

Do you remember, chalk hearts melting on a playground wall?

Do you remember, dawn escaped from moonwashed college halls?

Do you remember, the cherry blossom in the market square?

Do you remember, I thought it was confetti in our hair

By the way didn't I break your heart?

Please excuse me, I never meant to break your heart.

So sorry I never meant to break your heart.

But you broke mine.

Kayleigh is it too late to say I'm sorry.

Kayleigh could we get it together again.

I can't go on pretending that it came to a natural end.

Kayleigh I never thought I'd miss you,

And Kayleigh I'd hoped that we'd always be friends.

We said our love would last forever,

So how did it come to this bitter end.

Do you remember, barefoot on the lawn with shooting stars

Do you remember, loving on the floor in Belsize Park

Do you remember, dancing in stilletos in the snow

Do you remember, you never understood I had to go.

By the way, didn't I break your heart ?

Please excuse me I never meant to break your heart

So sorry, I never meant to break your heart,

But you broke mine.

Kayleigh, I just want to say I'm sorry,

But Kayleigh I'm too scared to pick up the phone.

To find you've found another lover to patch up our broken home.

Kayleigh, I'm still trying to write that love song,

Kayleigh it's more important to me now you're gone.

Maybe it'll prove that we were right

Or it will prove that I was wrong.

Video hit Manic Street Preachers

Manic Street Preachers - If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next (live)

If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next is a single by Welsh alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers. It was released on 24 August 1998, through Epic Records as the first single from their fifth studio album This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours.

The song's theme is taken from the Spanish Civil War, and the idealism of Welsh volunteers who joined the left-wing International Brigades, fighting Francisco Franco's military rebels against the Spanish Republic. The song takes its name from a Republican poster of the time, displaying a photograph of a young child killed by the Nationalists under a sky of bombers with the stark warning "If you tolerate this, your children will be next" written at the bottom.

Various works on the Spanish Civil War were the inspiration for this song, and certain lyrics pertain directly to these works. For example, the line "If I can shoot rabbits/then I can shoot fascists" is attributed to a remark made by a man who signed up with the Republican fighters to his brother in an interview years later. This was originally quoted in the book Miners Against Fascism by Hywel Francis. Another work George Orwell's first-hand account, "Homage to Catalonia". "I've walked Las Ramblas/but not with real intent" brings to mind the account in Orwell's book of fighting on the Ramblas, with the various factions seemingly getting nowhere, with the fighting and often a sense of camaraderie overriding the vaunted principles each side was supposed to be fighting for. Wire has also acknowledged that he was also inspired by a song by The Clash, "Spanish Bombs", which has a similar subject.

The song is in the Guinness World Records as the number one single with the longest title without brackets.

The song was voted number 20 on Channel 4's "100 Greatest Number One Singles" list.

The lyrics:

The future teaches you to be alone

The present to be afraid and cold

So if I can shoot rabbits

Then I can shoot fascists

Bullets for your brain today

But we'll forget it all again

Monuments put from pen to paper

Turns me into a gutless wonder

And if you tolerate this

Then your children will be next

And if you tolerate this

Then your children will be next

Will be next

Will be next

Will be next

Gravity keeps my head down

Or is it maybe shame

At being so young and being so vain

Holes in your head today

But I'm a pacifist

I've walked La Ramblas

But not with real intent

And if you tolerate this

Then your children will be next

And if you tolerate this

Then your children will be next

Will be next

Will be next

Will be next

Will be next

And on the street tonight an old man plays

With newspaper cuttings of his glory days

And if you tolerate this

Then your children will be next

And if you tolerate this

Then your children will be next

Will be next

Will be next

Will be next

Video hit Barry White

Barry White - You're the First, the Last, My Everything (live)

You're the First, the Last, My Everything is a popular song recorded by Barry White.

Written by White, Tony Sepe and Peter Radcliffe and produced by White, "You're the First, The Last, My Everything" was White's fourth top ten hit on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, reaching #2; it spent a week at #1 on the Billboard Hot Soul Singles chart.

The early disco classic made it to number two on the disco/dance charts. In the UK it fared even better, spending two weeks at the top in December 1974. It appeared on White's 1974 album Can't Get Enough.

Radcliffe originally wrote "You're the First, The Last, My Everything" as a country song with the title "You're My First, You're My Last, My In-Between", which went unrecorded for 21 years. White recorded it as a disco song, keeping most of the structure and two-thirds of the title, but he rewrote the lyrics.

In popular culture

The song is featured in the films Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004).

The song also features in the movie Money Talks with Charlie Sheen and Chris Tucker.

The song is also featured in the 2011 movie Zookeeper starring Kevin James

The song is also featured in several Ally McBeal episodes, accompanying John Cage (Peter MacNicol) during his life most of the time. Whenever he gets into a difficult situation, he withdraws and concentrates on the song, hearing it and dancing to it, to regain strength and concentrate on whatever comes along.

The song is featured in an Indonesian Bebelac 3 commercial.

The song was used anachronistically in Tim Burton's film Dark Shadows (2012) as the film was set in 1972, two years before the song was released.

The song will be featured in the music video game Just Dance 4.

The song was sung by Nicholas David on Season 3 of The Voice (U.S.).

The lyrics:

My first, my last, my everything,

And the answer to all my dreams.

You're my sun, my moon, my guiding star.

My kind of wonderful, that's what you are.

I know there's only, only one like you

There's no way they could have made two.

You're, you're all I'm living for

Your love I'll keep for evermore.

You're the first, my last, my everything.

In you I've found so many things,

A love so new, only you could bring.

Can't you see if you,

You'll make me feel this way,

You're like a first morning dew on a brand new day.

I see so many ways that I can love you,

'Till the day I die....

You're my reality, yet I'm lost in a dream.

You're my first, my last, my everything.

[instrumental]

I know there's only one, only one like you

There's no way they could have made two.

Girl, you're my reality.

But I'm lost in a dream,

You're the first, you're the last, my everything. 

Video hit Elton John

Elton John - Crocodile Rock

Crocodile Rock is a song written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin, and recorded in January 1972 at Trident Studios, London. It was released on 27 October 1972 in the UK and 20 November 1972 in the U.S., as a pre-release single from his forthcoming 1973 album Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player, and became his first U.S. number-one single, reaching the top spot on 3 February 1973, and stayed there for three weeks. In the U.S., it was certified Gold on 5 February 1973 and Platinum on 13 September 1995 by the RIAA.

In Canada, it topped the chart as well, remaining at No.1 on the RPM 100 national singles chart for four weeks from 17 February – 10 March.

It was the first song released as a single on the MCA label (catalogue #40000) after MCA dissolved its Uni, Decca, Kapp and Coral labels. (John had previously been with the Uni label).

"Crocodile Rock" is dominated by a Farfisa organ, played by John, with a carnival-like sound and honky-tonk rhythm. The lyrics take a nostalgic look at early rock 'n' roll, and dating and youthful independence in that era. Regular Elton John band members, such as Davey Johnstone and Nigel Olsson, are among the song's performers.

Like "Tennessee Waltz", "Crocodile Rock" is a self-referential song, i.e. a song about the song itself, although Ken Mackintosh had a popular song in 1955 called the "Crocodile Crawl", following up his successful song "The Creep" from 1954, so it may also be paying homage to Britain's skiffle and postwar jazz era of music.

The song was inspired by John's discovery of leading Australian band Daddy Cool and their hit single, with 1,000,000 sold. "Eagle Rock", which was the most successful Australian single of the early 1970s, remaining at No.1 for a record of 10 weeks. John heard the song and the group on his 1972 Australian tour and was greatly impressed by it.

The cover of John's 1973 album Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player (the album on which "Crocodile Rock" is included) features a photo of John's lyricist Bernie Taupin wearing a "Daddy Who?" promotional badge. The song also appears to have been strongly influenced by songs from the late 50s-early 60s ("when Rock was young"), including Del Shannon's 1962 "Cry Myself to Sleep" and "Little Darlin'", most famously recorded in 1957 by The Diamonds (originally recorded by The Gladiolas.) The chorus resembles "Speedy Gonzales" by Pat Boone. While there was no actual "Crocodile Rock", there was a dance called The Alligator.

Bernie Taupin also stated in an interview with a magazine that Crocodile Rock was a funny song in that he didn't mind creating it but it wouldn't be something he'd listen to, but it was something fun at the time.

Covers and tributes

Between 1972 and 1974, this song was covered by Singapore-based female singer Ervinna, backing music by The Stylers, on her LP album Top Hits with the local White Cloud Record.

On the tribute album Two Rooms: Celebrating the Songs of Elton John & Bernie Taupin recorded in 1991 by a symposium of eminent performers as the soundtrack of the documentary film Two Rooms, the song "Crocodile Rock" is covered by The Beach Boys. Their interpretation emphasises the vocal reminiscence of the Rock and Roll era and tones down the honky tonk and cha-cha-cha ambiance of the original.

Alvin and the Chipmunks covered the song for the 1990 TV special Rockin' Through the Decades and its corresponding soundtrack.

In 1991 CKBE-FM David Tyler.

The song was featured in the 1994, critically acclaimed and box office hit Four Weddings and a Funeral where Elton also provided the soundtrack.

In 2002, the Baha Men covered the song for the 2002 movie The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course, with slight lyric changes.

The song was prominently featured in The Vicar of Dibley episode "Community Spirit".

The Cast of VeggieTales performed this song in the album "Bob and Larry Sing the 70's."

The song was featured in Bob the Builder: The Album.

Crocodile Rock is featured as one of the songs in the video game Lego Rock Band.

Nelly Furtado and John himself covered the song in 2010 redoing a few of the lyrics, i.e., "I remember when rock was young, Gnomeo and Juliet had so much fun.", instead of "Me and Susie had so much fun". It was recorded for the soundtrack of the 2011 film Gnomeo and Juliet.

The lyrics:

I remember when rock was young, me and Suzie had so much fun

Holding hands and skimming stones

Had an old gold Chevy and a place of my own

But the biggest kick I ever got was doing a thing called the Crocodile Rock

While the other kids were Rocking ‘Round The Clock, we were hopping and bopping to the Crocodile Rock

Well, Crocodile Rocking is something shocking when your feet just can't keep still

I never knew me a better time and I guess I never will

Oh lawdy mama, those Friday nights when Suzie wore her dresses tight and the Crocodile Rocking was out of sight

But the years went by and the rock just died

Suzie went and left us for some foreign guy

Long nights crying by the record machine

Dreaming of the Chevy and my old blue jeans

But they'll never kill the thrills we've got burning up to the Crocodile Rock

Learning fast as the weeks went past

We really thought the Crocodile Rock would last

Well, Crocodile Rocking is something shocking when your feet just can't keep still

I never knew me a better time and I guess I never will

Oh lawdy mama, those Friday nights when Suzie wore her dresses tight and the Crocodile Rocking was out of sight

I remember when rock was young, me and Suzie had so much fun

Holding hands and skimming stones

Had an old gold Chevy and a place of my own

But the biggest kick I ever got was doing a thing called the Crocodile Rock

While the other kids were Rocking ‘Round The Clock, we were hopping and bopping to the Crocodile Rock

Well, Crocodile Rocking is something shocking when your feet just can't keep still

I never knew me a better time and I guess I never will

Oh lawdy mama, those Friday nights when Suzie wore her dresses tight and the Crocodile Rocking was out of sight

Video hit Lynyrd Skynyrd

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama (live)

Sweet Home Alabama is a song by Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd that first appeared in 1974 on their second album, Second Helping.

It reached #8 on the US charts in 1974, and was the band's second hit single.

Part of the reference comes from the 1971–1972 demo reels that Lynyrd Skynyrd had recorded in Muscle Shoals with Johnson as a producer/recording engineer. Johnson helped refine many of the songs first heard publicly on the Pronounced album, and it was Van Zant's "tip of the hat" to Johnson for helping out the band in the early years and essentially giving the band its first break.

Lynyrd Skynyrd remains connected to Muscle Shoals, having since recorded a number of works in the city and making it a regular stop on their concert tours.

In popular culture

"Sweet Home Alabama" appears on the soundtrack of the 1994 film Forrest Gump, as the title character dances with his beloved friend Jenny in the living room of his Alabama home during a rainstorm. In the 1997 film Con Air, the song is played as the list of main characters is seen in the end credits. During the film, it is also played on the plane as some of the convicts dance, prompting Garland Greene (Steve Buscemi) to comment on the irony of "a bunch of idiots dancing on a plane, to a song made famous by a band that died in a plane crash." The song (in edited form) is also heard at the beginning of the 2010 film Despicable Me. The song also appears in the 1995 film Crimson Tide. As the ballistic missile submarine USS Alabama sets sail, the crew in the enlisted mens mess are playing the song on a portable stereo.

It is also used in the opening to the film Joe Dirt and features David Spade lip syncing the opening "turn it up" lyric.

It is used in the 2002 Reese Witherspoon / Patrick Dempsey movie of the same name.

The song is often heard at U.S. Cellular Field whenever Chicago White Sox ace Jake Peavy is pitching. Peavy was born in Mobile, Alabama.

As of 2009, the State of Alabama has begun using the phrase "Sweet Home Alabama" as an official slogan on license plates for motor vehicles, with Governor Bob Riley noting that Lynyrd Skynyrd's anthem is the third most-played song referring to a specific destination. (This is also the second Alabama license plate in a row to make reference to a popular song, with the state's previous plate having featured "Stars Fell on Alabama".)

World Wrestling Federation (WWF) used Sweet Home Alabama as the theme song for their pay-per-view Armaggeddon in 2000.

The song has been used in multiple advertising campaigns. In September 2007, Alabama Governor Bob Riley announced the phrase "Sweet Home Alabama" would be used to promote Alabama state tourism in a multi million dollar ad campaign. No indication has been given if the song itself will be included in the campaign.

The song was used as the theme song to the 2001 EA Sports video game NASCAR Thunder 2002.

The song is played at every home football game for the University of Alabama with the phrase "Roll Tide Roll" following the title lyrics.

It was also played after the Crimson Tide's BCS National Championship victories in 2010, 2012, and 2013.

The lyrics:

Big wheels keep on turning

Carry me home to see my kin

Singing songs about the Southland

I miss Alabamy once again

And I think it's a sin, yes

Well I heard mister Young sing about her

Well, I heard ole Neil put her down

Well, I hope Neil Young will remember

A Southern man don't need him around anyhow

Sweet home Alabama

Where the skies are so blue

Sweet Home Alabama

Lord, I'm coming home to you

In Birmingham they love the governor

Now we all did what we could do

Now Watergate does not bother me

Does your conscience bother you?

Tell the truth

Sweet home Alabama

Where the skies are so blue

Sweet Home Alabama

Lord, I'm coming home to you

Here I come Alabama

Now Muscle Shoals has got the Swampers

And they've been known to pick a song or two

Lord they get me off so much

They pick me up when I'm feeling blue

Now how about you?

Sweet home Alabama

Where the skies are so blue

Sweet Home Alabama

Lord, I'm coming home to you

Sweet home Alabama

Oh sweet home baby

Where the skies are so blue

And the governor's true

Sweet Home Alabama

Lordy

Lord, I'm coming home to you

Yea, yea

Video hit Kris Kristofferson

Kris Kristofferson - Why Me Lord (live)

Why Me is an American country and gospel song written and recorded by Kris Kristofferson.

Kristofferson had become the toast of Nashville in the early 1970s, with the massive success of compositions including "For the Good Times," "Me and Bobby McGee," "Sunday Morning Coming Down," "Help Me Make It Through the Night" and many other songs. He had a hit of his own as well, with "Loving Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again)."

"Why Me" was recorded by Kristofferson in 1972, and features backing vocals by soon-to-be wife Rita Coolidge and up-and-coming singer-songwriter Larry Gatlin. It was included on the album, Jesus Was a Capricorn and, in 1973, the song became the biggest hit of his career.

According to country music historian Bill Malone, Kristofferson wrote the song during an emotionally low period of his life after having attended a religious service conducted by the Rev. Jimmie Rogers Snow. Wrote Malone, "'Why Me, Lord'" - as the song is sometimes known - "may seem greatly out of character for Kristofferson, but it can be interpreted as his own personal religious rephrasing of 'Sunday Morning Coming Down.' In this case, he is 'coming down' not from drugs, but from the whole hedonistic euphoria of the (1960s)." Malone also described Kristofferson's gruff vocal styling as "perfect" for the song, since "he sounds like a man who has lived a lot but is now humbling himself before God."

Kristofferson met June Carter Cash, and Johnny Cash in a hotel room in 1972 wanting to play them two songs he had written. Kristofferson had just attended a rough screening of a movie Johnny and June were heavily involed in entitled, "Gospel Road." According to Johnny Cash's book, "The Man in Black" Larry Gatlin sang a song called, "Help Me" at the Evangel Temple which inspired Kristofferson to write the song. Kristofferson also played Cash the song, "Burden of Freedom" which was used in, "Gospel Road.

"Why Me" was Kristofferson's lone major country hit as a solo recording artist, reaching No. 1 of Billboard magazine's Hot Country Singles chart in July 1973. The song, despite peaking only at No. 16 of the Billboard Hot 100, had, to that time, one of the longer runs (19 weeks) in the top 40 and the most chart reversals in one run on the Hot 100. As a result, ironically, the song managed to be ranked as the sixth most popular Hot 100 single of 1973.

"Why Me" was certified gold for sales of 1 million units by the Recording Industry Association of America.

Other notable performances

Elvis Presley incorporated the song, titled as "Why Me Lord", into his live shows beginning in January 1974 up until his last concert tour. It was first released on the live album, Elvis Recorded Live On Stage In Memphis in June 1974. The recording is from his March 20, 1974 concert in Memphis, Tennessee. He often introduced the song for J.D. Sumner to sing "one of his favorite songs." Sumner would sing the verses and Elvis would join on the chorus along with the back-up singers. He also recorded the other side of the single, "Help Me", written by Larry Gatlin in December 1973 and which remained part of his live shows as well.

Johnny Cash also recorded a version of the song titled "Why Me Lord" on his 1994 album American Recordings.

Merle Haggard recorded a version, released on the 1981 album What a Friend We Have in Jesus.

Chicago punk band The Smoking Popes recorded a version of this song for their 2001 covers album The Party's Over.

David Crowder Band recorded a version for their final album, Give Us Rest, which was released in 2012.

The lyrics:

verse 1:

why me lord?

what have i ever done,

to deserve even one,

of the pleasure i've known,

tell me lord,

what did i ever do,

that was worth lovin' you,

for the kindness you've shown,

chorus:

lord help me Jesus,

i've wasted it so help me Jesus,

i know what i am,

but now that i know,

that i needed you so help me Jesus,

my souls in your hand,

verse 2:

try me lord,

if you think there's a way,

i can try to repay,

all i've takin' from you,

maybe lord,

i can show someone else,

what i've been through myself,

on my way back to you,

chorus (x2)

Jesus, my soul's in your hands

Video hit Norah Jones

Norah Jones - Happy Pills

Happy Pills is a song by the American singer-songwriter Norah Jones. It is the lead single from her fifth studio album Little Broken Hearts and was released digitally on March 6, 2012. The song was written by Jones and co-written and produced by Brian Burton. It tells the story of Jones emancipating herself from a relationship and finding that she is better off alone. Musically, is an "upbeat", "jazzy" song. It received mostly positive reviews, with many critics complimenting the chemistry between Jones and Burton and also its "catchy and breezy" style.

On February 28, 2012 she premiered "Happy Pills" via her Facebook page on the SoundCloud. After she announcing that she would be performing in the 2012 SXSW, she added that she would perform the single for the first time at that event.

"Happy Pills" was written by Jones and co-written and produced by Brian Burton. The song surprised Jones and Burton from the moment they wrote it. "We both were like 'Oh my God, this is awesome' at first and then went away and listened over the weekend, explained Jones. "We didn't know if it fit on the record. But I couldn't stop singing it, and neither could Brian. Eventually we decided it was too much fun, it had to be there."

The song revolves around a break up as Jones admits to be feeling good about not having to deal with her lover anymore. "Would you please just let me go now?" pleads Jones, addressing some fool who crushed her feelings.

Becky Bain of Idolator wrote that the song is "a sunny, languid tune". The song was also described as "upbeat" and "jazzy".

The lyrics:

Trying to pick up the pace,

Trying to make it so I never see your face again.

Time to throw this away want to make sure that you never waste my time

Again.

How does it feel?

Oh how does it feel to be you right now dear?

You brought this upon, so pick up your piece and go away from here.

Please just let me go now.

Please just let me go.

Would you please just let me go now?

Please just let me go.

I'm going to get you.

I'm going to get you.

I'm going to get you out of my head.

Get out.

I'm going to get you.

I'm going to get you.

I'm going to get you out of my head.

Get out.

Never said we'd be friends,

Trying to keep myself away from you,

'Cause you're bad, bad news.

With you gone, I'm alive,

Makes me feel like I took happy pills,

And time stood still.

How does it feel?

Oh how does it feel to be the one shut out?

You broke all the rules.

I won't be a fool for you no more my dear.

Please just let me go now.

Please just let me go.

Would you please just let me go now?

Please just let me go.

I'm going to get you.

I'm going to get you.

I'm going to get you out of my head.

Get out.

I'm going to get you.

I'm going to get you.

I'm going to get you out of my head.

Get out.

Video hit Chris Isaak

Chris Isaak - Somebody's Crying (live, Chicago)

Somebody's Crying is a song by musician Chris Isaak from his fifth album, Forever Blue. The song was released as the album's first single in May 1995. It also appears on his 2006 Best of Chris Isaak compilation.

A live version is included on Isaak's 2008 Live in Australia album.

Isaak wrote the song shortly after a breakup with his girlfriend. Isaak had attended a friend's party, but soon realized that he did not want to be there.
He went inside a walk-in closet, closed the door, grabbed a guitar that was leaning against the back wall, and wrote "Somebody's Crying."

Lyrically, the song describes one's yearning for a former lover, and the fear of communicating again with that person.

In a 1995 interview, Isaak compared the lyrics to a way children often speak:

“Most of us are as terrified of love as little kids are terrified of the world. Little kids come up to you and say, "I know someone who loves you" or "I know someone who likes you." They say it like, I'm not going to really come out and say it. And for adults, it's probably the same way. They never really get beyond that fear”.

The song was played during parts of two episodes of the Fox television series Party of Five in 1995.

It was also featured in a 1995 episode of MTV's Beavis and Butt-head.

An acoustic performance of the song by Isaak is included in the 2000 DVD compilation, MTV Unplugged: Ballads.

The lyrics:

I know somebody and they cry for you.

They lie awake at night and dream of you.

I bet you never even know they do but somebody's crying.

I know somebody and they called your name.

A million times and still you never came.

They go on loving you just the same I know that somebody's trying.

So please return the love you took from me.

Or please let me know if it can't be me I know when

Somebody's lying, I know when somebody's lying.

I know that somebody's lying, I know that somebody's lying.

Give me a sign and let me know we're through.

If you don't love me like I love you.

But if you cry at night the way I do I'll know that somebody's lying.

So please, return the love you took from me.

Or please, let me know if it can't be me.

I know when somebody's lying, I know when somebody's lying.

Oh I, oh I

Video hit Joan Jett

Joan Jett - I Love Rock 'n' Roll

I Love Rock 'n' Roll is a rock song written in 1975 by Alan Merrill and Jake Hooker of Arrows, who recorded the first released version. The song was later made famous by the hit version by Joan Jett & The Blackhearts in 1981.

Joan Jett saw Arrows perform "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" on their weekly television series Arrows when she was touring England with The Runaways in 1976. She first recorded the song in 1979 with two of the Sex Pistols: Steve Jones and Paul Cook. This first version was not released until 1993 in Flashback. In 1981, Jett re-recorded the song, this time with her band, The Blackhearts.

This recording became a U.S. Billboard Hot 100 number-one single for seven weeks, effectively launching Jett's solo career. The single was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, representing one million units sold. All versions count once toward certification. This success propelled Jett's I Love Rock 'n Roll album to number two on the Billboard 200.

Joan Jett's version was ranked #89 in the list 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of Rolling Stone.

"I Love Rock 'n' Roll"'s gritty, black-and-white music video received heavy play from the just-launched MTV network. In it, Jett and The Blackhearts travel to a small, dingy bar and proceed to excite the drunken crowd by performing the song and yelling out its famous chorus.

A snippet of Jett's 1981 hit "Bad Reputation" is featured at the beginning of the video. Jett followed up "I Love Rock 'n Roll" with another cover—her version of Tommy James and the Shondells' "Crimson and Clover," which was a top-ten U.S. hit. The video was originally in color, but it was converted to black and white because Jett was ultimately displeased with the look of her red leather jumpsuit in color.

In 1993 Joan Jett & The Blackhearts made another music video for the song as part of the Wayne's World 2 soundtrack. In the video appear several scenes from the movie with Mike Myers and Dana Carvey mixed with footage of Joan and her band in concert. It was again released as a single by Warner/Reprise with "Activity Grrrl" as the B-side.

The lyrics:

I saw him dancin' there by the record machine

I knew he must a been about seventeen

The beat was goin' strong

Playin' my favorite song

An' I could tell it wouldn't be long

Till he was with me, yeah me

And I could tell it wouldn't be long

Till he was with me, yeah me, singin'

I love rock n' roll

So put another dime in the jukebox, baby

I love rock n' roll

So come and take your time and dance with me

Ow!

He smiled so I got up and asked for his name

That don't matter, he said,

'Cause it's all the same

Said can I take you home where we can be alone

An' next we were movin' on

He was with me, yeah me

Next we were movin' on

He was with me, yeah me, singin'

I love rock n' roll

So put another dime in the jukebox, baby

I love rock n' roll

So come an' take your time an' dance with me

Ow!

Said can I take you home where we can be alone

Next we were movin' on

He was with me, yeah me,

An we'll be movin' on

An' singin' that same old song

Yeah with me, singin'

I love rock n' roll

So put another dime in the jukebox, baby

I love rock n' roll

So come an' take your time an' dance with me

I love rock n' roll

So put another dime in the jukebox, baby

I love rock n' roll

So come an' take your time an' dance with

I love rock n' roll

So put another dime in the jukebox, baby

I love rock n' roll

So come an' take your time an' dance with

I love rock n' roll

So put another dime in the jukebox, baby

I love rock n' roll

So come an' take your time an' dance with

I love rock n' roll

So put another dime in the jukebox, baby

I love rock n' roll

So come an' take your time an' dance with me

Video hit Whitney Houston

Whitney Houston - I wanna dance with somebody (who loves me)

I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me) is the first single from Whitney Houston's second studio album Whitney. It was produced by Narada Michael Walden, and written by George Merrill and Shannon Rubicam of the band Boy Meets Girl, who had previously written the number-one Whitney Houston hit "How Will I Know". The original arrangement was more of a country tune, but was transformed by Walden to make it a dance song.

The song received mixed reviews from critics, who compared the musical arrangement to her own "How Will I Know" and Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Want to Have Fun".

The song won the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the 30th Grammy Awards, and in later years received better reviews, being considered a 1980s gem. The single was a commercial success, topping the charts in 13 countries including Australia, Germany and the UK. In the US, it became her fourth consecutive number one single and sold over one million copies, making it her biggest hit in that country at the time. It was eventually surpassed by her version of "I Will Always Love You".

"I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" won the award for "Favorite Pop/Rock Single" at the 15th American Music Awards on January 25, 1988.

Additionally, Houston won the Grammy award for "Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female" with the song at its 30th ceremony on March 2, 1988, where she received a total of three nominations.

The music video for the song was nominated for "Best Music Video" at the 2nd Soul Train Music Awards on March 30, 1988.

Houston won the award for "Best Music Video" for the video at the 1st Garden State Music Awards.

Internationally, the song was a massive hit, becoming her most successful single at the time. It reached number one in fourteen countries.

The video for "I Wanna Dance with Somebody" (directed by Brian Grant) is one of Houston's best recognized music videos. In the intro of this video, Houston just finishes a performance onstage. She walks backstage, and the scene is intercut with more vivid, colorful images of her. The song then explodes into its beginning, with myriad locations and various outfits by Houston, as dancers trying to impress her as she dances. Towards the end of the song she manhandles a man, who has a mixture of a look of shock and surprise asking him "Don't you wanna dance say you wanna dance". The music video was in heavy rotation on music channels MTV, VH1, and BET during the song's run.

The lyrics:

Clock strikes upon the hour,

And the sun begins to fade.

Still enough time to figure out,

How to chase my blues away.

I've done alright up till now.

It's the light of day that shows me how.

And when the night falls...

The loneliness calls.

Oh I wanna dance with somebody,

I wanna feel the heat with somebody.

Yeah I wanna dance with somebody,

With somebody who loves me.

Oh I wanna dance with somebody,

I wanna feel the heat with somebody.

Yeah I wanna dance with somebody,

With somebody who loves me.

I've been in love,

And lost my senses,

Spinning through the town.

Sooner or later the fever ends,

And I wind up feeling down.

I need a man who'll take a chance,

On a love that burns hot enough to last.

So when the night falls,

My lonely heart calls.

Oh I wanna dance with somebody,

I wanna feel the heat with somebody.

Yeah I wanna dance with somebody,

With somebody who loves me.

Oh I wanna dance with somebody,

I wanna feel the heat.

Yeah I wanna dance with somebody,

With somebody who loves me.

(Somebody who somebody who)somebody who loves me,

(Somebody who somebody who)to hold me in his arms.

I need a man who'll take a chance,

On a love that burns hot enough to last.

So when the night falls,

My lonely heart calls.

Oh I wanna dance with somebody,

I wanna feel the heat with somebody.

Yeah I wanna dance with somebody,

With somebody who loves me.

Oh I wanna dance with somebody,

I wanna feel the heat with somebody.

Yeah I wanna dance with somebody,

With somebody who loves me.

Yeah,

Don’t you wanna dance with me baby?

Don’t you wanna dance with me boy?

Don’t you wanna dance with me baby?

With somebody who loves me,

Don't you wanna dance

Say you wanna dance

Don't you wanna dance... x3

Uh-huh

With somebody who loves me