Video hit Iyeoka Okoawo

Iyeoka Okoawo - Simply Falling

Iyeoka Okoawo is a Nigerian-American poet, recording artist, singer, activist, educator and TEDGlobal Fellow. Her music includes elements from soul, R&B, rock, hip hop, and jazz.

A first-generation Nigerian American, Iyeoka Okoawo was a practicing pharmacist before launching her musical career.

She began her musical career by founding the group The Rock by Funk Tribe, a collective of musicians that enabled her to interweave her poetry with jazz, blues, funk, and gospel. In 2004, she released her first solo full-length album of poem-songs, called Black and Blues, through Phanai Records. Then she began to tour and appeared on other artists’ albums, including The Press Project’s Get Right album and Memoirs of the Tempo by Tempo Valley.

In 2008, Iyeoka released her second album of poetry and music fusion, Hum The Bass Line, again on Phanai Records.

That same year, Iyeoka made a cover of U2′s hit song “Desire” for a compilation of U2 covers called In The Name Of Love: Africa Celebrates U2. The album featured Grammy Award-winning/nominated African artists, including Angelique Kidjo, Les Nubians, Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars, Vieux Farka Touré, Vusi Mahlasela and the Soweto Gospel Choir, with proceeds benefiting the Global Fund.

In 2009, Iyeoka decided to transform her sound and songwriting approach and began working with producer David Franz (in collaboration with her original producer, Francis Phan) to create more traditional song forms. Iyeoka released two EPs that year: This Time Around and Run Into the Rain. The new music infused more pop, R&B, dance, and hip hop into the mix, creating an “electronic soul” sound.

In November 2010, Iyeoka released her new album, Say Yes, containing nine songs and two poems, through the Underground Sun artist development company. It is the first “Evolving Album(tm)” where purchasers will receive added content for free as the album evolves. Before the album’s release, the first song, “The Yellow Brick Road Song”, was featured in an episode of the new hit HBO series How To Make It In America.

"The Yellow Brick Road Song" is being used as the theme song for the series "Fairly Legal" that premiered January 20, 2011, on USA Network.

In January 2011, Iyeoka was nominated in The 10th Annual Independent Music Awards for her song "This Time Around" in the R&B Song category.

Iyeoka is currently touring in support of the new album and her poetry. In the past, she has toured in support of artists such as Femi Kuti, Zap Mama and Soulive, as well as played musical festivals, including Bonnaroo. The buzz surrounding her poetry has also garnered her national attention through performances at the TBS Trumpet Awards, the Sullivan Honors Awards at the Kennedy Center and Russell Simmons’ Def Poetry Jam on HBO.

The lyrics:

There goes my heart again

All of this time I thought we were pretending

Nothing looks the same when your eyes are open

Now you're playing these games to keep my heartbeat spinning

You show me love, you show me love

You show me everything my heart is capable of

You reshape me like butterfly origami

You have broken into my heart

This time I feel the blues have departed

Nothing can keep me away from this feeling

I know I am simply falling for you

I'm taking time to envision where your heart is

And justify why you're gone for the moment

I tumble sometimes, looking for sunshine

And you know this is right when you look into my eyes

You show me love, you show me love

You show me everything my heart is capable of

And now I can't break away from this fire that we started

You have broken into my heart

This time I feel the blues have departed

Nothing can keep me away from this feeling

I know I am simply falling for you

There my heart goes again

In your arms I'm falling deeper

And there's nothing to break me away from this

Video hit Eddie Cantor

Eddie Cantor- Makin' Whoopee

"Makin' Whoopee!" is a jazz/blues song, first popularized by Eddie Cantor in the 1928 musical Whoopee!. Gus Kahn wrote the lyrics and Walter Donaldson composed the music for the song as well as for the entire musical.

The title is a euphemism for sexual intimacy, and the song itself has been called a "dire warning", largely to men, about the "trap" of marriage.

"Makin' Whoopee" begins with the celebration of a wedding, honeymoon and marital bliss, but moves on to babies and responsibilities, and ultimately on to affairs and possible divorce, ending with a judge's advice.

Other versions

• Bing Crosby recorded the song already in 1928 with the Paul Whiteman Orchestra.
• The King Cole Trio recorded the song August 7, 1947 in Los Angeles (2139-3 (Capitol 10101)).
• Doris Day recorded the song in a duet with Danny Thomas in November 1951. It was released on the 10" soundtrack-LP I'll See You in My Dreams by Columbia Records as catalog number CL-6198 on December 14, 1952. Conductor: Paul Weston. She recorded a new version in November 1958. It was released on the LP Cuttin' Capers by Columbia Records as catalog number CS-8078 (stereo) and CL-1232 (mono) on March 9, 1959. Conductor: Frank De Vol.
• Frank Sinatra. Released on the LP Songs For Swingin' Lovers by Capitol Records as catalog number W-653 in 1956.
• Dinah Washington. Released on the LP The Swingin' Miss "D" by EmArcy Records as catalog number MG 36104 in 1956. Arranger and conductor: Quincy Jones. Producer: Bob Shad.
• Ella Fitzgerald. Recorded at the Radio Recorders, Hollywood, on November 24, 1958. It was released on the LP Ella Fitzgerald Sings Sweet Songs for Swingers by Verve Records as catalogue number VS-6072 (stereo) and V-4032 (mono) in 1959. Arranger and conductor was Frank De Vol.
• In the early 1960s, Pepsi-Cola used the tune of Makin' Whoopee for their television advertising jingle, "For Those Who Think Young", as performed by Joanie Sommers.
• Germany's best selling violinist Helmut Zacharias played a version.
• Don Lusher, Orchestra directed by Pete Moore. Released on the LP Makin' Whoopee by CBS Records as catalog number 63021 in 1967.
• The Elton John track "Big Dipper" features an adapted version of "Makin' Whoopee" in its final verse.
• Allan Sherman released a parody version called "Makin' Coffee."
• Hawkeye Pierce. It was played on a gramophone at the Swamp and partially sung by Hawkeye Pierce (Alan Alda) at the end of an episode of M*A*S*H titled "Dear Dad... Three".
• Dr. John and Rickie Lee Jones performed "Makin' Whoopee" on Dr. John's album In a Sentimental Mood. It was released by Warner Bros. Records as catalog number 9 25889-2 (CD) and 9 25889-1, 1-25889 (LP) in 1989.
• Paul Rodriguez performs his rendition for the end credits of the 1986 comedy film The Whoopee Boys.
• Michelle Pfeiffer sang "Makin' Whoopee", sprawled over a piano in a red evening dress, in the 1989 film The Fabulous Baker Boys.[11] An homage to this scene featured in Season 3, Episode 10 of Eureka ("Your Face or Mine?"), where the song was performed by Erica Cerra.[12] It was spoofed in the film Hot Shots! and in an episode of the TV series Ellen.[13] A parody of this scene was made by Marina Massironi, an Italian actress, during the show Tel Chi El Telùn.
• During the late 1990s, Cadillac used the song in ad campaigns for the DeVille sedan. Many different versions of the song were recorded, most notably by Ray Charles, Anita Baker and Dave Koz (the last two in a duet).
• Woody Allen's 1996 musical film Everyone Says I Love You features Tirome Jerome's rendition of the song.
• In 2000 EMI Records released "Swing Classics" which included the Paul Whiteman version of Makin' Whoopee with the seldom heard verse beginning: "Every time I hear that March from Lohengrin".... performed by
• Graham Dalby and The Grahamophones now called The London Swing Orchestra.
• John Paul Larkin. "Listen to the Scatman" album released in 2001 by his wife Judy Larkin.
• "Makin' Whoopee!" was covered by Rod Stewart in a duet with Elton John on Stewart's CD The Great American Songbook, Volume 4. It was released by J Records as catalog number 69286 on October 18, 2005. Harry Nilsson had previously covered it.
• Elton John performed the song solo, with Dave Hartley on piano, for a soundtrack of a movie Shoreditch, in 2003.
• Vocalist Stacey Kent. Released on the CD The Boy Next Door by Candid Records as catalog number CCD 79797 in 2003.
• In 2008 for the music series Spectacle, Elton John revisits "Whoopee" as part of a trio with Elvis Costello and Diana Krall. This version stays true to the campy original. Elton executive-produced the series and Krall married Costello on December 5, 2003 at Elton John's estate outside London.
• The SuperJazz Big Band of Birmingham, Alabama recorded the song on the CD, UAB SuperJazz, Featuring Ellis Marsalis.
• Cookie Monster did a parody of this song called "Eatin' Cookie" on Sesame Street.
• Dot from Animaniacs did a parody of this song called "Writin' Hooey" in the episode, Roll Over, Beethoven.
• Saxophonst Jimmy Sommers. Released on the CD Time Stands Still by NuGroove Records as catalog number 20312 in 2009.
• At her March 7, 2010 performance at the Sydney Opera House, Amanda Palmer covered the song on the ukulele, and a recording of her performance was included on her second album, Amanda Palmer Goes Down Under.
• A version of the song is performed by Diana Krall, Elvis Costello and Elton John, at the end of Spectacle: Elvis Costello with....
• Norah Jones recorded a version with Wynton Marsalis and Willie Nelson for the 2011 concert and album Here We Go Again: Celebrating the Genius of Ray Charles
• Jazz-blues guitarist Lonnie Johnson recorded several songs revolving around the "making whoopee with the devil" theme, beginning with "She's Making Whoopee in Hell Tonight" (1930)
• Rachael MacFarlane recorded a version for her 2012 debut album, Hayley Sings. This version was featured on the American Dad Season 8 premiere where her character Hayley Smith sang the song. In the episode, Hayley sings it in Roger's night club to bring in more customers.
• Jazz singer / guitarist, Bob McCarroll recorded Makin' Whoopee on his 2010 CD, That Old Feeling which also includes a number of older popular music / jazz standards.
• Namibian singer Nianell and South African singer Dozi recorded a version on their duets album "It Takes Two" in 2009.

The lyrics:

Every time I hear that dear old wedding march

I feel rather glad I have a broken arch.

I have heard a lot of people talk

And I know that marriage is a long long walk.

To most people weddings mean romance

But I prefer a picnic or a dance.

Another bride,

Another groom,

Another sunny honeymoon,

Another season,

Another reason

For making whoopee.

The chorus sings, "Here comes the bride."

Another victim is by her side.

He's lost his reason cause it's the season

For making whoopee.

Down through the countless ages

You'll find it everywhere.

Somebody makes good wages.

Somebody wants her share.

She calls him 'Toodles' and rolls her eyes.

She makes him strudles and bakes him pies.

What is it all for?

It's so he'll fall for making whoopee.

Another year or maybe less

What's this I hear?

Well, can't you guess?

She feels neglected so he's suspected

Of making whoopee.

She sits alone most every night.

He doesn't phone or even write.

He says he's busy.

But she says, "Is he?"

He's making whoopee.

He doesn't make much money:

Five thousand dollars per.

Some judge who thinks he's funny

Says, "You'll pay six to her."

He says, "Now judge, suppose I fail?"

The judge says, "Budge right into jail."

You better keep her.

You'll find it's cheaper

Than making whoopee.  

Video hit Amos Lee

Amos Lee - Arms Of A Woman

Amos Lee is the self-titled debut album by American singer-songwriter Amos Lee, released in the U.S. by Blue Note Records on March 1, 2005.

The album was produced by Lee Alexander, the bassist in Norah Jones' band.

The songs on the album incorporate themes of folk music, soul music, and jazz.

In popular culture

Lee's song, "Colors" was featured on the soundtrack of the film Just Like Heaven and on episodes of House, Six Feet Under, Grey's Anatomy, Brothers & Sisters, and Parenthood.

His song, "Keep it Loose, Keep it Tight" was featured on Conviction and his composition "Seen It All Before" was featured on an episode of ER.

The song "Arms of a Woman" appeared in the film "The Last Kiss (2006 film)".

The lyrics:

I am at ease in the arms of a woman.

Although now,

most of my days i spend alone.

A thousand miles,

from the place i was born.

But when she wakes me,

she takes me back home.

Now, most days,

i spend like a child.

Who's afraid of ghosts in my mind.

I know, there aint nothing out there.

I'm still afraid to turn on the lights.

I am at ease in the arms of a woman.

Although now,

most of my days a i spend alone.

A thousand miles,

the place i was born.

When she wakes me,

she takes me back home.

A thousand miles,

the place i was born.

When she wakes me,

she takes me back home.

I am at ease in the arms of a woman.

Although now,

most of my days i spend alone.

A thousand miles,

from the place i was born.

When she wakes me,

she takes me..

Ya, when she wakes me,

she takes me back home.

When she wakes me,

she takes me back home.

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 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 Norah Jones

Norah Jones - Come Away With Me (live)

Come Away with Me is the debut album of pianist and singer Norah Jones, released by Blue Note Records on February 26, 2002.

Recording sessions for the album took place at New York City's Sorcerer Sound Studio and Shokan's Allaire Studios in 2001.

The album's critical and commercial success was a breakthrough for Jones in 2002, as it reached the top of the Billboard 200 chart and several jazz charts. The album also topped many critics' "albums of the year" lists and gathered major music awards in the process, including eight Grammy Awards.

Following initial sales, Come Away with Me was certified diamond by the RIAA on February 15, 2005 having shipped over 10 million copies in its first three years of release and has sold more than 26 million copies worldwide.

Come Away with Me is a mellow, acoustic pop album with soul and country overtones. It also incorporates blues, jazz, and folk styles.

Bobby Dodd of All About Jazz writes that, although the album features jazz standards, jazz purists and academics "may deny [Jones] jazz credibility for her folk infusion".

Jones' guitarist Jesse Harris and bassist Lee Alexander wrote most of the album's songs, which feature simple melodies and progressions.

The lyrics:

Come away with me in the night

Come away with me

And I will write you a song

Come away with me on a bus

Come away where they can't tempt us

With their lies

I want to walk with you

On a cloudy day

In fields where the yellow grass grows knee-high

So won't you try to come

Come away with me and we'll kiss

On a mountaintop

Come away with me

And I'll never stop loving you

And I want to wake up with the rain

Falling on a tin roof

While I'm safe there in your arms

So all I ask is for you

To come away with me in the night

Come away with me

Video hit Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris

Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris - Our Shangri-La (live)

Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris have had long histories of collaborating with and supporting other artists. In addition to her 23 solo albums and three successful collaborative albums with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt, Harris has recorded backing and duet vocals with many of the great recording artists of her generation, including The Band, Garth Brooks, Johnny Cash, John Denver, Bob Dylan, George Jones, Lyle Lovett, Bill Monroe, Roy Orbison, Gram Parsons, Tammy Wynette, and Neil Young.

Knopfler has also been involved in a number of collaborative projects, recording duets with Chet Atkins, George Jones, Van Morrison, and James Taylor, producing albums by Willy DeVille, Bob Dylan, Bap Kennedy, and Randy Newman, and contributing guitar tracks to numerous recordings by other artists, including Clint Black, The Chieftains, Eric Clapton, Phil Everly, Waylon Jennings, B.B. King, Kris Kristofferson, Sonny Landreth, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Cliff Richard, Sting, Tina Turner, Steely Dan, and Jimmy Webb.

Both shared a love of country music and an admiration for one of country music's guitar masters, Chet Atkins. In 1990, Atkins and Knopfler recorded a collaborative album Neck and Neck, but their friendship went back even further. Knopfler and Harris first met while appearing on a Chet Atkins television special in 1987. They stayed in touch, and about ten years later in Nashville, Mark played a few of his songs for Harris, and the idea to record together emerged.

Knopfler and Harris supported the release of All the Roadrunning with the All the Roadrunning Tour of Europe and North America, which started on 26 May 2006 in Brussels, Belgium, and included 23 concerts in 23 cities, ending in Berkeley, California, on 30 June 2006.

The tour lineup included Mark Knopfler (guitar, vocals), Emmylou Harris (guitar, vocals), Guy Fletcher (keyboards), Richard Bennett (guitar), Stuart Duncan (fiddle, mandolin), Matt Rollings (keyboards), Glenn Worf (bass), and Danny Cummings (drums).

The concert on 28 June 2006 at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Los Angeles was recorded and released as a live album and DVD, Real Live Roadrunning, on 14 November 2006 by Mercury Records and Universal Music internationally, and by Warner Bros. Records in the United States.

The lyrics:

Its the end of a perfect day for all the surfer boys and girls

The suns dropping down in the bay and falling off the world

There's a diamond in the sky, our evening stone in our shangri-la

Get that fire burning strong right here and right now

Its here and then it's gone, there's no secret anyhow.

We may never love again to the music of guitars in our shangrila

Tonight your beauty burns into my memory

The wheel of heaven turns above us endlessly

This is all the heaven we got, right here where we are in our shangrila.

Tonight your beauty burns into my memory

The wheel of heaven turns above us endlessly

This is all the heaven we got, right here where we are in our shangrila.

In our shangrila

In our shangrila 

Video hit Dave A. Stewart ft. Candy Dulfer

Dave A. Stewart ft. Candy Dulfer - Lily Was Here (1989)

Lily Was Here is a single, released in November 1989, from the soundtrack of the Dutch movie De Kassière.

David A. Stewart invited Candy Dulfer, who had not previously released any of her material, to play the saxophone on this instrumental.

The single became a major hit and stayed at the #1 position for five weeks in The Netherlands. Because of this success, the single was also released in the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States where it became a hit as well, reaching number six in the UK and even rising to number eleven in the tough U.S. market.

The success of this instrumental encouraged Dulfer to compose music for her own album, which she titled Saxuality.

Video hit Sophie Milman

Sophie Milman - Ochi Chornye (Dark Eyes)

Dark Eyes (Russian: Очи чёрные, Ochi chyornye; English translation: Black Eyes; French translation: Les yeux noirs) is probably the most famous Russian romance.

The lyrics of the song were written by the Ukrainian poet and writer Yevhen Hrebinka in Ukrainian. The first publication of the poem was in Hrebinka's own Russian translation in Literaturnaya gazeta on 17 January 1843.

The words were subsequently set to Florian Hermann's Valse Hommage (in an arrangement by S. Gerdel') and published on 7 March 1884.

Although often characterised as a Russian-Romani song, the words and music were written respectively by a Ukrainian poet Evheniy Grebenka ( Евге́ний Па́влович Гребёнка ) and a composer Florian Hermann. Feodor Chaliapin popularised the song abroad in a version in his own adaptation.

Sophie Milman (born in 1983) is a Russian-born jazz vocalist who lives in Canada.

After emigrating from Russia in the early 1990s, Milman, who is Jewish, spent most of her childhood years in Israel where she listened extensively to jazz. Her self-titled debut album was released on October 12, 2004, in Canada via Linus Entertainment and in 2006 in the United States on Koch.

Milman is a student of commerce at the University of Toronto.

She won 2008 Juno Award for Vocal Jazz Album of the Year for Make Someone Happy.

Her recording of "So Long, You Fool" is used in commercials for Air Wick Winter Collection candles.

Milman is married to lawyer, professor, and musician Casey Chisick, who was also the executive producer on Milman's albums Make Someone Happy (2007) and Take Love Easy (2009), as well as her concert DVD Live in Montreal (2008).

The lyrics:

Ochi chornyye, ochi strastnyye

Ochi zhguchiye i prekrasnyye

Kak lyublyu ya vas, kak boyus' ya vas

Znat' uvidel vas ya v nedobryi chas

Okh nedarom vy glubiny temnei

Vizhu traur v vas po dushe moyei

Vizhu plamya v vas ya pobednoye

Sozhzheno na nyom serdtse bednoye

No ne grusten ya, ne pechalen ya

Uteshitel'na mne sud'ba moya

Vsyo chto luchshevo v zhizni Bog dal nam

V zhertvu otdal ya ognevym glazam!

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

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.