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I heard a song last week by a new British artist named V.V. Brown called Crying Blood. It sounded so much like an old Motown song. I was struck listening to V.V. Brown that of all the songs out there about the many facets of love, the Motown songs capture it best for me. They are energetic, seductive, joyful (the music itself is very upbeat), and sexy. The thing is these descriptors go for the break-up songs and the you done me wrong songs as well as the head over heels in love songs. I like the juxtaposition of the jaunty music with sad lyrics. In a lot of ways love is a game -- we fall in and out, think we are going to die of if and get over it; sometimes all in the same day. I heard an interview with V.V. Brown and that is exactly what she said about her song Crying Blood.
I won't post any lyrics to the old songs, it wouldn't do them justice -- you just have to have the vocals and the music. It truly is the concomitance of the three that make it work.
Here's a list of my most favorite: The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss) -- Betty Everett (I love this song and I don't think it is actually a Motown) My Girl -- Temptations Ain't No Mountain High Enough -- Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell Heat Wave -- Martha & The Vandellas Shop Around - Miracles You Can't Hurry Love -- Supremes Baby Love -- Supremes Nowhere to Run -- Martha & The Vandellas It Takes Two Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell Stop In The Name of Love -- Supremes
And for anyone interested here is a You Tube link to Crying Blood. She is a combo of British Punk & 1960's Motown.
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I heard a song last week by a new British artist named V.V. Brown called Crying Blood. It sound so much like an old Motown song. I struck me listening to V.V. Brown that of all the songs out there about the many facets of love, the Motown songs capture it best for me. They are energetic, seductive, joyful (the music itself is very upbeat), and sexy. The thing is these descriptors go for the break-up songs and the you done me wrong songs as well as the head over heels in love songs. I like the juxtaposition of the jaunty music with sad lyrics. In a lot of ways love is a game -- we fall in and out, think we are going to die of if and get over it; sometimes all in the same day. I heard an interview with V.V. Brown and that is exactly what she said about her song Crying Blood.
I won't post any lyrics to the old songs, it wouldn't do them justice -- you just have to have the vocals and the music. It truly is the concomitance of the three that make it work.
Here's a list of my most favorite: The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss) -- Betty Everett (I love this song and I don't think it is actually a Motown) My Girl -- Temptations Ain't No Mountain High Enough -- Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell Heat Wave -- Martha & The Vandellas Shop Around - Miracles You Can't Hurry Love -- Supremes Baby Love -- Supremes Nowhere to Run -- Martha & The Vandellas It Takes Two Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell Stop In The Name of Love -- Supremes
And for anyone interested here is a You Tube link to Crying Blood. She is a combo of British Punk & 1960's Motown.
I agree completely and your list includes some of my all time favorite Motown songs. I just can't get enough of that stuff, literally, and everytime I hear it, it picks me up immediately, no matter how bad I've been feeling. Love it. Thanks for sharing.
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The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss) -- Title's kinda fun, huh.
Does he love me, I wanna know How can I tell if he loves me so Is it in his eyes, oh no you'll be deceived Is it in his eyes, oh no he'll make believe If you wanna know, if he loves you so It's in his kiss That's where it is, oh yeah Or is it in his face, oh no it's just his charm In his warm embrace, oh no that's just his arm If you wanna know, if he loves you so It's in his kiss That's where it is, oh it's in his kiss That's where it is, oh-oh Kiss him and squeeze him tight And find out what you wanna know If it's love, if it really is It's there in his kiss How 'bout the way he acts, oh no that's not the way And you're not listening to all I say If you wanna know, if he loves you so It's in his kiss, that's where it is Oh yeah it's in his kiss, that's where it is
Oh-oh, kiss him and squeeze him tight And find out what you wanna know If it's love, if it really is It's there in his kiss How 'bout the way he acts, oh no that's not the way And you're not listening to all I say If you wanna know, if he loves you so It's in his kiss That's where it is, oh yeah it's in his kiss That's where it is, oh it's in his kiss
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Hello everyone I thought I'd stop in and add one of mine to your collection.
Song:Guide Me Placed Third in an International Songwriting Contest. It Received a Certificate of Recognition for remarkable achievement in the "Around The World Promotions" Songwriting Contest (1999)
Guide Me
Heavenly Father help me To do what is right. Heavenly Father help me To sleep through this night.
Heavenly Father give me The strength that I need To look those in the eye Who've done harm to me.
Heavenly Father give me The Strength to stand in their sight And Heavenly Father help me To forgive each night.
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I've been getting a few sly digs on another thread on here about being new agey and 1970's airy fairy thinking........so I thought, that's right, I am new agey... and airy fairy..... and : I like it.
So......I thought I'd listen to Mamma Cass......and I'd forgotten how great she was....
Then this one from The Mammas and Pappas got into my head and I thought......
That's poetry that is:
There is a rose in Spanish Harlem A red rose up in Spanish Harlem It is a special one, it's never seen the sun It only comes out when the moon is on the run And all the stars are gleaming It's growing in the street right up through the concrete But soft and sweet and dreamin'
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I've been getting a few sly digs on another thread on here about being new agey and 1970's airy fairy thinking........so I thought, that's right, I am new agey... and airy fairy..... and : I like it.
Penelope: From one airy fairy 70's thinker to another, I give you Neil Young. I think he captures the imaginings and the restlessness of that age so well. And airy fairy or not, its interesting that 70's music seems to resonate with a generation to young to remember the 70's and is making a modest come back.
After the Gold Rush
Well, I dreamed I saw the knights In armor coming, Saying something about a queen. There were peasants singing and Drummers drumming And the archer split the tree. There was a fanfare blowing To the sun That was floating on the breeze. Look at Mother Nature on the run In the nineteen seventies. Look at Mother Nature on the run In the nineteen seventies.
I was lying in a burned out basement With the full moon in my eyes. I was hoping for replacement When the sun burst thru the sky. There was a band playing in my head And I felt like getting high. I was thinking about what a Friend had said I was hoping it was a lie. Thinking about what a Friend had said I was hoping it was a lie.
Well, I dreamed I saw the silver Space ships flying In the yellow haze of the sun, There were children crying And colors flying All around the chosen ones. All in a dream, all in a dream The loading had begun. They were flying Mother Nature's Silver seed to a new home in the sun. Flying Mother Nature's Silver seed to a new home.
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How lovely to hear from you Giselle!
You've quite made my day.
We've just had a General Election and neither party got a majority of votes.
So the Tories have gone into a coalition with the Liberal Democrats and are going to attempt to run the country together. And this song keeps running around in my head:-
"Misalliance".
The fragrant honeysuckle spirals clockwise to the sun, And many other creepers do the same. But some climb anti-clockwise, the bindweed does, for one, Or Convolvulus, to give her proper name.
Rooted on either side a door, one of each species grew, And raced towards the window-ledge above. Each corkscrewed to the lintel in the only way it knew, Where they stopped, touched tendrils, smiled, and fell in love.
Said the right-handed honeysuckle to the left-handed bindweed, "Oh, let us get married, if our parents don't mind, we'd Be loving and inseparable, inextricably entwined, we'd Live happily ever after" said the honeysuckle to the bindweed.
To the honeysuckle's parents it came as a shock. "The bindweeds," they cried, "are inferior stock! They're uncultivated, of breeding bereft, We twine to the right and they twine to the left."
Said the anti-clockwise bindweed to the clockwise honeysuckle, "We'd better start saving, many a mickle macks a muckle, Then run away for a honeymoon and hope that our luck'll Take a turn for the better" said the bindweed to the honeysuckle.
A bee who was passing remarked to them then, "I've said it before and I'll say it again, Consider your offshoots, if offshoots there be, They'll never receive any blessing from me".
"Poor little sucker, how will it learn, When it is climbing, which way to turn? Right, left, what a disgrace, Or it may go straight up and fall flat on its face!"
Said the right-hand-thread honeysuckle to the left-hand-thread bindweed, "It seems they're against us, all fate has combined. Oh my darling, oh my darling, oh my darling Colombine, Thou art lost and gone forever, we shall never intertwine".
Together, they found them, the very next day, They had pulled up their roots and just shrivelled away. Deprived of that freedom for which we must fight, To veer to the left or to veer to the right!
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I heard your PM elect on the radio this morning along with his new political 'friend'. It was quite a light hearted clip which was refreshing in this world of glum and sometimes horrible news (oil slicks, road side bombs). The Brits have a way of laughing about a serious situation, many times with themselves as the target of humour, which I think is an endearing quality. Your song reminded me of how political awareness and social change were so front and center in the 60's and 70's and intertwined into daily life, the media and society's consciousness at large.
Along these light hearted/intertwined lines, here is the first verse from Bob Dylan's "Subterranean" - one comment on these lyrics .. he does not say "thinking about the government" he says "thinkin bout da guvman", and there is a difference in meaning.
Subterranean Homesick Blues
Johnny’s in the basement Mixing up the medicine I’m on the pavement Thinking about the government The man in the trench coat Badge out, laid off Says he’s got a bad cough Wants to get it paid off Look out kid It’s somethin’ you did God knows when But you’re doin’ it again You better duck down the alley way Lookin’ for a new friend The man in the coon-skin cap By the big pen Wants eleven dollar bills You only got ten
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Here's another one of Dylan's gems which seems very apt of late:-
Jokerman
Standing on the waters casting your bread While the eyes of the idol with the iron head are glowing Distant ships sailing into the mist You were born with a snake in both of your fists while a hurricane was blowing Freedom just around the corner for you But with the truth so far off, what good will it do?
Jokerman dance to the nightingale tune Bird fly high by the light of the moon Oh, oh, oh, Jokerman
So swiftly the sun sets in the sky You rise up and say goodbye to no one Fools rush in where angels fear to tread Both of their futures, so full of dread, you don’t show one Shedding off one more layer of skin Keeping one step ahead of the persecutor within
Jokerman dance to the nightingale tune Bird fly high by the light of the moon Oh, oh, oh, Jokerman
You’re a man of the mountains, you can walk on the clouds Manipulator of crowds, you’re a dream twister You’re going to Sodom and Gomorrah But what do you care? Ain’t nobody there would want to marry your sister Friend to the martyr, a friend to the woman of shame You look into the fiery furnace, see the rich man without any name
Jokerman dance to the nightingale tune Bird fly high by the light of the moon Oh, oh, oh, Jokerman
Well, the Book of Leviticus and Deuteronomy The law of the jungle and the sea are your only teachers In the smoke of the twilight on a milk-white steed Michelangelo indeed could’ve carved out your features Resting in the fields, far from the turbulent space Half asleep near the stars with a small dog licking your face
Jokerman dance to the nightingale tune Bird fly high by the light of the moon Oh, oh, oh, Jokerman
Well, the rifleman’s stalking the sick and the lame Preacherman seeks the same, who’ll get there first is uncertain Nightsticks and water cannons, tear gas, padlocks Molotov cocktails and rocks behind every curtain False-hearted judges dying in the webs that they spin Only a matter of time ’til night comes steppin’ in
Jokerman dance to the nightingale tune Bird fly high by the light of the moon Oh, oh, oh, Jokerman
It’s a shadowy world, skies are slippery grey A woman just gave birth to a prince today and dressed him in scarlet He’ll put the priest in his pocket, put the blade to the heat Take the motherless children off the street And place them at the feet of a harlot Oh, Jokerman, you know what he wants Oh, Jokerman, you don’t show any response
Jokerman dance to the nightingale tune Bird fly high by the light of the moon Oh, oh, oh, Jokerman
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Yes there are a few 'jokermans' out there. And indeed, "you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows", especially when a weatherman is so often wrong.
Bob certainly captured so much social and political commentary in his songs, often in just a few words. I think there are some more recent songwriters who reflect today's in your face and often violent political/street life with some similar 'authority' issues that Dylan reflected. Here is the second verse of Tupac Shakurs' 'Thugz Mansion':
Will I survive all the fights and the darkness? Trouble sparks, they tell me home is where the heart is, dear departed I shed tattooed tears and couldn't sleep good for multiple years, witness peers catch gunshots Nobody cares, seen the politicians ban us They'd rather see us locked in chains, please explain why they can't stand us, is there a way for me to change? Or am I just a victim of things I did to maintain? I need a place to rest my head with the little bit of homeboys that remains, cause all the rest dead Is there a spot for us to roll, if you find it I'll be right behind ya, show me and I'll go How can I be peaceful? I'm comin from the bottom Watch my daddy scream peace while the other man shot him I need a house that's full of love when I need to escape the deadly places slingin drugs, in thug's mansion
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Giselle and Penny: I sure have enjoyed your past few posts, thanks!
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Have I a hope, or half a chance To even ask if I could dance with you, yoo hoo Would you greet me or politely turn away Would there suddenly be sunshine on a cold and rainy day Oh babe, what would you say?
For there are you, sweet lollipop Here am I with such a lot to say, hey hey Just to walk with you along the milky way To caress you through the nighttime Bring you flowers everyday Oh babe, what would you say?
'Cause, oh, baby I know I know I could be so in love with you And I know that I could make you love me too And if I could only hear you say you dooo, ooh, ooh, ooh But anyway, what would you say?
Yes, oh, baby I know I know I could so in love with you And I know that I could make you love me too And if I could only hear you say you dooo, ooh, ooh, ooh But anyway, what would you say
By jove I needed that - Now I feel much better!!!!
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