Zaterdag 6 maart 1976
Close Your Eyes (The Five Keys)
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Close Your Eyes
Composer(s): Chuck Willis
First release by: The Five Keys - 1955
Covered by multiple other artists
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Zaterdag 6 maart 1976
Return To Me
Return To Me
Composer(s): Danny DiMinno; Carmen Lombardo
Performer(s): Dean Martin;
and various other artists
Return to me
Oh my dear I'm so lonely
Hurry back hurry back
Oh my love hurry back I'm yours
Return to me
For my heart wants you only
Hurry home hurry home
Won't you please hurry home to my heart
My darling if I hurt you I'm sorry
Forgive me and please say you are mine
Return to me
Please come back bella mia
Hurry back hurry home to my arms
To my lips and my heart
Retorna me
Cara mia ti amo
Solo tu, solo tu, solo tu, solo tu
Mio cuore
Vrijdag 5 maart 1976
The Ruby And The Pearl
The Ruby And The Pearl
Composer(s): Jay Livingston - Ray Evans
First release by: Nat King Cole - 1952
Covered by multiple other artists
There's a warm red ecstasy to love
That makes you tremble with its fire
And there's a pure white majesty to love
When you have both, you have your heart's desire
Can love be as warm as the ruby
Can love be as pure as the pearl
Just look in the heart of my love for you
You'll find the ruby and the pearl
My love will endure as the diamond
And shine with the shimmer of gold
It glows as the bright star above for you
A thing of beauty to behold
Come close and cling to my kiss
Stay close and share the passion of this
Yes, love is as warm as the ruby
And love is as pure as the pearl
Just look in the heart of my love for you
You'll find the ruby and the pearl
The ruby and the pearl
Vrijdag 5 maart 1976
Close Your Eyes (Jack Hylton)
Close Your Eyes
Composer(s): Valerie Carter; Tennent
Performer(s): Jack Hylton
Close your eyes and leave the world behind you
Close your eyes till morning comes to find you
While the stars are shining above
Only our love dreams will remind you
Through the skies a silver moon is sweeping
Close your eyes and soon you will be sleeping
Say "goodnight" and then turn out the light
And close your eyes
Vrijdag 5 maart 1976
Return To Forever
Return To Forever
Composer(s): Richard Rudolph; R. Waldman
Performer(s): Minnie Riperton
Days... floating round the bend
Thru the rainbow's end
Return to forever
Nights... ring around the moon
ending all too soon
Return to forever
When we reach the Autumn's bend
Will we wish that we were young again
Laughing in the face of time
If only we knew now, what we did then
Clouds... billow cross the sky
Changing as they fly
Return to forever
Waves... rush to kiss the shore
Once and nevermore
Go back, return to forever
How I wish that you were mine
And we could live again that summertime
To be that happy just this once again
If only we felt now as we did then
Child... holding out your hand
Please try to understand
Return to forever, return to forever
Donderdag 4 maart 1976
The Rubberband Man
The Rubberband Man
Composer(s): Linda Creed - Thom Bell
Performer(s): The Spinners; Youssou N'Dour; Electric Six
Hand me down my walkin’ cane, hand me down my hat
Hurry now and don’t be late, ‘cause we ain’t got time to chat
You and me, we’re goin’ out to catch the latest sounds
Guaranteed to blow your mind so high you won’t come down!
Hey, y’all prepare yourself for The Rubberband Man!
You never heard a sound like The Rubberband Man!
You’re bound to lose control when The Rubberband starts to jam!
Oh, Lord, this dude is outta sight!
Everything he does seems to come out right!
Once I went to hear him play at a club outside of town
I was so surprised, I was hypnotized by the sound this cat’s puttin’ down!
When I saw this short fat guy stretch a band between his toes
Hey, I laughed so hard ‘cause the man got down when he finally reached his nose!
Hey, y’all prepare yourself for The Rubberband Man!
You never heard a sound like The Rubberband Man!
You’re bound to lose control when The Rubberband starts to jam!
Got that rubberband up on his toes!
And then he wriggled it up all around his nose!
(Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo)
Guaranteed to blow your mind!
(Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo)
Playin’ all that music, yet keepin’ time!
(Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo)
Where in the world did he learn that?! Oh, Lord!
(Doo doo doo doo doo)
Lord, help him get away!
Hey, y’all prepare yourself for The Rubberband Man!
You never heard a sound like The Rubberband Man!
You’re bound to lose control when The Rubberband starts to jam!
Doo doo doo doo doo,
Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo!
Doo doo doo doo doo,
Rubberband Man, Rubberband Man!
(Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo)
Doo doo doo doo doo!
(Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo)
Mmm! Watch him! He keep a-move, a-just a mo-vin'!
(Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo)
Got a groovin' on the corner!
(Doo doo doo doo doo)
He's had enough, y’all!
Whoa-oh-oh!
Hey, y’all prepare yourself for The Rubberband Man!
You never heard a sound like The Rubberband Man!
You’re bound to lose control when The Rubberband starts to jam!
Ah-yah-yah-yah-yah!
Whoa, that Rubberband Man's a doozy!
Move so quick, Lord, he makes me lose it!
(Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo)
And then he stops the show, now!
He wiggled it up, he wiggled it down!
(Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo)
Got his feet to movin', and that Rubberband off the ground!
(Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo)
He lifted it way up high, ha!
In the sky, 'y'all!
(Doo doo doo doo doo)
Oh get with it, y’all!
Hey, y’all prepare yourself for The Rubberband Man!
You never heard a sound like The Rubberband Man!
You’re bound to lose control when The Rubberband starts to jam!
Doo doo doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo!
Doo doo doo doo doo doo
Rubberband Man, oh!
(Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo)
How much of this stuff do he think we can stand?
(Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo)
So much rhythm, grace and debonair from one man, Lord!
(Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo)
And then he had nerve to wiggle his left toe!
(Doo doo doo doo doo)
To his knee, got the feelin’ in his head, y’all!
Ah, come on, baby!
Hey, y’all prepare yourself for The Rubberband Man!
You never heard a sound like The Rubberband Man!
You’re bound to lose control when The Rubberband starts to jam!
Rubberband Man starts to jam,
Movin’ up and down across the land!
Got people all in his ways,
Everything about him seems out of place!
(Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo)
Just a movin’, just a movin’, just a move-move-movin’
Just a Rubberband, Rubberband Man!
(Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo)
Just a movin’, just a movin’, just a move-move-movin’
Just a Rubberband, Rubberband Man, get down!
(Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo)
Oh, get down lover, uh-huh!
(Doo doo doo doo doo)
Oh, he can jam, y'all!
Hey, y’all prepare yourself for The Rubberband Man!
You never heard a sound like The Rubberband Man! (He never fails to groove!)
You’re bound to lose (And did you see him move?) control when The Rubberband starts to jam!
Oohwee! What's he doin' to me?!
Rhythms I ain't felt before!
Just move 'em up by me!
(Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo)
Gotta move! I gotta groove!
Rubberband Man, oh-oh-oh!
(Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo)
Ah-yah-yah-yah!
(Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo)
The way he twiddles his toes and can play it on his nose is twofold!
(Doo doo doo doo doo)
How does he do it, y’all?!
I don't know!
Hey, y’all prepare yourself for The Rubberband Man!
You never heard a sound like The Rubberband Man!
You’re bound to lose control when The Rubberband starts to jam!
I'm ready to jam, ugh! Gonna do my Rubberband!
I'm ready to jam, ugh! Gonna do my Rubberband!
(Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo)
Twang-a-twang-a-twang-a-twang-a-twang!
Ugh! Lord, have mercy!
(Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo)
Twang-a-twang-a-twang-a-twang-a-twang!
Ugh! Just stopped me in my bones!
(Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo)
Twang-a-twang-a-twang-a-twang-a-twang!
Don't mess with me, y'all! I got a groove when I'm here!
(Doo doo doo doo doo)
Ah-yah-yah-yah!
Hey, y’all prepare yourself for The Rubberband Man!
You never heard a sound like The Rubberband Man!
You’re bound to lose control when The Rubberband starts to jam!
Oh, he's a big, fat man that moves real good!
Everybody oughta knock on wood!
When you see The Man do his stuff
Oh, Lord, I done seen enough!
(Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo)
A groovy show! Gotta standing room, side-to-side!
(Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo)
Oh, gimme a grip and then a-hold on tight!
(Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo)
Oh, he's The Man! The Rubberband Man!!
(Doo doo doo doo doo!)
Donderdag 4 maart 1976
Close Your Eyes (Freddie Martin)
Close Your Eyes
Composer(s): Bernice Petkere
Originally performed by: Freddie Martin
Covered by various other artists
Music play
something dreamy for dancing
while we're here romancing
It's love's holiday
And Love will be our guide
Close your Eyes
When you open them dear
I'll be right hear by your side
So...
Close your eyes
rest your head on my shoulder and sleep
Close your eyes
And I will close mine
Close your eyes
Let's pretend that we're both counting sheep
Close your eyes
This is divine
Music play
something dreamy for dancing
while were here romancing
It's love's holiday
And Love will be our guide
Close your Eyes
When you open them dear
I'll be near by your side
So won't you close your eyes...
Donderdag 4 maart 1976
Return To Camp Grenada
Return To Camp Grenada
Performer(s): Allan Sherman
Hello muddah, hello faddah
I am back at Camp Grenada
And I'm writing you this letter
Just to say my compound fracture's getting better
Noone here knows where my trunk is
And my bunk is where the skunk is
But the food here is improving
'Cause the little black things in it are not moving
Our camp nurse is quite a swimmer
She says swimming makes you slimmer
Her name's Mrs. Pellagrini
Have you ever seen a whale in a bikini?
All our bathrooms have such thin doors
Gee I'd wish they'd move them indoors
We're all tired of mother goose here
So next Friday night they're having Lenny Bruce here
Let me stay, oh muddah, faddah let me stay
I love Grenada every night the campfire's really keen
Oh ma please send some unguintine
Let me stay, up here in muddah nature's land
And tiptoe through the tulips grand
To leave would be a shame
Besides, I'd miss the poker game
Please don't worry, faddah, muddah
I'll take care of little brudda
He plays ball here and he rows here
And I hope they teach him how to blow his nose here
He wakes up half past six hand
Goes directly to the quicksand
He was lonely, now he's better
He's like all of us except his bed is wetter
Woensdag 3 maart 1976
The Royal Scam
The Royal Scam
Composer(s): Donald Fagen - Walter Becker
Performer(s): Steely Dan
And they wandered in
From the city of St. John
Without a dime
Wearing coats that shined
Both red and green
Colors from their sunny island
From their boats of iron
They looked upon the promised land
Where surely life was sweet
On the rising tide
To New York City
Did they ride into the street
See the glory
Of the royal scam
They are hounded down
To the bottom of a bad town
Amid the ruins
Where they learn to fear
An angry race of fallen kings
Their dark companions
While the memory of
Their southern sky was clouded by
A savage winter
Every patron saint
Hung on the wall, shared the room
With twenty sinners
See the glory
Of the royal scam
By the blackened wall
He does it all
He thinks he's died and gone to heaven
Now the tale is told
By the old man back home
He reads the letter
How they are paid in gold
Just to babble in the back room
All night and waste their time
And they wandered in
From the city of St. John without a dime
See the glory
Of the royal scam
Woensdag 3 maart 1976
Close Your Eyes (Edward Bear)
Close Your Eyes
Performer(s): Edward Bear
Close Your Eyes
I dreamed she came back home last night
Asked her where she'd been
She said I've been around the world and
It almost did me in
She said I hope you didn't wait too long
I have no sense of time
I see you've written one Last Song
And I realized it's mine
Think of all the times we talked
Sing a nursery rhyme
Close your eyes
I'm right beside you
Run for miles you know I'll find you
Cause it's all the same
Change your lovers
Change your name
If you need a friend
Close your eyes
I'm back again
She really came back home last night
Seemed as if she'd changed
Said that she go back to school
And try things once again
But you know it didn't take too long
Till she lost her way
And all the reason in the world could see
She couldn't stay
As I helped her pack her things
It didn't hurt to say
Close your eyes
I'm right beside you
Run for miles you know I'll find you
Cause it's all the same
Change your lovers
Change your name
If you need a friend
Close your eyes
I'm back again
'Cause it's all the same
Change your lovers
Change your name
If you need a friend
Close your eyes
I'm back again
Woensdag 3 maart 1976
Return Of The Grievous Angel
Return Of The Grievous Angel
Composer(s): Thomas S. Brown; Gram Parsons
Performer(s): Gram Parsons;
and various other artists
Won't you scratch my itch sweet Annie Rich
And welcome me back to town
Come out on your porch or I'll step into your parlor
And I'll show you how it all went down
Out with the truckers and the kickers and the cowboy angels
And a good saloon in every single town
Oh, and I remember something you once told me
And I'll be damned if it did not come true
Twenty thousand roads I went down, down, down
And they all lead me straight back home to you
`Cause I headed West to grow up with the country
Across those prairies with the waves of grain
And I saw my devil,
and I saw my deep blue sea
And I thought about a calico bonnet from
Cheyenne to Tennessee
We flew straight across that river bridge
last night a half past two
The switchman wave his lantern goodbye
and so long as we went rolling through
Billboards and truckstops pass by the grievous angel
And now I know just what I have to do
And the man on the radio won't leave me alone
He wants to take my money for something
that I've never been shown
And I saw my devil
and I saw my deep blue sea
And I thought about a calico bonnet from
Cheyenne to Tennessee
The news I could bring I met up with the king
On his head an amphetamine crown
He talked about unbuckling that old bible belt
And lighted out for some desert town
Out with the truckers and the kickers and the cowboy angels
And a good saloon in every single town
Oh, but I remembered something you once told me
And I'll be damned if it did not come true
Twenty thousand roads I went down, down, down
And they all lead me straight back home to you
Twenty thousand roads I went down, down, down
And they all lead me straight back home to you
Dinsdag 2 maart 1976
The Roving Kind
The Roving Kind
(Adapted from: The Pirate Ship)
Composer(s): Jesse Cavanaugh - Arnold Stanton
Performer(s): Guy Mitchell
and multiple other artists
(She had a dark and a rovin' eye-i-eye)
(And her hair hung down in ring-a-lets)
(She was a nice girl, a proper girl)
(But one of the rovin' kind)
As I cruised out one eve-a-ning upon a night's career
I spied a lofty clipper ship and to her I did steer
I heisted out my sig-a-nals, which she so quickly knew
And when she saw my bunting fly, she immediately hove too-oo-oo
(She had a dark and a rovin' eye-i-eye)
(And her hair hung down in ring-a-lets)
(She was a nice girl, a proper girl)
(But one of the rovin' kind)
I took her for some fish and chips and treated her so fine
And hardly did I realise she was the rovin' kind
I kissed her lips, I missed her lips and found to my surprise
She was nothin' but a pirate ship rigged up in a disgui-i-ise
(She had a dark and a rovin' eye-i-eye)
And her hair hung down in ring-a-lets
(She was a nice girl, a proper girl)
(But one of the rovin' kind)
So come all ye good sailor men who sail the wint'ry sea
And come all you apprentice lads, a warnin' take from me
Beware of lofty clipper ships, they'll be the ruin of you
For it t'was there that she made me walk the plank and pushed me under
too-hoo-hoo
(She had a dark and a rovin' eye-i-eye)
(And her hair hung down in ring-a-lets)
She was a nice girl, a proper girl
But one of the rovin' kind
(She was a nice girl, a proper girl)
But one of the rovin' kind
Dinsdag 2 maart 1976
Close Up The Honky Tonks
Close Up The Honky Tonks
Composer(s): Red Simpson
Performer(s): Buck Owens
and various other artists
She's in some honky tonk tonight I know
She's dancing where the music's loud and lights are low
In a crowed bar she likes to hang around
And as long as there's a honky tonk, she'll never settle down
So close up the honky tonks, lock all the doors
Don't let the one I love go there any more
Close up the honky tonks, throw away the key
Then maybe the one I love will come back to me
I wish I had the power to turn back the time
And live again the hours when she was all mine
But it hurts to see her running with that crowd down
And as long as there's a honky tonk, she'll never settle down
Dinsdag 2 maart 1976
Return Of The Farmer's Son
Return Of The Farmer's Son
Composer(s): Brian Downey; Phil Lynott
Performer(s): Thin Lizzy
Well my father is a farmer
A damn good one at his trade
And he's always loved my mama
Though we laid her in the grave
I've been down, I've been down
A hustler and a cheat
I'll always love my father
His kind heart can't be beat
Oh...
I'd spit in your face if you laughed at me
Don't you know, don't you know
I might be a dipper, but I ain't a thief
Don't you know, don't you know
Oh yeah...
Come on...
Well my father is a farmer
Used to smack me on the ass
Used to dress me up in my sunday best
Get down, get down to sunday mass
And I've been down, so down
Don't you know, don't you know
I'll always love my father
I love him so
Maandag 1 maart 1976
The Rover
The Rover
Composer(s): Robert Plant - Jimmy Page
First release by: Led Zeppelin - 1975
Covered by multiple other artists
I've been to London, seen seven wonders
I know to trip is just to fall
I used to rock it, sometimes I'd roll it
I always knew what it was for
There can be no denyin'
That the wind'll shake 'em down
And the flat world's flyin'
There's a new plague on the land
If we could just join hands
If we could just join hands
If we could just join hands
Traversed the planet when heaven sent me
I saw the kings who rule them all
Still by the firelight and purple moonlight
I hear the rested rivers call
And the wind is crying
From a love that won't grow cold
My lover, she is lying
On the dark side of the globe
If we could just join hands
If we could just join hands
If we could just join hands
You got me rockin'
When I ought to be a-rollin'
Darlin', tell me, darlin'
Which way to go
You keep me rockin', baby
Then you keep me stolen
Won't you tell me, darlin'
Which way to go, that's right
Oh how I wonder, oh how I worry
And I would dearly like to know
If all this wonder of earthly plunder
Will it leave us anything to show
And our time is flyin'
See the candle burnin' low
Is the new world rising
From the shambles of the old?
If we could just join hands
Maandag 1 maart 1976
Close To You (Judas Priest)
Close To You
Composer(s): K.K. Downing; Glenn Tipton
Performer(s): Judas Priest
So many years that we were one
So many things we've done
The memories alive
But most of me has died
As I struggle with events
I'm offered words of strength
They do not comprehend
The passion we possessed
People tell me what to do
Tell me how I should get through
But they haven't got a clue
No-one else comes close to you
I see your eyes before they closed
They looked right inside my soul
And they asked me not to grieve
I tried but still I bleed
I wake up, I break up
I try hard to shake off
The desolation as it grows
As nothing else comes close
And as I stand here by the grave
And the wind calls out your name
I know that time could never heal
The emptiness I feel
People try to give me hope
Tell me how I should let go
But they'll never really know
'Cause there's nothing else comes close
People tell me what to do
Yell me how I should get through
But they haven't got a clue
No-one else comes close to you
Maandag 1 maart 1976
Retrovisor
Retrovisor
Composer(s): Raimundo Fagner; Fausto Nilo
Performer(s): Raimundo Fagner;
Anselmo Cabral; Zezé Di Camargo
Onde a máquina me leva não há nada
Horizontes e fronteiras são iguais
Se agora tudo que eu mais quero já ficou pra trás
Qualquer um que leva a vida nessa estrada
Só precisa de uma sombra pra chegar
A saudade vai batendo e o coração dispara
Mas de repente a velocidade chora
Não vejo a hora de voltar pra casa
A luz do teu olhar no fim do túnel
E no espelho a minha solidão
O céu da ilusão que não se acaba
A música do vento que não pára
Será que a luz do meu destino vai te encontrar
Vejo a manhã de sol entrando em casa
Iluminando os gritos das crianças
Os momentos mais bonitos na lembrança
Não vão se apagar
Ai quem me dera encontrar contigo agora
E esquecer as curvas dessa estrada
Eu prefiro sonhar com os rios
E lavar minh’alma
Alguém sentado à beira do caminho
Jamais entenderá o que é que eu sinto agora
Sou levado pelo movimento
Que a tua falta faz
Havia tanta paz no teu carinho
Na despedida fez um dia lindo
Quem sabe tudo estará sorrindo
Quando eu voltar
Zondag 29 februari 1976
The Rose Of Tralee
The Rose Of Tralee
Composer(s): Charles Glover - Mordaunt Spencer
Performer(s): Webster Booth
and multiple other artists
The pale moon was rising above the green mountain
The sun was declining beneath the blue sea
When I strayed with my love to the pure crystal fountain
That stands in the beautiful vale of Tralee
She was lovely and fair, as the rose of the summer
Yet t'was not her beauty alone that won me
Oh no, t'was the truth in her eyes ever dawning
That made me love Mary, the Rose of Tralee!
The cool shades of evening their mantle were spreading
And Mary, all smiling, was listening to me
The moon through the valley her pale rays was shedding
When I won the heart of the Rose of Tralee
Though lovely and fair, as the rose of the summer
Yet t'was not her beauty alone that won me
Oh no, t'was the truth in her eyes ever dawning
That made me love Mary, the Rose of Tralee!
Zondag 29 februari 1976
Close To You (Frank Sinatra)
Close To You
Composer(s): Al Hoffman; Carl G. Lampl; Jerry Livingston
Performer(s): Frank Sinatra
Close to you, I will always stay
Close to you, though you're far away
You'll always be near as though you were here by my side
No matter where - in my dreams I'll find you there
Close to me, sharing you're caress
Can't you see you're my happiness?
Wherever you go, my heart will go, too
What can I do?
It only wants to be close to you
Wherever you go, my heart will go, too
What can I do?
It only wants to be close to you
Zondag 29 februari 1976
Ruby Baby
