Zaterdag 15 oktober 1983
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Isn't It Wonderful, Isn't It Swell
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Zaterdag 15 oktober 1983
Nights In White Satin


Nights In White Satin
Italian Titles: Un Po D'Amore; Ho Difeso Il Mio Amore
Composer(s): Justin Hayward
Performer(s): The Moody Blues
Nights in white satin never reaching the end
Letters I've written never meaning to send
Beauty I'd always missed with these eyes before
Just what the truth is
I can't say any more
'Cause I love you
Yes I love you
Oh how I love you
Gazing at people some hand in hand
Just what I'm going through they can't understand
Some try to tell me thoughts they cannot defend
Just what you want to be you'll be in the end
And I love you
Yes I love you
Oh how I love you, oh
Vrijdag 14 oktober 1983
Isn't It Romantic?


Isn't It Romantic?
Composer(s): Lorenz Hart; Richard Rodgers
First performance by: Maurice Chevalier, Rolfe Sedan, Bert Roach, Jeanette MacDonald - 1932
Covered by multiple other artists
I've never met you, yet never doubt, dear
I can't forget you, I've thought you out, dear
I know your profile and I know the way you kiss
just the things I miss on a night like this
If dreams are made of imagination
I'm not afraid of my own creation
With all my heart, my heart is here for you to take
Why should I quake? I'm not awake
Isn't it romantic?
Music in the night, a dream that can be heard
Isn't it romantic?
Moving shadows write the oldest magic word
I hear the breezes playing in the trees above
while all the world is saying you were meant for love
Isn't it romantic
merely to be young on such a night as this?
Isn't it romantic?
Every note that's sung is like a lover's kiss
Sweet symbols in the moonlight
do you mean that I will fall in love per chance?
Isn't it romance?
My face is glowing, I'm energetic
The art of sewing I found poetic
My needle punctuates the rhythm of romance
I don't give a stitch if I don't get rich
A custom tailor who has no custom
is like a sailor, no one will trust 'em
But there is magic in the music of my shears
I shed no tears, lend me your ears
Isn't it romantic?
Soon I will have found some girl that I adore
Isn't it romantic?
While I sit around my love can scrub the floor
She'll kiss me every hour or she'll get the sack
and when I take a shower she can scrub my back
Isn't it romantic?
On a moonlight night she'll cook me onion soup
Kiddies are romantic
and if we don't fight we soon will have a troupe
We'll help the population
it's a duty that we owe to dear old France
Isn't it romance?
Vrijdag 14 oktober 1983
Nights Are Forever Without You


Nights Are Forever Without You
Composer(s): Parker McGee
Performer(s): Dan Seals;
and various other artists
Lyin' in bed with the radio on
Moonlight falls like rain
Soft summer nights spent thinkin' of you
When will I see you again
Chorus:
Soft and low the music moans
I can't stop thinking about you
Thinkin' 'bout you
I didn't know it would be so strong
Waiting and wondering about you
I didn't know it would last so long
Nights are forever without you
The curtains still dance with the wind and the sky
The sun'll be coming up soon
But I just can't sleep for thinkin' of you
Here alone with the moon
(repeat Chorus)
Donderdag 13 oktober 1983
Isn't It A Pity? (George Harrison)


Isn't It A Pity?
(Spanish Version: No Es Una Pena? - 2008)
Composer(s): George Harrison
First release by: George Harrison - 1970
Covered by multiple other artists
Isn't it a pity, isn't it a shame
How we break each other's hearts, and
cause each other pain
How we take each other's love, without
thinking anymore
Forgetting to give back
Isn't it a pity
Somethings take so long, but how do I
explain?
When not too many people can see we're
all the same
And because of all their tears, their eyes
can't hope to see
The beauty that surrounds them-oh
Isn't it a pity
Donderdag 13 oktober 1983
Nightingale


Nightingale
Composer(s): Richard Coburn; Vincent Rose
Performer(s): Frederick S. Manning
Somewhere the nightingale is singing from above
he promised that he's be my messenger of love
and I am yearning for his returning
It seems that's all I'm thinking of
The nightingale knows why I'm feeling sad and blue
somehow I know that he is feeling lonesome too
that's why he's heeding my tender pleading
and sings to her the whole night thru
Nightingale when you are singing tenderly oh tell her nightingale
That it's a lover's melody just so whenever you are singing
she'll know the message you are bringing
nightingale bring back my love to me
Woensdag 12 oktober 1983
No Es Una Pena?


No Es Una Pena?
(Adapted from: Isn't It A Pity? - 1970)
Composer(s): George Harrison; Pedro Aznar
Performer(s): Pedro Aznar - 2008
No te pone triste?
No te da dolor?
La crueldad de unos con otros
La sombra del rencor
Como a veces sin pensar
Tomamos el amor
Y no lo retribuimos
No te pone triste?
Las cosas llevan tiempo
No es fácil de explicar
Cuando tan poca gente
Ve al otro como igual
Y sus lagrimas sin fin
Quizás ya no le dejen ver
Lo bello que es el mundo
No te pone triste?
No te pone triste?
No te da dolor?
La crueldad de unos con otros
La sombra del rencor
Como a veces sin pensar
Tomamos el amor
Y no lo retribuimos
No te pone triste?
Woensdag 12 oktober 1983
Nighthawkin'


Nighthawkin'
Composer(s): Tim Buckley
Performer(s): Tim Buckley
I was a nighthawkin' in my taxi
My fare was a shaky ol' lush
So I kicked it over and took off
Then he whipped out this switch blade
Straight outta nowhere level to my throat
He said "See reb I've been over to the war boy"
I said "I was a combat paratrooper daddy"
Well now he slupped back cool and he pocket that steel
He said "Get me down to fourth and main"
Dinsdag 11 oktober 1983
Isn't It A Pity? (George Givot & Josephine Huston)


Isn't It A Pity?
Composer(s): George Gershwin; Ira Gershwin
First performance by: George Givot & Josephine Huston - 1933
Covered by multiple other artists
Why did I wander here and there and yonder
Wasting precious time for no reason or rhyme?
Isn't it a pity? Isn't it a crime?
My journey's ended, everything is splendid
Meeting you today
Has given me a wonderful idea - here I stay
It's a funny thing
I look at you, I get a thrill I never knew
Isn't it a pity we never met before?
Here we are at last
It's like a dream, the two of us a perfect team
Isn't it a pity we never met before?
Imagine all the lonely years we've wasted
You with the neighbors, I at silly labors
What joys untasted
You reading Heine, me somewhere in China
Let's forget the past
Let's both agree that I'm for you and you're for me
And it's such a pity we never, never met before
Imagine all the lonely year's we've wasted
Fishing for salmon, losing at backgammon
What joys untasted
My nights were sour spent with Schopenhauer
Let's forget the past
Let's both agree that I'm for you and you're for me
And it's such a pity we never, never met before
Dinsdag 11 oktober 1983
Nightflight To Venus


Nightflight To Venus
Composer(s): Frank Farian; Fred Jay; Dietmar Kawohl
Performer(s): Boney M.
Ladies and Gentlemen
welcome aboard the starship Boney M
for our first passenger flight to Venus
Ready for count-down:
10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 - ignition - lift off
Nightflight to Venus
Way out there in space
Nightflight to Venus
Our new fav'rite place
Nightflight to Venus
All systems are go
Nightflight to Venus
The sky is aglow
Ladies and Gentlemen, we've had a successful
take-off on this first Nightflight to Venus
Our flying time will be 8 hours
We'll be travelling at a speed of 2183 miles per second
Nightflight to Venus
Nightflight to Venus
Captain - unidentified object at 8 o'clock - 2 million miles away
Stand by for emergency manoeuvre
Object coming closer at the speed of light
We have 8 more seconds
Change course by 4 point 6 degrees
Order admitted
Ladies and Gentlemen, in a few minutes we are going
to be landing on Venus, push the button on your left side
the safety mechanism will do the rest for you
We hope you enjoyed the world's first Nightflight to Venus
have a good time there
Maandag 10 oktober 1983
Isle Of Islay


Isle Of Islay
Composer(s): Donovan Leitch
Performer(s): Donovan; Jerry Peel; Winter Flowers
How high the gulls fly o'er Islay
How sad the farm lad deep in play
Felt like a grain on your sand
How well the sheep's bell music makes
Rovin' the cliff when fancy takes
Felt like the tide left me here
How blest the forest with birds' song
How neat the cut peat laid so long
Felt like a seed on your land
How high the gulls fly o'er Islay
How sad the farm lad deep in play
Felt like the tide left me here
Felt like a grain on your sand
Felt like a grain on your sand
Maandag 10 oktober 1983
Nightclubbing


Nightclubbing
Composer(s): David Bowie; Iggy Pop
Performer(s): Iggy Pop;
and various other artists
Nightclubbing we're nightclubbing
We're what's happening
Nightclubbing we're nightclubbing
We're an ice machine
We see people brand new people
They're something to see
Nightclubbing we're nightclubbing
Oh isn't it wild?
Nightclubbing we're nightclubbing
We're walking through town
Nightclubbing we're nightclubbing
We walk like a ghost
We learn dances brand new dances
Like the nuclear bomb
When we're nightclubbing
Bright white clubbing
Oh isn't it wild...
Zondag 9 oktober 1983
Isle Of Hope, Isle Of Tears


Isle Of Hope, Isle Of Tears
Composer(s): Brendan Graham
Performer(s): Seán Keane
and multiple other artists
On the first day on January
Eighteen ninety-two
They opened Ellis Island and they let
The people through
And the first to cross the treshold
Of that isle of hope and tears
Was Annie Moore from Ireland
Who was all of fifteen years
Isle of hope, isle of tears
Isle of freedom, isle of fears
But it's not the isle you left behind
That isle of hunger, isle of pain
Isle you'll never see again
But the isle of home is always on your mind
In a little bag she carried
All her past and history
And her dreams for the future
In the land of liberty
And courage is the passport
When your old world disappears
But there's no future in the past
When you're fifteen years
Isle of hope, isle of tears
Isle of freedom, isle of fears
But it's not the isle you left behind
That isle of hunger, isle of pain
Isle you'll never see again
But the isle of home is always on your mind
When they closed down Ellis Island
In nineteen fourty-three
Seventeen million people
Had come there for sanctuary
And in Springtime when I came here
And I stepped onto it's piers
I thought of how it must have been
When you're fifteen years
Isle of hope, isle of tears
Isle of freedom, isle of fears
But it's not the isle you left behind
That isle of hunger, isle of pain
Isle you'll never see again
But the isle of home is always on your mind
Zondag 9 oktober 1983
Nightbird


Nightbird
Composer(s): Stevie Nicks; Sandy Stewart
Performer(s): Stevie Nicks
And the summer became the fall
I was not ready for the winter
It makes no difference at all
Cause I wear boots all summer long
My makeup dark and it's careless
Same circles around my eyes
Sometimes the real color of my skin
Is my eyes without any shadow
And when I call
Will you walk gently
Through my shadow
The ones who sing at night
The ones who sing at night
The ones you dream of
The ones who walk away
With their capes pulled around them tight
Cryin for the night
Cry for the nightbird tonight
The winter's really here now
And the blankets that I love
Sometimes I am surrounded
By too much love
And when I call
Will you walk gently
Through my shadow
The ones who sing at night
The ones who sing at night
The ones you dream of
The ones who walk away
With their capes pulled around them tight
Cryin for the night
Cry for the nightbird tonight
Zaterdag 8 oktober 1983
Isle Of Capri


Isle Of Capri
Composer(s): Will Grosz; Jimmy Kennedy
Performer(s): Frank Sinatra
and multiple other artists
`t Was on the Isle of Capri that I found her
Beneath the shade of an old walnut tree
Oh, I can still see the flowers blooming round her
Where we met on the Isle of Capri
She was as sweet as a rose at the dawning
But somehow fate hadn't meant her for me
And though I sailed with the tide in the morning
Still my heart's on the Isle of Capri
Summertime was nearly over
Blue Italian sky above
I said "Lady, I'm a rover,
Can you spare a sweet word of love?"
She whispered softly "It's best not to linger"
And then as I kissed her hand I could see
She wore a lovely meatball on her finger
't Was goodbye at the Villa Capri
Summertime was nearly over
Blue Italian sky above
I said "Lady, I'm a rover,
Can you spare a fine word of love?"
She whispered softly "It's best not to linger"
And then as I kissed her hand I could see
She wore a plain golden ring on her finger
't Was goodbye on the Isle of Capri
't Was goodbye on the Isle of Capri
't Was goodbye on the Isle of Capri
Zaterdag 8 oktober 1983
Night Vision


Night Vision
Composer(s): K. Elam; Victor Flowers; Isaac Hayes
Performer(s): Guru & Isaac Hayes
(Isaac Hayes)
When the sun goes down and the moon comes up
You can see a lot of things if you look deep enough
It's all around
(Guru)
The city skyline, in the nighttime, be the right time, to ball out
(Yeah) Who's the real pimp, gangster hustler, you call out
Is it him, is it him or is it, Dukes over there?
Real recognizes real, so yo, no one cares
The chief executive mack, in so deep you can't imagine
I've seen the beatdowns, the gunfights, plus the paddywagon
See daddy with his pants saggin, pushin whips that's too fly
Switchin up to a suit and tie, ladies say he's too cute to lie
(Forget about it) And none of my girls, wanna, talk to you
Plus, none of my boys, gotta, talk to you
Cause when you see me, they'll be somewhere in the cut
And you can't be me, so nip that weak talk in the butt
The party's crowded, and everyone, is showin love
Whassup, what's the deal, how's things holdin up?
(Whassup young blood?)
The smooth dude, that moves through, with the utmost precision
Truly a wiseguy, seein life with my night vision
(Isaac Hayes)
See that young blood, comin down the street
Don't be hypnotized by the stride of his feet..
Pickpockets.. streetwalkers.. number runners.. hustlers
(Guru)
Lots of ladies, wanna, check me out
And lots of haters, wanna, X me out
I got more style than Gucci, Louis or Prada
Drop more jewels on you, than your uncle or father
Once this envious kid, was temptin me kid
to stoop down to his level and cold empty his wig
He was mad cause his girl wanted up in my world (hahahaha)
I looked the other way, and she was still, stuck in my world
Aiyyo; baby wants to run with me, come with me, have fun with me
I be the man when I'm dipped, or in a t-shirt, and dungarees
I overheard her man, that was screamin in her ear
while I nodded to my peeps, who was schemin in the rear
If he's gon' flip, he's gonna, find out quick
That I stroll with a click, and we roll mad thick
He shook my hand and laughed it off, that was his best decision
We keep it tight aight? Hangin out, with that night vision
(Isaac Hayes)
I bust into this night club
I can see you perpetraters
Passin out your BID'ness cards
Wearin your knockoff gators
Pimps.. heartbreakers.. dumb-ass Johns..
You got to make a decision, to go witcha instincts
and rely on your night vision
Vrijdag 7 oktober 1983
Islands (King Crimson)


Islands
Composer(s): Robert Fripp; Peter Sinfield
Performer(s): King Crimson
Earth, stream and tree encircled by sea
Waves sweep the sand from my island
My sunsets fade
Field and glade wait only for rain
Grain after grain love erodes my
High weathered walls which fend off the tide
Cradle the wind to my island
Gaunt granite climbs where gulls wheel and glide
Mournfully glide o'er my island
My dawn bride's veil, damp and pale
Dissolves in the sun
Love's web is spun - cats prowl, mice run
Wreathe snatch-hand briars where owls
know my eyes
Violet skies
Touch my island
Touch me
Beneath the wind turned wave
Infinite peace
Islands join hands
'Neath heaven's sea
Dark harbour quays like fingers of stone
Hungrily reach from my island
Clutch sailor's words - pearls and gourds
Are strewn on my shore
Equal in love, bound in circles
Earth, stream and tree return to the sea
Waves sweep sand from my island, from me
Vrijdag 7 oktober 1983
Night Train


Night Train
Composer(s): Rickie Lee Jones
Performer(s): Rickie Lee Jones
Here I'm going
Walking with my baby in my arms
Cuz I am in the wrong end of this eight ball black
And the devil, see, he's right behind us
And this worker said she's gonna take my little baby
My little angel black
But they won't getcha
Cuz I'm right here witcha
On the Night Train
Swing low, Saint Cadillac
Tearin' down the alley
And I'm reaching so high for ya
Don't let 'em take me back
Broken like valiums and chumps in the rain
That cry and quiver
When a Blue Horizon is sleeping in the station
With a ticket for a train
Surely mine will deliver me there
Here she comes...
I'm safe here with you
On the Night Train
Oh mamma, mamma
Concrete is wheeling by
Down at the end of a lullaby
On the Night Train
Donderdag 6 oktober 1983
Islands (Bonnie Tyler)


Islands
Composer(s): Mike Oldfield
Performer(s): Bonnie Tyler
Islands, from the first time we saw
We could wait for this moment, like rocks on the shore
We can never be closer, somehow
For the moment that lasts, is this moment now
When the night's on fire, will you keep the candlelight burning?
Hold on to your heart's desire (When the night's on fire)
When you see one bird into the wind, another one's turning
And the two can fly much higher
We are islands, but never too far
We are islands
And I need your light tonight
And I need your light tonight
We are islands, but never too far
We are islands
And I need your light tonight
And I need your light tonight
Islands, never been to before
And we climb so high to where the wild birds soar
There's a new path that we found just today
I was lost in the forest and you showed me the way
When the night's on fire, will you keep the candlelight burning?
Hold on to your heart's desire (When the night's on fire)
When you see one bird into the wind, another one's turning
And the two can fly much higher
Donderdag 6 oktober 1983
Night Time Is The Right Time



