Woensdag 16 juli 2008
Let's Get Closer
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Let's Get Closer
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Woensdag 16 juli 2008
Broadway Baby
Broadway Baby
Composer(s): Stephen Sondheim
I'm just a Broadway Baby
Walking off my tired feet
Pounding Forty Second Street
To be in a show
Broadway Baby
Learning how to sing and dance
Waiting for that one big chance
To be in a show
Gee, I'd like to be on some marquee
All twinkling lights
A spark to pierce the dark
From Batt'ry Park to Washington Heights
Some day maybe
All my dreams will be repaid
I can get to strut my stuff
Working for a nice man
Like a Ziegfeld or a Weissman
In a big-time Broadway show!
Heck, I'd even play the maid
To be in a show
Say, Mister producer
Some girls get the breaks
Just give me my cue, sir
I've got what it takes
Say, Mister Producer
I'm talkin' to you, sir
I don't need a lot
Only what I got
Plus a tube of greasepaint and a follow spot!
I'm a Broadway Baby
Slaving at the five and ten
Dreaming of the great day
When I'll be in a show
Broadway Baby
Making rounds all afternoon
Eating at a greasy spoon
To save on my dough
At my tiny flat there's just my cat
A bed and a chair
Still I'll stick it till
I'm on a bill all over Times Square
Some day maybe
If I stick it long enough
I can get to strut my stuff
Work-ing for a nice man
Like a Ziegfeld or a Weissman
In a big-time Broadway show!
Heck, I'd even play the maid
To be in a show
Say, Mister producer
Some girls get the breaks
Just give me my cue, sir
I've got what it takes
Say, Mister Producer
I'm talkin' to you, sir
I don't need a lot
Only what I got
Plus a tube of greasepaint and a follow spot!
Dinsdag 15 juli 2008
Barbara (Willy Sommers)
Barbara
((Adapted from: Babacar (by France Gall) - 1987))
Composer(s): Michel Berger - Jo De Clercq
Performer(s): Willy Sommers - 1993
Je staat op de eerste rij
Een vriendinnetje erbij
Altijd giechelen met twee
Je lacht uitdagend lang naar mij
Werkt je make-up nog wat bij
'k Schat je vijftien ongeveer
Meer dan leuk om te zien
Morgen huil je misschien
En dan ben ik je kwijt, voor altijd
Barbara (wie ben je, wie ben je)
Barbara (wie ben je, wie ben je)
Ik heb je Barbara genoemd
Je gaf me bloemen en een zoen
'k Zou die zo graag overdoen, oooh oooh
Barbara (wie ben je, wie ben je)
Barbara (wie ben je, wie ben je)
Er zijn er zoveel zoals jij
Jonge meisjes vrank en vrij
Maar vanbinnen zo fragiel
Blote schouders, slanke nek
Je maakt de mannen stapelgek
Spelen met je sex-appeal
Maar de dag zal nog komen
Je ontwaakt uit je dromen
Want een meisje wordt zo gauw een vrouw
Barbara (wie ben je, wie ben je)
Barbara (wie ben je, wie ben je)
Ik heb je Barbara genoemd
Je gaf me bloemen en een zoen
'k Zou die zo graag overdoen, oooh oooh
Barbara (wie ben je, wie ben je)
Barbara (wie ben je, wie ben je)
Wie ben je, wie ben je
Wie ben je, wie ben je
Barbara (wie ben je, wie ben je)
Barbara (wie ben je, wie ben je)
Barbara (wie ben je, wie ben je)
Barbara (wie ben je, wie ben je)
Barbara (wie ben je, wie ben je)
Dinsdag 15 juli 2008
Let's Get Away From It All
Let's Get Away From It All
Composer(s): Tom Adair - Matt Dennis
First release by: Tommy Dorsey & his Orch. & the Pied Pipers - 1941
Covered by multiple other artists
Let's take a boat to Bermuda
Let's take a plane to St. Paul
Let's grab a kayak to Quincy or Nyack
Let's get away from it all
Let's take a trip in a trailer
No need to come back at all
Let's take a powder to Boston for chowder
Let's get away from it all
We'll travel 'round from town to town
We'll visit ev'ry state
I'll repeat "I love you, sweet"
In all the forty-eight
Let's go again to Niag'ra
This time we'll peek at the Fall
Let's leave our hut, dear
Get out of our rut, dear
Let's get away from it all
We'll travel 'round from town to town
We'll visit ev'ry state
And I'll repeat that "I love you, sweet"
In all the forty-eight
Let's go again to Niag'ra
This time we'll dig the Fall
Let's leave our hut, dear
Get out of our rut, dear
Let's get away from it all
Dinsdag 15 juli 2008
Brivido Felino
Brivido Felino
Composer(s): Paolo Audino; Stefano Cenci
Performer(s): Mina & Adriano Celentano
Ormai avevo pensato
ho voglia solo io di te
invece sento il profumo
che hai messo su stasera per me
Provo a fare finta che
ti resisto un po'
ma in fondo poi perché
qui è già calda l'atmosfera
sto con te stasera ci sto
Con un brivido felino sento che mi vuoi
la luce del camino spande su di noi
hai la voce che ti frema stringi le mie mani
mi chiami, mi chiami piano lo so
ora che anche tu mi vuoi
Adesso mentre mi baci
capisco che mi piaci perché
(quel mistero dentro te)
è affascinante davvero
sei quella che speravo per me
Provo a fare finta che
ti resisto ma
il gioco mi delude
e già calda l'atmosfera
da te vorrei stasera di più
Con un brivido felino sento che mi vuoi
il fuoco del camino brucia insieme a noi
hai la voce che ti frema
stringi le mie mani mi ami, mi ami
Con un brivido felino ora che ti dai
ti sento travolgente vero come sei
ho l'impulso di fermarti ma tanto non potrei
se ti muovi, ti muovi, come tu sai
e ti sento che mi vuoi
Brivido felino, brivido felino, brivido felino
brivido felino
Con un brivido felino, io potrei morire da
adesso per come mi prendi e ti dai
e ti sento che mi vuoi
Maandag 14 juli 2008
Let's Jump The Broomstick
Let’s Jump The Broomstick
Composer(s): Charles Robins
Performer(s): Brenda Lee
and multiple other artists
Well, come-a little baby let's jump the broomstick
Come on let's tie a knot
Come-a little baby let's jump the broomstick
Come on let's tie a knot
Father don't like it, my brother don't like it
My sister don't like it, my mother don't like it
Come-a little baby let's jump the broomstick
Come on let's tie a knot
Goin' to Alabama back from Texarkana
Goin' all round the world
I'm goin' to Alabama back from Texarkana
Goin' all round the world
My father don't like it, my brother don't like it
My sister don't like it, my mother don't like it
Come-a little baby let's jump the broomstick
Come on let's tie a knot
Come-a little baby, don't-a mean-a maybe
Let's settle down
Come-a little baby, don't-a mean-a maybe
Let's settle down
My father don't like it, my brother don't like it
My sister don't like it, my mother don't like it
Come-a little baby let's jump the broomstick
Come on let's tie a knot
Well-a come-a little baby let's jump the broomstick
Come on let's tie a knot
Come-a little baby let's jump the broomstick
Come on let's tie a knot
My father don't like it, my brother don't like it
My sister don't like it, my mother don't like it
Come-a little baby let's jump the broomstick
Come on let's tie a knot
I'm goin' to Alabama back from Texarkana
Goin' all round the world
I'm goin' to Alabama back from Texarkana
Goin' all round the world
My father don't like it, my brother don't like it
My sister don't like it, my mother don't like it
Come-a little baby let's jump the broomstick
Come on let's tie a knot
Maandag 14 juli 2008
Let's Forget About The Stars
Let's Forget About The Stars
Composer(s): A.L. Owens - Christian Arnold - David Martin - Geoff Morrow
Performer(s): Elvis Presley
If you let the stars keep telling you
Who to love and not to love
You may never find contentment for your heart
You could go unloved forever and darling that means never
Surrender to love, let's forget about the stars
You say that stars have promised you true love ten thousand times
But here you are with a broken heart and mind
I can tell you want to love me from the beating in your heart
Surrender to love, let's forget about the stars
Let's forget about the stars, come follow me my dove
To a world just like the world that you've been dreaming of
Let's not wait too long for something might go wrong
Surrender to love, let's forget about the stars
Let's forget about the stars
Let's forget about the stars
Let's forget about the stars
Maandag 14 juli 2008
Brivido Caldo
Brivido Caldo
Composer(s): Piero Cassano; G. Golzi
Performer(s): Matia Bazar
Attraversata da un brivido caldo
per sogni folli più grandi di me
vivendo mille emozioni in contrasto
riparto da te
Tra mille note di vita raccolte
e gli orizzonti che non vedo più
confusamente tra immagini stanche
riaffiori anche tu
Sai ti penso tanto
lo sai ti sento tanto... e di più
ti ho aspettato tanto
sai ti penso tanto
Viaggia la mente nei ricordi miei
viaggia avvolta nella nostalgia di te
resta la dolce tenerezza che
lascia il tempo che si ferma in te
Occhi per orizzonti nei tramonti che vorrei
mani che stringono su cuori stanchi e fragili
tempo che non invecchia una fotografia
da allora resta il vuoto dentro
In quelle nebbie disperse dal vento
tra labirinti di cristalli blu
appare il viso di chi se ne è andato
e non torna più
Sai ti penso tanto
lo sai ti sento tanto...
Viaggia la mente nei ricordi miei
viaggia, viaggia avvolta nella nostalgia di te
come la luce di un diamante pazzo che
resta per sempre, per sempre dentro agli occhi
negli orizzonti e nei tramonti che vorrei
tempo che non invecchia una fotografia
da sempre storie... di gente uguale a noi...
Zondag 13 juli 2008
Let's Hear It For The Boy
Let's Hear It For The Boy
Composer(s): Dean Pitchford - Tom Snow
Performer(s): Deniece Williams
My baby, he don't talk sweet, he ain't got much to say
But he loves me, loves me, loves me, I know that he loves me anyway
And maybe he don't dress fine but I don't really mind
'Cause every time he pulls me near I just wanna cheer
Let's hear it for the boy, let's give the boy a hand
Let's hear it for my baby, you know you gotta understand, oh oh oh
Maybe he's no Romeo but he's my loving one-man show, oh woh woh woh
Let's hear it for the boy
My baby may not be rich, he's watching every dime
But he loves me, loves me, loves me, we always have a real good time
And maybe he sings off-key but that's alright by me, yeah
'Cause what he does, he does so well, makes me wanna yell
Let's hear it for the boy, ah, let's give the boy a hand
Let's hear it for my baby, you know you gotta understand, oh oh oh
Maybe he's no Romeo but he's my loving one-man show, oh woh woh woh
Let's hear it for the boy
Ooh
Ooh ooh ooh, yeah
'Cause every time he pulls me near I just wanna cheer
Let's hear it for the boy, ah, let's give the boy a hand
Let's hear it for my baby, you know you gotta understand
Yeah yeah yeah yeah, woh oh oh
Maybe he's no Romeo but he's my loving one-man show, oh woh woh woh
Let's hear it for the boy (let's hear it for the boy)
Let's hear it for my man (let's hear it for my baby)
Let's hear it for my man (let's hear it for the boy)
(Let's hear it for my baby)
(Let's hear it for the boy)
Let's hear it for my man (let's hear it for my baby), yeah yeah yeah hey
(Let's hear it for the boy)
Put your hands together (let's hear it for my baby)
Ooh ooh ooh ooh (let's hear it for the boy)
Woh, let's hear it for my boy (let's hear it for my baby)
Let's hear it for my man (let's hear it for the boy)
Ooh-ooh ooh-ooh ooh ooh-ooh (let's hear it for my baby)
Let's hear it for my man, yeah
Zondag 13 juli 2008
Let's Fall In Love
Let's Fall In Love
((French Version: Est-Ce Par Hasard (by Dave) - 1977))
Composer(s): Harold Arlen - Ted Koehler
First performance: Art Jarrett - 1933
Covered by multiple other artists
Let's fall in love
Why shouldn't we fall in love?
Our hearts are made of it
Let's take a chance
Why be afraid of it?
Let's close our eyes
And make our own paradise
Little we know of it
Still we can try
To make a go of it
We might have been meant for each other
To be or not to be, let our hearts discover
Let's fall in love
Why shouldn't we fall in love?
Now is the time for it
While we are young
Let's fall in love
We might have been meant for each other
To be or not to be, let our hearts discover
Let's fall in love
Why shouldn't we fall in love?
Now is the time for it
While we are young
Let's fall in love
Zondag 13 juli 2008
Britta
Britta
Composer(s): Evert Taube
Performer(s): Evert Taube
Ja, det brevet, den som skrev det, hon har vilat i min famn
Det var Britta (jag nämner inte något efternamn)
Det kan kvitta, skriver Britta, om jag vänta får ett år
när jag vet att ditt hjärta för mig slår
Du som sovit i halm och som vaknat i kvalm
Och som sjunger i soluppgången krigarn's morgonpsalm
där i ledet du går, där du spejande står
tänk på Britta som snart du kyssa får
Hör soldaterna, kamraterna med knatter och med knall
hör, på fält och i skogar tonar truppens glada trall
Över krigarna på stigarna och lottorna i byn
stiger flyget som örnar emot skyn
Du som sovit i halm och som vaknat i kvalm
Och som sjunger i soluppgången krigarn's morgonpsalm
där i ledet du går, där du spejande står
tänk på Britta som snart du kyssa får
Kan du hitta, skriver Britta, en som har dig mera kär?
Kan du drömma hur ömma mina känslor för dig är?
Som den bölja du ser skölja stranden av vårt fria land
smyger Britta sig mjukt uti din famn
Du som sovit i halm och som vaknat i kvalm
Och som sjunger i soluppgången krigarn's morgonpsalm
där i ledet du går, där du spejande står
tänk på Britta som snart du kyssa får
Zaterdag 12 juli 2008
Let's Have Another One
Let's Have Another One
Composer(s): Hughie Prince - Don Raye
Performer(s): The Andrews Sisters
and multiple other artists
Down on the corner
There's a place we meet each night
There's singing and dancing
Lots of romancing
Everyone's happy
Only good fellows there
When we get together
Say, the weather's always fair
Hail, hail, hail the gang's all here
Hail, hail, hail, good health, good cheer
Sing and laugh your cares away
And when it's time to say goodnight
Someone is bound to say
Let's have another one
Before you leave me
We're having so much fun
Parting will grieve me
There goes the band again
Everything's right
Dancing is so much fun
Let's have another one
Before we say goodnight
Down on the corner
There's a place we meet each night
There's singing and shouting and dancing
And Lots of romancing
Everyone's so happy
Only very good fellows there
When we get together
Say the weather's always fair
Hail, hail, hail, hail, the good old gang's is here
Let's all hail
Hail, hail, very good health and very good cheer
We can sing and dance
Sing and dance your cares away
And when it's time to say goodnight
Someone is bound to say
Dang, dang
Dang, dang
Dang, dang, da-da-la-da-day-day
Let's you and I have another one
Let's have another before we say goodnight
Goodnight, sweetheart
Parting can be so much fun
Let's you and I have another one
Before we can say goodnight
Goodnight ladies, goodnight fellows
Goodnight everyone
We've all had a lot of fun
Goodnight, goodnight
Goodnight good fellows
Till we meet again
We, we can have another dance
Zaterdag 12 juli 2008
Let's Face The Music And Dance
Let's Face The Music And Dance
((French Version: Laisse Faire La Musique Et Danse (by Julien Clerc) - 2003))
Composer(s): Irving Berlin
First performance: Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers - 1936
Covered by multiple other artists
There may be trouble ahead
But while there's music and moonlight
And love and romance
Let's face the music and dance
Before the fiddlers have fled
Before they ask us to pay the bill
And while we still have that chance
Let's face the music and dance
Soon, we'll be without the moon
Humming a different tune, and then
There may be teardrops to shed
So while there's music and moonlight
And love and romance
Let's face the music and dance
Zaterdag 12 juli 2008
British Grenadier Guards
British Grenadier Guards
(Traditional)
Some talk of Alexander, and some of Hercules
Of Hector and Lysander, and such great names as these
But of all the world’s great heroes
There’s none that can compare
With a tow, row row row, row row row
To the British Grenadiers
None of these ancient heroes ne’er saw a cannon ball
Nor knew the force of powder to slay their foes with all
But our brave boys do know it and banish all their fears
Sing tow, row row row, row row row
For the British Grenadiers
When e’er we are commanded to storm the palisades
Our leaders march with fuses, and we with hand grenades
We throw them from the glacis about the enemies’ ears
Sing tow, row row row, row row row
For the British Grenadiers
And when the siege is over, we to the town repair
The townsmen cry ‘Hurrah, boys, here comes a Grenadier’
Here come the Grenadiers, my boys, who know no doubts or fears
Sing tow, row row row, row row row
For the British Grenadiers
So let us fill a bumper, and drink a health to those
Who carry caps and pouches, and wear the louped clothes
May they and their commanders live happy all their years
Sing tow, row row row, row row row
For the British Grenadiers
Zaterdag 12 juli 2008
Britches
Britches
Composer(s): Sid Wayne; Sherman Edwards
Performer(s): Elvis Presley
Beware of a gal in britches
Yo-di-o-di-o
Never trust no gal in britches
No-di-o-di-o
If you had a sense of this here horse
You would have known it by now of course
Who wears the britches is the boss
That's a gal, that's a gal in britches
Don't mess with a gal in britches
Yo-di-o-di-o
No feminine gal wears britches
No-di-o-di-o
She'll beg you to come to the country dance
You ride twenty miles for the big romance
She shows up in her brother's pants
What'd you expect from a girl in britches
Yo-di-o-di-o-i-ay, It's none of my misfortune
Yo-di-o-di-o-di-ay, Just
thought you'd like to know
Don't marry no gal in britches
Yo-di-o-di-o
You'll never know which is which's
No-di-o-di-o
She'll put a halter through your nose
Have you cooking and washing clothes
While she goes chasing them buffaloes
Bet your boots, that's a gal in britches
Vrijdag 11 juli 2008
Let's Have Another Cup O' Coffee
Let's Have Another Cup O' Coffee
Composer(s): Irving Berlin
First performance/First recording by:
J. Harold Murray & Katherine Carrington - 1932/Fred Waring & His Pennsylvanians - 1932
and multiple other artists
Why worry when skies are gray
Why should we complain
Let's laugh at the cloudy day
Let's sing in the rain
Songwriters say the storm quickly passes
That's their philosophy
They see the world through rose-colored glasses
Why shouldn't we?
Just around the corner
There's a rainbow in the sky
So let's have another cup o' coffee
And let's have another piece o' pie!
Trouble's just a bubble
And the clouds will soon roll by
So let's have another cup o' coffee
And let's have another piece o' pie
Let a smile be your umbrella
For it's just an April show'r
Even John D. Rockefeller
Is looking for the silver lining
Mister Herbert Hoover
Says that now's the time to buy
So let's have another cup o' coffee
And let's have another piece o' pie!
[Alternate Lines:]
Things that really matter
Are the things that gold can't buy
Vrijdag 11 juli 2008
Laisse Faire La Musique Et Danse
Laisse Faire La Musique Et Danse
((Adapted from: Let's Face The Music And Dance (by Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers) - 1936))
Composer(s): Irving Berlin - Maxime Le Forestier
Performer(s): Julien Clerc - 2003
Quand c'est tout gris dans ta tête
Choisi les pôles où tu veux te poser
Sans défense
Laisse faire la musique et danse
Avant la fin de la fête
Avant que les musiciens ne filent
Ou changent de style
Prends ta chance
Laisse faire la musique et danse
Toutes les pauvres peines d'amour
Il faudrait plus d'un tour d'enfer
Pour que tes chagrins s'arrêtent
Choisi les pôles où tu veux te poser
sans défense
Laisse faire la musique et danse
Laisse faire la musique et danse
Avant que les musiciens ne filent
Ou changent de style
Laisse faire la musique et danse
Toutes les pauvres peines d'amour
Il faudrait plus d'un tour d'enfer
Pour que tes chagrins s'arrêtent
Choisi les pôles où tu veux te poser
sans défense
Laisse faire la musique et danse
Vrijdag 11 juli 2008
Bristol Stomp
Bristol Stomp
Composer(s): Kal Mann; Dave Appell
Performer(s): The Dovells
and various other artists
Chorus:
The kids in Bristol are sharp as a pistol
When they do the Bristol Stomp
Really somethin when they join in jumpin
When they do the Bristol Stomp
Whoa whoa they start spinnin every Friday night
They dance the greatest and they do it right
Well it´s the latest it´s the greatest sight to see
Chorus
(Whoa, oh, oh , ah-ah-ah, oh)
Whoa whoa it started in Bristol at a dee jay hop
They hollered and whistled never wanted to stop
We pony and twisted and we rocked with Daddy G
Chorus
(Duh-duh-doo)
It´s got that groovy beat
That makes you stomp your feet
Come along and try
Gonna feel fine
And once you dance with me
You´ll fall in love you see
The Bristol Stomp will make you mine
All mine
The stars are spinnin every Friday night
They dance the greatest if they do it right
But it´s the latest it´s the greatest sight to see
Chorus
It started in Bristol at a dee jay hop
They hollered and whistled
Never wanted to stop
We pony and twisted
And we rocked with Daddy G
Chorus
Feel so fine
Oh, got to say, please, mine
I´m talkin (when they do the Bristol Stomp)
Mine baby (kids in Bristol...)
Donderdag 10 juli 2008
Let's Do It, Let's Fall In Love
Let's Do It, Let's Fall In Love
Composer(s): Cole Porter
First performance/First release by: Irene Bordoni & Arthur Margetson - 1929/Leslie Hutchinson - 1929
Covered by multiple other artists
Birds do it, bees do it
Even educated fleas do it
Let's do it, let's fall in love
In Spain the best upper sets do it
Lithuanians and Letts do it
Let's do it, let's fall in love
The Dutch in old Amsterdam do it
Not to mention the Finns
Folks in Siam do it
Think of Siamese twins
Some Argentines, without means do it
People say in Boston even beans do it
Let's do it, let's fall in love
Romantic sponges they say do it
Oysters down in Oyster Bay do it
Let's do it, let's fall in love
Cold Cape Cod clams, 'gainst their wish, do it
Even lazy jellyfish do it
Let's do it, let's fall in love
Electric eels, I might add, do it
Though it shocks 'em I know
Why ask if shad do it
Waiter, bring me shadroe
In shallow shoals, English soles do it
Goldfish in the privacy of bowls do it
Let's do it, let's fall in love
Donderdag 10 juli 2008
Brisbane Ladies
