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National Donor Day

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My late husband, Dennis, was on the local registry list for a donor kidney but succumbed to End Stage Renal [image error]Disease last spring before a match was found. In the United States, more than 120,000 people are waiting for a life-saving organ donation.

Observed each year on February 14th, National Donor Day (also known as  National Organ Donor Day) is a day to increase awareness about organ donation and the lives that can be saved.

Give the gift of Life.

The observance focuses on five different types of donations:  Organs – Tissues – Marrow – Platelets – Blood.  Many nonprofit health organizations sponsor blood and marrow drives and organ/tissue sign-ups across the nation. Approximately every two seconds, there is someone in the U.S. who needs blood, which translates to the need for over 41,000 daily donations.

Each type of donation saves lives. While blood, platelets, tissue, marrow, and some organs may be donated at any time, most organs are donated upon death. A single donor can save up to 8 lives and help more than 75 people.

Look into becoming a donor.  Visit donatelifenw.org and organdonor.gov for more information on organ donation.

 

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Song Lyric Sunday | “We Are the World” – USA for Africa

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Song Lyric Sunday was created by Helen Vahdati from This Thing Called Life One Word at a Time and author Jim Adams from A Unique Title For Me is our current guest host. For complete rules or to join in the fun, click here.

The theme for Song Lyric Sunday this week is “I/Me/Them/Us/You/We.”

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The first song I thought of for this week’s prompt was We Are Family by Sister Sledge. Having five sisters (two older, three younger), it’s been our sibling theme song since its release in 1979.

But then, I realized my second favorite We song had just passed a milestone too. We Are the World, a charity single originally recorded by the supergroup, USA for Africa, turned thirty-five last month.

Following Band Aid’s 1984 Do They Know It’s Christmas? project in the UK, an idea for the creation of an American benefit single for African famine relief came from activist Harry Belafonte, who, along with fundraiser Ken Kragen, was instrumental in bringing the vision to reality. Several musicians were contacted by the pair, before Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie were assigned the task of writing the song. The duo completed the writing of We Are the World seven weeks after the release of Do They Know It’s Christmas?, and one night before the song’s first recording session, on January 21, 1985. The historic event brought together some of the most famous artists in the music industry at the time.

The song was released on March 7, 1985, as the first single from the album. A worldwide commercial success, topping music charts throughout the world and becoming the fastest-selling American pop single in history. The first ever single to be certified multi-platinum, We Are the World received a Quadruple Platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America.

In all, more than 45 of America’s top musicians participated in the recording, and another 50 had to be turned away. Upon entering the recording studio, the musicians were greeted by a sign pinned to the door which read, “Please check your egos at the door.” They were also greeted by Stevie Wonder, who proclaimed that if the recording was not completed in one take, he and Ray Charles, two blind men, would drive everybody home.

FUN FACTS

Awarded numerous honors—including three Grammy Awards, one American Music Award, and a People’s Choice Award—the song was promoted with a critically received music video, a home video, a special edition magazine, a simulcast, and several books, posters, and shirts. The promotion and merchandise aided the success of We Are the World and raised over $63 million (equivalent to $147 million today) for humanitarian aid in Africa and the US.
 The song became the first single since The Beatles’ Let It Be to enter Billboard‘s Top 5 within two weeks of release.
Outside of the US, the single reached number one in Australia, France, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, The Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. The song peaked at number 2 in only two countries: Germany and Austria.
Elias Kifle Maraim Beyene, a survivor from Ethiopia being asked about his memory of Michael Jackson after his death remembers:

I won’t ever forget Michael Jackson because his contribution to the song We are the World had a very significant effect on my life. I am 50 now but 25 years ago I was living in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, which at that time was suffering from a long drought and famine. It was a terrible situation. Lots of people became sick and many more died. Around one million people in all were killed by the famine. In 1984 Michael Jackson, along with a number of other leading musicians, made the song We are the World to raise money for Africa. We received a lot of aid from the world and I was one of those who directly benefited from it. The wheat flour that was distributed to the famine victims was different to the usual cereal we bought at the market. We baked a special bread from it. The local people named the bread after the great artist and it became known as Michael Bread.

USA for Africa participants:

Conductor


 • Quincy Jones






Soloists (in order of appearance)


 • Lionel Richie


 • Stevie Wonder


 • Paul Simon


 • Kenny Rogers


 • James Ingram


 • Tina Turner


 • Billy Joel


 • Michael Jackson


 • Diana Ross


 • Dionne Warwick


 • Willie Nelson


 • Al Jarreau


 • Bruce Springsteen


 • Kenny Loggins


 • Steve Perry


 • Daryl Hall


 • Huey Lewis


 • Cyndi Lauper


 • Kim Carnes


 • Bob Dylan


 • Ray Charles






Chorus (alphabetically)


 • Dan Aykroyd


 • Harry Belafonte


 • Lindsey Buckingham


 • Mario Cipollina


 • Johnny Colla


 • Sheila E.


 • Bob Geldof


 • Bill Gibson


 • Chris Hayes


 • Sean Hopper


 • Jackie Jackson


 • La Toya Jackson


 • Marlon Jackson


 • Randy Jackson


 • Tito Jackson


 • Waylon Jennings


 • Bette Midler


 • John Oates


 • Jeffrey Osborne


 • The Pointer Sisters


 • Smokey Robinson






Instrument players


 • John Barnes – keyboards & arrangement


 • David Paich – synthesizers


 • Michael Boddicker – synthesizers, programming


 • Paulinho da Costa – percussion


 • Louis Johnson – synth bass


 • Michael Omartian – keyboards


 • Greg Phillinganes – keyboards


 • John Robinson – drums

Enjoy!

See my Song Lyric Sunday selection for Nesie’s Place!

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Disclaimer: I have no copyrights to the song and/or video and/or hyperlinks to songs and/or videos and/or gifs above. No copyright infringement intended.





We Are the World

by USA for Africa

Songwriters: Michael Jackson / Lionel Richie

 

There comes a time

When we heed a certain call

When the world must come together as one

There are people dying

Oh, and it’s time to lend a hand to life

The greatest gift of all
We can’t go on

Pretending day-by-day

That someone, somewhere soon make a change

We’re all a part of God’s great big family

And the truth, you know, love is all we need
We are the world

We are the children

We are the ones who make a brighter day, so let’s start giving

There’s a choice we’re making

We’re saving our own lives

It’s true we’ll make a better day, just you and me
Oh, send them your heart

So they know that someone cares

And their lives will be stronger and free

As God has shown us by turning stones to bread

And so we all must lend a helping hand
We are the world

We are the children

We are the ones who make a brighter day, so let’s start giving

Oh, there’s a choice we’re making

We’re saving our own lives

It’s true we’ll make a better day, just you and me
When you’re down and out, there seems no hope at all

But if you just believe there’s no way we can fall

Well, well, well, well let us realize

Oh, that a change can only come

When we stand together as one, yeah, yeah, yeah
We are the world

We are the children

We are the ones who make a brighter day, so let’s start giving

There’s a choice we’re making

We’re saving our own lives

It’s true we’ll make a better day, just you and me
We are the world

We are the children

We are the ones who make a brighter day, so let’s start giving

There’s a choice we’re making

We’re saving our own lives

It’s true we’ll make a better day, just you and mee
We are the world (are the world)

We are the children (are the children)

We are the ones who’ll make a brighter day, so let’s start giving (so let’s start giving)

There is a choice we’re making

We’re saving our own lives

It’s true we’ll make a better day, just you and me
Oh, let me hear you!
We are the world (we are the world)

We are the children (said we are the children)

We are the ones who’ll make a brighter day so let start giving (so let’s start giving)
There’s a choice we’re making

We’re saving our own lives

It’s true we’ll make a better day, just you and me, come on now, let me hear you
We are the world (we are the world)

We are the children (we are the children)

We are the ones who’ll make a brighter day so let’s start giving (so let’s start giving)

There’s a choice we’re making

We’re saving our own lives

It’s true we’ll make a better day, just you and me, yeah
We are the world (we are the world)

We are the children (we are the children)

We are the ones who’ll make a brighter day so let’s start giving (so let’s start giving)
There’s a choice we’re making

And we’re saving our own lives

It’s true we’ll make a better day, just you and me
We are the world (are the world)

We are the children (are the children)

We are the ones who’ll make a brighter day so let’s start giving (so let’s start giving)
There’s a choice we’re making

We’re saving our own lives

It’s true we’ll make a better day, just you and me
We are the world, we are the world (are the world)

We are the children, yes sir (are the children)

We are the ones that make a brighter day so let’s start giving (so let’s start giving)
There’s a choice we’re making

We’re saving our own lives

It’s true we’ll make a better day, just you and me, ooh-hoo!
We are the world (dear God) (are the world)

We are the children (are the children)

We are the ones that make a brighter day so let’s start giving (all right, can you hear what I’m saying?)

There’s a choice we’re making, we’re saving our own lives

 

 

Compiled from Google, Lyric Find, Genius Lyrics, Wikipedia, and Songfacts.com

Song Lyric Sunday | “Cutie Pie” – One Way

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Song Lyric Sunday was created by Helen Vahdati from This Thing Called Life One Word at a Time and author Jim Adams from A Unique Title For Me is our current guest host. For complete rules or to join in the fun, click .

The theme for Song Lyric Sunday this week is “Babe/Cutie/Doll/Honey/Sweetie.”

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The driving beat and horn section in the beginning of this song tells you 1) it’s 80s music and, 2) it’s time to dance!

Detroit funk band, One Way, had only enjoyed modest success until the second release from their 1982 album, Who’s Foolin’ Who, Cutie Pie. A dance club favorite, the song soared to #4 on the US Billboard R&B Singles chart and #29 on the US Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play Singles chart. It peaked at #61 on the pop chart and would be the band’s only appearance on the Billboard Hot 100, leaving One Way to join the list of one-hit wonders.

 

FUN FACTS

Though One Way disbanded and reformed several times over the years without another hit song, in 2019, after a 31-year hiatus and now called One Way featuring Al Hudson, they  released their 12th album, New Old School.
Lead vocalist, Alicia Myers, left One Way before the release of their second album and went on to a moderately successful solo R&B career in the early 1980s.
Alicia’s older brother, Jackie Myers, also a musician, would later become part of the beach band, Chairman of the Board.
 Alicia is a survivor of childhood tuberculosis. She later survived breast cancer in 1998 and has since become an advocate for the disease.

Enjoy!

See my Song Lyric Sunday selection for Nesie’s Place!

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Disclaimer: I have no copyrights to the song and/or video and/or hyperlinks to songs and/or videos and/or gifs above. No copyright infringement intended.





Cutie Pie

by One Way

Songwriters: Albert Vernon Hudson / Dave Jr. Roberson / Glenda Joyce Hudson / Gregory Allen Greene / Johnathon Meadows / Terry Wayne Morgan / Theodore Dudley

 

Cutie pie

You’re the reason why

I love you so

I don’t want you to go
You’re the girl who makes me feel so good

Cutie pie
Cutie pie

You brighten up my day

It’s impossible

For me to stay away
Lately hazy

Girl, I’m goin’ ‘round

I want you to know

How much I love you so
Lately hazy

Girl, I’m goin’ ‘round

Want you to see

How much you mean to me
You’re the girl who makes me feel so good

Cutie pie

Nothin’ but a cutie pie
Cutie pie

You really pick me up

Till I can’t

Hardly get enough
You’re the girl who makes me feel so good

Cutie pie
Cutie pie

You’re the reason why

I’m full of joy

Since you came into my life
You’re the girl who makes me feel so good

Cutie pie
Lately hazy

Girl, I’m goin’ ‘round

I want you to know

How much I love you so


Lately hazy

Girl, I’m goin’ ‘round

Want you to see

How much you mean to me
You’re the girl who makes me feel so good

Cutie pie
You’re the girl who makes me feel so good

Cutie pie

Nothin’ but a cutie pie

Who makes me feel so good

You’re my cutie pie
You’re the girl who makes me feel so good

Cutie pie
You’re nothin’ but a cutie pie

Who makes me feel so good

You’re my cutie pie
You’re the girl who makes me feel good

Cutie pie
You’re the girl who makes me feel so good

Cutie pie
You’re the girl who makes me feel good

Cutie pie

 

 

Compiled from Google, Lyric Find, Genius Lyrics, Wikipedia, and Songfacts.com

Song Lyric Sunday | “If I Never Knew You” – Jon Secada & Shanice

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Song Lyric Sunday was created by Helen Vahdati from This Thing Called Life One Word at a Time and author Jim Adams from A Unique Title For Me is our current guest host. For complete rules or to join in the fun, click here.

The theme for Song Lyric Sunday this week is “Duets.”

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If I Never Knew You is sang by Jon Secada and Shanice over the end credits of  Disney’s 1995 animated feature film, Pocahontas. It was the second single released from the movie soundtrack after Vanessa Williams’ pop and R&B rendition of the Academy Award-winning Colors of the Wind.

The song was originally developed for the prison scene where Pocahontas visits Captain John Smith before he is sentenced to death for the alleged murder of Kocoum, Chief Powhatan’s warrior whom Pocahontas was supposed to marry. Composer Alan Menken decided it had to be cut because he felt that it slowed the pace of the movie and too closely followed another song.

If I Never Knew You charted on the U.S. Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles and U.S. Billboard Bubbling Under R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, reaching #8 and #24, respectively. It also reached #51 on UK charts.

FUN FACTS

Performed by Mel Gibson (Captain Smith) and Judy Kuhn (singing voice of Pocahontas), If I Never Knew You was added to the tenth anniversary edition of Pocahontas in 2005, fully animated and integrated as a viewer option on the DVD.
In 2001, If I Never Knew You was covered by Michael Crawford and Sherie Rene Scott for The Disney Album.
Jon Secada has written songs for Gloria Estefan, Ricky Martin, and Jennifer Lopez. He has toured with Luciano Pavarotti and recorded duets with Jim Brickman, Olivia Newton John, and Frank Sinatra, as well as winning two Grammys for his own music releases.
 Also an actress, Shanice became the first black performer to star in the role of Eponine in the musical Les Misérables on Broadway in 1997.  She also starred in the made-for-TV movie One Special Moment, an adaptation of Brenda Jackson’s 1998 novel of the same name. Shanice and her husband of twenty years, actor/comedian Flex, starred in their own reality show Flex & Shanice, for three seasons on OWN.

Filmed in New York City, the music video features Shanice and Secada performing the song with clips of Pocahontas being projected on buildings behind them.

I could listen to this song on endless repeat. And, maybe I have!

Song Lyric Sunday | “Genius of Love” – Tom Tom Club

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Song Lyric Sunday was created by Helen Vahdati from This Thing Called Life One Word at a Time and author Jim Adams from A Unique Title For Me is our current guest host. For complete rules or to join in the fun, click here.

The theme for Song Lyric Sunday this week is “Written or sung by Tom/Dick/Harry or including one of these names in the lyrics.”

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Although she was responsible for writing the bassline and intended to play it on record, Genius of Love co-writer and lead singer, Tina Weymouth, had to wake up the assistant engineer – he was asleep under the console – when her right arm seized up in a terrible cramp during the abbreviated 1981 recording session. “Chris (Frantz) was mad, but I really couldn’t play; my hand wouldn’t even close. So we did what we had to do. These things happen.”

Genius of Love became a commercial success and reached number one on the Billboard Disco Top 80 chart, number two on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard), and number thirty-one on the US Billboard Hot 100.

The lyrics and video imply that the singer is in jail although why she’s imprisoned is not explained. The singer tells her fellow inmates about her boyfriend whom she describes as the “genius of love”.

 

FUN FACTS

Genius of Love was the first song I danced to with my late husband, Dennis.
The lyrics pay tribute to many notable African-American musicians and singers, including George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Smokey Robinson, Bob Marley, Sly and Robbie, Kurtis Blow, Hamilton Bohannon, and James Brown.
 In May 2016, a version of the song by Tinashe was used in a television advertising campaign for Target Corporation.
 Frank Zappa, in an interview with MTV, mentioned that the music video was his favorite at the time, due to it being “animated and clever.

Enjoy!

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Disclaimer: I have no copyrights to the song and/or video and/or hyperlinks to songs and/or videos and/or gifs above. No copyright infringement intended.





Genius of Love

by Tom Tom Club

Songwriters: Tina Weymouth / Christopher Frantz / Adrian Belew / Steven J.C. Stanley












What you gonna do when you get out of jail?

I’m gonna have some fun

What do you consider fun?

Fun, natural fun
I’m in heaven

With my boyfriend, my laughing boyfriend

There’s no beginning and there is no end

Time isn’t present in that dimension

He’ll take my arm

When we’re walkin’, rolling and rocking

It’s one time I’m glad I’m not a man

Feels like I’m dreaming, but I’m not sleeping
I’m in heaven

With the maven of funk mutation

Clinton’s musicians such as Bootsy Collins

Raise expectations to a new intention

No one can sing

Quite like Smokey, Smokey Robinson

Wailin’ and skankin’ to Bob Marley

Reggae’s expanding with Sly and Robbie
Oops! Your mama said uh

Oops! Your mama said uh

Oops! Your mama said uh

Oops! Your mama
All the weekend

Boyfriend was missing

I surely miss him

The way he’d hold me in his warm arms

We went insane when we took cocaine
“Bohannon, Bohannon, Bohannon, Bohannon”

“Bohannon, Bohannon, Bohannon, Bohannon”
Stepping in a rhythm to a Kurtis Blow

Who needs to think when your feet just go?

With a hippie-the-hip and a hippie-the-hop

Who needs to think when your feet just go

“Bohannon, Bohannon, Bohannon, Bohannon”

Who needs to think when your feet just go

“Bohannon, Bohannon, Bohannon, Bohannon”

James Brown, James Brown

James Brown, James Brown
If you see him

Please remind him, unhappy boyfriend

Well he’s the genius of love

He’s got a greater depth of feeling

Well he’s the genius of love

He’s so deep


































Compiled from Google, Lyric Find, Genius Lyrics, Wikipedia, and Songfacts.com

Song Lyric Sunday | “This Step Alone” – Elliott Yamin

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Song Lyric Sunday was created by Helen Vahdati from This Thing Called Life One Word at a Time and author Jim Adams from A Unique Title For Me is our current guest host. For complete rules or to join in the fun, click here.

The theme for Song Lyric Sunday this week is “Bottom/End/Middle/Side/Top.”

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Coming in third in American Idol’s season 5 didn’t stop Elliott Yamin from climbing the charts after leaving the talent variety show.

Less than a year later, Yamin’s 2007 self-titled debut album–later renamed Wait For You–debuted at number one on the Billboard Independent Albums, number three on the Billboard 200, and included the Top Twenty single, Wait For You.

My selection is from Elliott’s second album, the 2009 Fight for Love.

This Step Alone is the eleventh of the album’s dozen songs, and while not released as a single, it still garners consistent airplay on adult radio stations.

The song is about a couple whose paths go in two different directions. He tried to stay hopeful but always knew she’d walk away. Still, it doesn’t keep him from wanting her by his side.

FUN FACTS

On May 16, 2007, Yamin performed his hit single, Wait for You, on the American Idol Season 6 Top 3 results show. The song jumped 60 spots on iTunes in a few hours as well as from 80 to 31 on the Billboard Hot 100. Following the performance, sales of his self-titled album increased, jumping 47 spots on the Billboard 200, from 67 to 20.
 Elliott’s celebrity in Japan has outshone his U.S. fandom since almost from the beginning of his solo career. All of his music receives special releases in Japan and he was named one of the Best 3 New Artists (International) by the 23rd Annual Japan Gold Disc Awards along with Leona Lewis and Flo Rida.
Dropping out of high school in his sophomore year, Yamin later achieved a high school GED while working at Foot Locker (in their management program), a pharmacy, and as an on-air disc jockey for local R&B radio station WCDX/Power 92 FM, using the name E-Dub before auditioning for American Idol.
A history of ear infections as a child and eardrum replacement surgery at 13 left Yamin with 90% hearing loss in his right ear. He was diagnosed with Type I diabetes at the age of 16 and wears an insulin pump to help him manage his diabetes.

 

Enjoy!

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Disclaimer: I have no copyrights to the song and/or video and/or hyperlinks to songs and/or videos and/or gifs above. No copyright infringement intended.





This Step Alone

by Elliot Yamin

Songwriters: Elliott Yamin / Dapo Torimiro / Alexander James / J. Abraham










It’s takin’ it’s toll girl

This silence is cold

We’re stuck at a dead end

I’m startin’ to wonder

Did I say something wrong?
I keep askin’ the question

Will you turn around and come with me?

Or should I read the signs and leave and let you be?

Now I’m standin’ at this roadblock

And there’s no way around it

I’ve been waitin’ for your mind to change

Cause I feel so one sided
I saw us break

I watched us fall

It made no sense to me at all

You say that you will

But then you don’t

So I’m gonna take this step alone

In my heart of hearts

I always knew

This jump was way too far for you

You say that you will

But then you don’t

So I’m gonna take this step

I’m gonna take this step alone, alone


So give me a reason

Why you’re on the outside

When you should be in

When we’ll get together

So maybe it’s better

I walk alone but you’ll always be near
Now there’s no room for settlin’

I gotta do this, I need to

But this mirror I’m lookin’ in

There’s no reflection without you
Cause I saw us break

I watched us fall

It made no sense to me at all

You say that you will

But then you don’t

So I’m gonna take this step alone

In my heart of hearts

I always knew

This jump was way too far for you

You say that you will

But then you don’t

So I’m gonna take this step

I’m gonna take this step alone
The sanctity I found deep in your arms

It was a false alarm and it burns yeah it hurts

I lie awake at night and think of what we could have been if it worked

Then we chose to go our separate ways instead of meeting each other halfway

And if I had to choose girl, I’d have you by my side
I saw us break

I watched us fall

It made no sense to me at all

You say that you will

But then you don’t

So I’m gonna take this step alone

In my heart of hearts

I always knew

This jump was way too far for you

You say that you will

But then you don’t

So I’m gonna take this step

I’m gonna take this step alone, alone, alone

I’m gonna take this step alone, all alone


































Compiled from Google, Lyric Find, Genius Lyrics, Wikipedia, and Songfacts.com

Song Lyric Sunday | “John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt” – The Boogers

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Song Lyric Sunday was created by Helen Vahdati from This Thing Called Life One Word at a Time and author Jim Adams from A Unique Title For Me is our current guest host. For complete rules or to join in the fun, click here.

The theme for Song Lyric Sunday this week is “La.”

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I thought of this childhood jingle while my children were still here for the holidays. They dared me to use it. You’d think they’d know better by now. 

Song Lyric Sunday | “Miss You Like Crazy” – Natalie Cole

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Song Lyric Sunday was created by Helen Vahdati from This Thing Called Life One Word at a Time and author Jim Adams from A Unique Title For Me is our current guest host. For complete rules or to join in the fun, click here.

The theme for Song Lyric Sunday this week is “Crazy.”

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Many thanks to my daughter, Lindsey, visiting for the holidays with her husband, Erik, from Fort Riley, for choosing this selection for SLS.

Released March 15, 1989 from her album Good to Be Back, Miss You Like Crazy was a huge hit for Natalie Cole, becoming her fifth Top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, where the song peaked at number 7. The song also topped both the R&B and adult contemporary charts in 1989.

The song is a moving ballad in which the singer describes how she is feeling lonely and is longing for the one she misses “like crazy” (or, in other words, very much).

FUN FACTS

Miss You Like Crazy is ranked as the 67th biggest US hit of 1989.
 In the 1990s, Natalie sang traditional pop by her father, resulting in her biggest success, Unforgettable… with Love, which sold over seven million copies and won her seven Grammy Awards.
Cole’s debut album, Inseparable, had songs that reminded some listeners of Aretha Franklin. The media’s billing of Cole as the “new Aretha Franklin” started a rivalry between the two singers. The feud boiled over at the 1976 Grammy Awards when Cole beat Franklin in the Best Female R&B Vocal Performance category, a category which Franklin had won eight times before losing to Cole.
Natalie Cole recorded 23 studio albums, 2 live albums, received 21 Grammy nominations–winning 9–and sold more than 30 million records worldwide before her death from congestive heart failure at the age of 65 December 31, 2015.

The video is the official video for Miss You Like Crazy.

Enjoy and Happy New Year!

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Disclaimer: I have no copyrights to the song and/or video and/or hyperlinks to songs and/or videos and/or gifs above. No copyright infringement intended.


Miss You Like Crazy



by Natalie Cole





Songwriters: Preston W Glass / Gerry Goffin / Michael Masser

 

Even though it’s been so long, my love for you keeps going strong

I remember the things that we used to do

A kiss in the rain till the sun shined through

I tried to deny it, but I’m still in love with you
I miss you like crazy, I miss you like crazy

Ever since you went away, every hour of every day

I miss you like crazy, I miss you like crazy

No matter what I say or do, there’s just no getting over you
I can see the love shining in your eyes

And it comes as such a sweet surprise

It seems believing is worth the wait

So hold me and tell me it’s not too late

We’re so good together, we’re starting forever now


I miss you like crazy, I miss you like crazy

Ever since you went away, every hour of every day

I miss you like crazy, I miss you, baby

Love like ours will never end, just touch me and we’re there again
Just one night, and we’ll have to find the feelings like we used to do

Hold on tight, and whatever comes our way, we’re gonna make it through

It seems to believing is worth the wait

So hold me and tell me it’s not too late

We’re so good together, we’re starting forever now
And I miss you like crazy, I miss you like crazy

No matter what I say or do, there’s just no getting over you

And I miss you like crazy, I miss you like crazy

 

 

 

Compiled from Google, Lyric Find, Genius Lyrics, Wikipedia, and Songfacts.com

Song Lyric Sunday | “That’s Christmas to Me” – Pentatonix

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The theme for Song Lyric Sunday this week is “Christmas/Holiday/Snowman.”

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It wasn’t that long ago the a cappela group, Pentatonix, was posting YouTube videos all over the internet building a following–which included my three children. Of course, now they’re Grammy-Award winning, international artists whose concerts sell out even with tickets that cost up to $400!

The heartwarming song, That’s Christmas to Me, celebrates the spirit of a traditional holiday. The title track of Pentatonix’s second holiday release is the only original tune on the collection.

Pentatonix’s Kevin Olusola told Billboard magazine why they recorded an original song for the album. “We just wanted a song that focuses on the nostalgia of Christmas,” he said. “For us, we are gone so much on the road. The only time we get to spend with family is during Christmas. So we wanted to write a song that kind of focuses on that.”

That’s Christmas to Me peaked at number two on the Billboard 200 in 2014.  The album is also the highest charting holiday album by a group since 1962 and has sold 1,900,000 copies in the US as of December 2016.

 

FUN FACTS

Who wrote this song? Katy Lou Clark and Penny Lea Clark of the bluegrass trio, Purple Hulls, are given credit on some lyric sites, but the album credits group members Scott and Kevin.
The a cappella group from Arlington, Texas, first garnered attention on the third season of NBC’s The Sing-Off, where their talent for creating unique vocal arrangements of existing pop songs earned them the grand prize of $200,000 and a Sony recording contract.
Maldonado, Hoying, and Grassi were high school friends who formed a vocal trio to compete in a radio competition for the chance to meet the cast of Glee. Their rendition of Lady Gaga’s Telephone didn’t take the top prize, but it did earn them a following on YouTube.
Hoying met Kaplan at the University of South Carolina and persuaded him to join the group to help meet the five-person minimum for The Sing-Off. Olusola’s future band-mates found him on YouTube, where he was famous for “celloboxing” – beat-boxing and playing the cello simultaneously.
Their name is taken from the five-note Pentatonic scale, with an ‘x’ added for flare.

Enjoy and MERRY CHRISTMAS!

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That’s Christmas to Me



by Pentatonix



Songwriters: Scott Hoying / Kevin Oluwole Olusola

The fireplace is burning bright, shining all on me

I see the presents underneath the good old Christmas tree

And I wait all night ’til Santa comes to wake me from my dreams

Oh, why? ‘Cause that’s Christmas to me

I see the children play outside, like angels in the snow

While mom and daddy share a kiss under the mistletoe

And we’ll cherish all these simple things wherever we may be

Oh, why? ‘Cause that’s Christmas to me

I’ve got this Christmas song in my heart

I’ve got the candles glowing in the dark

I’m hanging all the stockings by the Christmas tree

Oh, why? ‘Cause that’s Christmas to me

Oh, why? ‘Cause that’s Christmas to me

I listen for the thud of reindeer walking on the roof

As I fall asleep to lullabies, the morning’s coming soon

The only gift I’ll ever need is the joy of family

Oh, why? ‘Cause that’s Christmas to me

I’ve got this Christmas song in my heart (song in my heart)

I’ve got the candles glowing in the dark

I’m hanging all the stockings by the Christmas tree

Oh, why? ‘Cause that’s Christmas to me

Oh, why? ‘Cause that’s Christmas to me

Oh

Oh

Oh, all the joy that fills our hearts and makes us see

Oh, why? ‘Cause that’s Christmas to me

I’ve got this Christmas song in my heart

I’ve got the candles glowing in the dark

And then for years to come we’ll always know one thing

That’s the love that Christmas can bring

Oh, why? ‘Cause that’s Christmas to me

 

 

Compiled from Google, Lyric Find, Genius Lyrics, Wikipedia, and Songfacts.com