Diggin' Up Bones - Randy Travis (cover-live by Bill Sharkey)
Diggin' Up Bones (Randy Travis, 1986). Live cover performance by Bill Sharkey, Home Studio, Hawaii Kai, HI. 2022-07-11. "Keeping the Oldies & Classics Alive"
"Diggin' Up Bones," written by Paul Overstreet, Nat Stuckey and Al Gore, was Randy Travis' 4th release and second no. 1 on the Billboard Top Country Singles chart rising to the top position in 1986, no. 1 on the Canadian RPM Country Tracks, and was certified Gold as a digital download for 500,000 downloads in 2021 (songfacts, 2022; Whitburn, 1994). Nat Stuckey received co-credit because "Diggin' Up Bones" used the melody from Stuckey's song "Sun Comin' Up" (youtube, 2009).
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Lyrics:
Last night I dug your picture out from our old dresser drawer.
I set it on the table and I talked to it till four.
I read some old love letters right up to the break of dawn.
Yeah, I've been sittin' alone, diggin' up bones.
Then I went through the jewelry and I found our wedding rings.
I put mine on my finger and I gave yours a fling
Across this lonely bedroom of our recent broken home.
Yeah, tonight I'm sittin' alone, diggin' up bones.
I'm diggin' up bones, I'm diggin' up bones,
Exhuming things that's better left alone.
And I'm resurrecting mem'ries of a love that's dead and gone.
Yeah, tonight I'm sittin' alone, diggin' up bones.
And I went through the closet and I found some things in there,
Like that pretty lingerie that I bought you to wear.
And I recalled how good you looked each time you had it on.
Yeah, tonight I'm sittin' alone, diggin' up bones.
I'm diggin' up bones, I'm diggin' up bones,
Exhuming things that's better left alone.
And I'm resurrecting mem'ries of a love that's dead and gone.
Yeah, tonight I'm sittin' alone, diggin' up bones.
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Hold Me Now - Thompson Twins (cover-live by Bill Sharkey)
Hold Me Now (Thompson Twins, The, 1983). Live cover performance by Bill Sharkey, Home Studio, Hawaii Kai, HI. 2022-06-28. "Keeping the Oldies Alive"
"Hold Me Now," written by Tom Bailey, Alannah Currie and Joe Leeway, was the Thompson Twins' highest charting single rising to the no. 3 position on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1983 (Whitburn, 2013) and no. 4 on the UK Singles chart (Lyrics, 2016). According to Bailey during an interview with songfacts (2014), Bailey and Currie "'wrote the song after a heated argument that they had resolved. 'We actually decided, well, this is an interesting emotional subject, . . . What it feels like to get back together again after separation and the kind of ideas that come up and the way that emotion and physicality somehow are brought together.'" The groups' name came from two incompetent investigator characters in "The Adventures of Tintin" cartoon, Thomson and Thompson (identical doubles not twin brothers) (M. Donelson, allmusic, 2022; Wikipedia, 2022).
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Lyrics:
I have a picture,
Pinned to my wall.
An image of you and of me and we're laughing and loving it all.
Look at our life now, tattered and torn.
We fuss and we fight and delight in the tears that we cry until dawn
Hold me now, warm my heart
Stay with me, let loving start (let loving start)
You say I'm a dreamer, we're two of a kind
Both of us searching for some perfect world we know we'll never find
So perhaps I should leave here, yeah yeah go far away
But you know that there's no where that I'd rather be than with you here today
Hold me now, warm my heart
Stay with me, let loving start (let loving start)
You ask if I love you, well what can I say?
You know that I do and if this is just one of those games that we play
So I'll sing you a new song, please don't cry anymore
And then I'll ask your forgiveness, though I don't know just what I'm
Asking it for
Hold me now, warm my heart
Stay with me, let loving start (let loving start)
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Little Old Lady (From Pasadena), The - Jan & Dean (cover-live by Bill Sharkey)
The Little Old Lady (From Pasadena) (Jan & Dean, 1964). Live cover performance by Bill Sharkey, Home Studio, Hawaii Kai, HI. 2022-07-04. "Keeping the Oldies Alive"
"The Little Old Lady (From Pasadena)," written by Don Altfeld and Roger Christian, was Jan & Dean's last top 10 single rising to the no. 3 position on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1964 (Whitburn, 2013). "Jan & Dean are justifiably thought of as the best vocal surf/hot rod act besides the Beach Boys" (R. Unterberger, allmusic, 2022).In fact, they sounded so much alike people often confused the two groups recordings. It's not surprising that both groups influenced each other's early recordings; they were friends and they actually performed on some of each other's tracks (e.g., Dean Torrence and Brian Wilson both sang lead on the Beach Boys' cover of the Regents' "Barbara Ann," they covered each other's songs, Brian Wilson wrote Jan & Dean's only no. 1 song "Surf City" (T. Lohr, spinditty, 19 Oct., 2021). According to Frank Mastropolo (medium, 20 Jul., 2021), "Don Altfeld was cruising in his Corvette down LA’s Colorado Boulevard towards Pasadena. . . . and had a vision that night of an elderly grandmother tooling down the strip in a yellow 1932 Ford coupe. . . . The next day he’s sitting in Bacteriology class. He scribbles down ‘The Little Old Lady from Pasadena’ as a song idea and starts writing lyrics in the margins of his notes. Don calls [his] friend and lyricist Roger Christian [who gets together with Don] and they collaborate on the ‘Little Old Lady’ idea. In about three days they have a complete version of the song.”
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Lyrics:
It's the little old lady from Pasadena
The little old lady from Pasadena
(Go granny, go granny, go granny, go)
Has a pretty little flowerbed of white gardenias
(Go granny, go granny, go granny, go)
But parked in a rickety old garage
There's a brand new shiny super-stocked Dodge
And everybody's sayin' that there's nobody meaner than
The little old lady from Pasadena
She drives real fast and she drives real hard
She's the terror of Colorado boulevard
It's the little old lady from Pasadena
If you see her on the strip, don't try to choose her
(Go granny, go granny, go granny, go)
You might drive a go-er, but you'll never lose her
(Go granny, go granny, go granny, go)
Well, she's gonna get a ticket now, sooner or later
'Cause she can't keep her foot off the accelerator
And everybody's sayin' that there's nobody meaner than
The Little Old Lady From Pasadena
She drives real fast and she drives real hard
She's the terror of Colorado Boulevard
It's the little old lady from Pasadena
You can catch her all the time, just gettin' her kicks now
(Go granny, go granny, go granny, go)
With her four speed stick and a four-two-six now
(Go granny, go granny, go granny, go)
The guys come to race her from miles around
But she'll give 'em a length, then she'll shut 'em down
And everybody's sayin' that there's nobody meaner than
The little old lady from Pasadena
She drives real fast and she drives real hard
She's the terror of Colorado boulevard
It's the little old lady from Pasadena
Go granny, go granny, go granny, go (come on granny, go)
Go granny, go granny, go granny, go (come on granny, go)
Go granny, go granny, go granny, go (come on granny, go)
Go granny, go granny, go granny, go (come on granny, go)
Go granny, go granny, go granny, go (come on granny, go)
Go granny, go granny, go granny, go (come on granny, go)
Go granny, go granny, go granny, go (come on granny, go)
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Respectable - Outsiders, The (cover-live by Bill Sharkey)
Respectable (Outsiders, The, 1966). Live cover performance by Bill Sharkey, Home Studio, Hawaii Kai, HI. 2022-06-28. "Keeping the Oldies Alive"
"Respectable," written by O'Kelly Isley, Ronald Isley and Rudolph Isley, was the Outsiders' second top 20 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart landing at no. 15 in 1966; it would be the last time the group scored a top 20 hit (Whitburn, 2013). Bruce Eder of allmusic.com (2022) argued that "the Outsiders will never be considered for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Bands with just two big hits ("Time Won't Let Me," "Respectable") and a history mostly confined to AM radio in the '60s don't seem to rate that kind of recognition. But if any two-hit, dance-oriented band from the '60s ever deserved a crack at being voted in, the Outsiders do, simply based on the quality of their work over three years and four albums." I could not agree more.
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Lyrics:
What kind of girl is this?
She's never ever been kissed.
Rubbidy rub dub dub,
She's never ever been in love.
She's never been in the moonlight
Watchin' the stars above.
What kind of girl is this?
She's never been out on a date.
What kind of girl is this?
She's never ever come home late.
But I begged her on my knees to please go out with me.
And she did.
Did ya love her? (No, no, no, no!)
Did ya hug her? (No, no no no no!)
Did ya squeeze her? (No, no, no, no!)
Did ya kiss her? (No, no no no no!)
What kind of girl is this?
She's never ever been kissed.
What kind of girl is this?
Let me tell you,
She's the kind you can't resist.
But I lover her, can't you see?
She's the kind of girl for me.
She's so respectable! (repeat and fade)
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Ebony Eyes - Bob Welch (cover-live by Bill Sharkey)
Ebony Eyes (Bob Welch, 1978). Live cover performance by Bill Sharkey, Home Studio, Hawaii Kai, HI. 2022-07-02. "Keeping the Oldies Alive"
"Ebony Eyes," written by John Henning and Bob Welch, was Welch's sophomore release that rose to no. 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1978 (Whitburn, 2013). Background vocals were provided by Juice Newton (fleetwoodmac fandom, 2022). Welch was a member of Fleetwood Mac from 1971-1974 before going solo; he was replaced by Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks (imdb, 2022). Welsh died June 7th, 2012 of a self-inflicted gun shot wound to the chest; he was 66 years old (A. Duke, cnn, 8 Jun., 2012). "Bart Herbison, executive director of the Nashville Songwriters Association, quoted [Welch's] wife Wendy as saying Welch had spinal surgery three months ago and doctors told him he would not get better. He did not want her to have to care for an invalid" (imdb, 2022).
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Lyrics:
Well have you seen that girl in the corner
I'd like to take her out of her chains
'Cause if I have my way with you baby
I would be changing your life today
Your eyes got me dreamin
Your eyes got me blind
Your eyes got me hopin
That I'll be holding you close tonight
Your eyes got me dreamin
Your eyes got me blind
Your eyes got me hopin
That I'll be holding you close tonight
She was the same as a hundred ladies
But when my eyes looked at her I learned
That she was keepin a secret fire
And if I got real close I'd burn
So it looked like I had to move slowly
Like a cat at night in the trees
'Cause I was waiting for her to show me
The way that she like her love to feel
Your eyes got me dreamin
Your eyes got me blind
Your eyes got me hopin
That I'll be holding you close tonight
Your eyes got me dreamin
Your eyes got me blind
Your eyes got me hopin
That I'll be holding you close tonight
Ebony eyes, ebony eyes
Ebony eyes, ebony eyes
Your eyes got me dreamin
Your eyes got me blind
Your eyes got me hopin
That I'll be holding you close tonight
Your eyes got me dreamin
Your eyes got me blind
Your eyes got me hopin
That I'll be holding you close tonight
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Margarita - Israel Kamakawiwoʻole [aka Bruddah Iz] (cover-live by Bill Sharkey)
Margarita (Israel Kamakawiwoʻole [aka Bruddah Iz], 1990). Live cover performance by Bill Sharkey, Home Studio, Hawaii Kai, HI. 2022-06-30. "Keeping the Oldies Alive"
"Margarita," written by Justin B Fawsitt, was recorded by Brudda Iz for his 1990 solo debut album "Ka ʻAnoʻi" (Fawsitt, 2022). Fawsitt eventually recorded the song himself in 2020 for his "Living on the Moon" LP (last, 2022). Israel Kamakawiwoʻole began his singing career with "The Mākaha Sons of Ni‘ihau” in 1976. The group was formed on the Hawaiian island of Oʻahu by Jerome Koko, Louis "Moon" Kauakahi, Sam Gray, Israel Kamakawiwoʻole and his brother Skippy (upaupatahiti, 2020). In 1993, Bruddah Iz left "The Mākaha Sons of Ni‘ihau” and put together a backup trio with his cousin Mel Amina and Roland “Bozo” Cazimero; this trio was the beginning of Iz moving toward a solo career (hawaiinewsnow, 14 Nov., 2018). He then released his second album "Facing Future," which is the all-time best-selling album by a Hawaiian artist; and in 2005, the album reached platinum status "selling more then one million copies, the only Hawaiian music album to do so" (izhawaii, 2022).
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Lyrics:
On a hilltop in Tahiti as we gazed across the bay
At the island of Moorea, standing in the day
And my lovely Margarita serving cool Hinano beer
I'll be a fool in paradise if I'm a fool out here
Yo orana, can you stand the heat
Yo orana, dancing in bare feet
Yo orana, when you laugh at me
Yo orana, said I... I'm in ecstacy
Her name is Margarita and the salt upon your lips
Tell me lemon and tequila is the flavor of your kiss
All the magic and the beauty and the humor of this
Isle
Is captured like a goldfish in the sparkle of your
Smile
Yo orana, can you stand the heat
Yo orana, dancing in bare feet
Yo orana, when you laugh at me
Yo orana, said I... I'm in ecstacy
The sunshine warms your mountain and it paints you
Golden brown
These waters lap around you where I only hope to drown
The coconut plantation, the sea and sky are blue
The south pacific islands they are all caressing you
Yo orana, can you stand the heat
Yo orana, dancing in bare feet
Yo orana, when you laugh at me
Yo orana, said I... I'm in ecstacy
The crimson dress you're wearing, with nothing
Underneath
The flower there behind your ear, the grass beneath
Your feet
Margarita, Margarita please dance with me tonight
We will dance together where the stars are shining
Bright
Yo orana, can you stand the heat
Yo orana, dancing in bare feet
Yo orana, when you laugh at me
Yo orana, said I... I'm in ecstacy
Margarita, Margarita I come from far away
Let's go take a dive down in Makawai Bay
Margarita, Margarita, we pokin Hinalea
We go in the dark and we don't need a spear
Yo orana, can you stand the heat
Yo orana, dancing in bare feet
Yo orana, when you laugh at me
Yo orana, said I... I'm in ecstacy
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Big Girls Don't Cry - Four Seasons, The (cover-live by Bill Sharkey)
Big Girls Don't Cry (Four Seasons, The, 1962). Live cover performance by Bill Sharkey, Home Studio, Hawaii Kai, HI. 2022-06-24. "Keeping the Oldies Alive"
"Big Girls Don't Cry," written by bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio, was the Four Seasons' second release and second consecutive no. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1962 (Whitburn, 2013). The song was also inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (Whitburn, 2013). According to Bob Crewe (the Four Seasons' producer and co-writer of the song) stated that the song was "inspired by a line in the 1955 western 'Tennessee's Partner,' starring John Payne, Rhonda Fleming and Ronald Reagan. When Payne's character slap[ed] the blonde bombshell played by Fleming, he ask[ed] her what she [thought] about being slapped. She [got] up, compose[d] herself, and replie[d], 'Big girls don't cry'" (songfacts, 2022).
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Lyrics:
Big girls don't cry
Big girls don't cry
Big girls don't cry-yi-yi (they don't cry)
Big girls don't cry (who said they don't cry?)
My girl said goodbye-yi-yi (my oh my)
My girl didn't cry (I wonder why)
(Silly boy) told my girl we had to break up
(Silly boy) hoped that she would call my bluff
(Silly boy) then she said to my surprise
"Big girls don't cry"
Big girls don't cry-yi-yi (they don't cry)
Big girls don't cry (who said they don't cry?)
(Maybe) I was cru-you-uel (I was cruel)
Baby I'm a fool (I'm such a fool)
(Silly girl) "Shame on you" your mama said
(Silly girl) "Shame on you, you're cryin' in bed"
(Silly girl) "Shame on you, you told me lies"
Big girls do cry
Big girls don't cr-yi-yi (they don't cry)
Big girls don't cry (that's just an alibi)
Big girls don't cry
Big girls don't cry
Big girls don't cry
Big girls don't cry
Big girls don't cry
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Mr. Tambourine Man - Byrds, The / Bob Dylan (cover-live by Bill Sharkey)
Mr. Tambourine Man (Byrds, The, 1965; Bob Dylan, 1965). Live cover performance by Bill Sharkey, Home Studio, Hawaii Kai, HI. 2022-06-26. "Keeping the Oldies Alive"
"Mr. Tambourine Man," written by Bob Dylan, was the Byrds' first release and climbed to the no. 1 position on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1965; the Byrds' recording was inducted into the Grammy: Hall of Fame as well åças the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and is found at no. 79 on Rolling Stone magazines' "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" (Whitburn, 2013). This is the only Bob Dylan song to ever reach the no. 1 position on the Billboard charts in the USA (songfacts, 2022). Dylan claimed that he was inspired by folk guitarist "Bruce [Langhorne who] was playing with me on a bunch of early records. On one session, [producer] Tom Wilson had asked him to play tambourine. And he had this gigantic tambourine. It was, like, really big. It was as big as a wagon wheel. He was playing and this vision of him playing just stuck in my mind" (songfacts, 2022). The musicians on the Byrds' track included Roger McGuinn and the Wrecking Crew; Gene Clark and David Crosby supplied the background harmony vocals. At the time of the recording, McGuinn, Clark and Crosby were known at the Jet Set, "the Byrds" were not hatched yet (wikipedia, 2022).
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Lyrics:
Hey, Mr. Tambourine man, play a song for me
I'm not sleepy and there ain't no place I'm going to
Hey, Mr. Tambourine man, play a song for me
In the jingle jangle morning, I'll come followin' you
Take me for a trip upon your magic swirling ship
All my senses have been stripped
And my hands can't feel to grip
And my toes too numb to step
Wait only for my boot heels to be wandering
I'm ready to go anywhere, I'm ready for to fade
Into my own parade
Cast your dancing spell my way
I promise to go under it
Hey, Mr. Tambourine man, play a song for me
I'm not sleepy and there ain't no place I'm going to
Hey, Mr. Tambourine man, play a song for me
In the jingle jangle morning, I'll come followin' you
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End Of The Line - Traveling Wilburys (cover-live by Bill Sharkey)
End Of The Line (Traveling Wilburys, 1989). Live cover performance by Bill Sharkey, Home Studio, Hawaii Kai, HI. 2022-06-22. "Keeping the Oldies Alive"
"End Of The Line," written by Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison and Tom Petty, was the Wilburys' second and last entry onto the Billboard Hot 100 chart stalling at the no. 63 position in 1989 (Whitburn, 2013). Roy Orbison passed away due to a heart attack on Dec. 06,1988 at the age of 52 (rock.fandom, 2022; Whitburn, 2013). In the music video for this song, the band members decided to place Obison's picture on a table and his guitar on a rocking chair when his lead vocal comes in (youtube, 2016). Also gone are George Harrison (d: 29 November 2001) (A. Dansby, rolling stone, Nov. 30, 2001) and Tom Petty (d: 02 October 2017) (R. Ellis, cnn, Jan. 21, 2018). The songs title and hook is referent to a train's last stop, "end of the line" (songfacts, 2022).
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Lyrics:
Well it's all right, riding around in the breeze
Well it's all right, if you live the life you please
Well it's all right, doing the best you can
Well it's all right, as long as you lend a hand
You can sit around and wait for the phone to ring (end of the line)
Waiting for someone to tell you everything (end of the line)
Sit around and wonder what tomorrow will bring (end of the line)
Maybe a diamond ring
Well it's all right, even if they say you're wrong
Well it's all right, sometimes you gotta be strong
Well it's all right, as long as you got somewhere to lay
Well it's all right, everyday is judgment day
Maybe somewhere down the road aways (end of the line)
You'll think of me, wonder where I am these days (end of the line)
Maybe somewhere down the road when somebody plays (end of the line)
Purple haze
Well it's all right, even when push comes to shove
Well it's all right, if you got someone to love
Well it's all right, everything'll work out fine
Well it's all right, we're going to the end of the line
Don't have to be ashamed of the car I drive (end of the line)
I'm just glad to be here, happy to be alive (end of the line)
It don't matter if you're by my side (end of the line)
I'm satisfied
Well it's all right, even if you're old and grey
Well it's all right, you still got something to say
Well it's all right, remember to live and let live
Well it's all right, the best you can do is forgive
Well it's all right, riding around in the breeze
Well it's all right, if you live the life you please
Well it's all right, even if the sun don't shine
Well it's all right, we're going to the end of the line
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Me and You and a Dog Named Boo - Lobo (cover-live by Bill Sharkey)
Me and You and a Dog Named Boo (Lobo, 1971). Live cover performance by Bill Sharkey, Home Studio, Hawaii Kai, HI. 2022-06-20. "Keeping the Oldies Alive"
"Me and You and a Dog Named Boo," written by Lobo (born Roland Kent LaVoie), was Lobo's first release and first top 10 hit rising to the no. 5 position on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1971 (Whitburn, 2013). Has Lobo was writing the song, the original title and phrase was "You and Me;" however, Lobo stated: "'me and you' would have been easier, but I was trying to do it with proper grammar. I couldn't find anything to rhyme that fit what I wanted to say in the song. Finally, after I got back home to Florida, I decided to turn the phrase around to 'me and you.' I was thinking about it, sitting in a room . . . My big German shepherd dog: Boo, came running around the corner and looked in at me. I said: 'Well, now, that's kinda freaky. How about putting 'a dog named Boo' into the song?' That's literally how it came about" (songfacts, 2022). Lobo had a total of 8 top 40 hits in the 1970s with three of them reaching the top 10 "Me and You. . . ," "I'd Love You To Want Me" and "Don't expect Me To Be Your Friend" (Whitburn, 2013).
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Lyrics:
I remember to this day
The bright red Georgia clay
And how it stuck to the tires
After the summer rain
Will power made that old car go
A woman's mind told me that so
Oh how I wish
We were back on the road again
Me and you and a dog named boo
Travelin' and livin' off the land
Me and you and a dog named boo
How I love being a free man
I can still recall
The wheat fields of St. Paul
And the morning we got caught
Robbing from an old hen
Old McDonald he made us work
But then he paid us for what it was worth
Another tank of gas
And back on the road again
I'll never forget the day
We motored stately into big L.A.
The lights of the city put settlin'
Down in my brain
Though it's only been a month or so
That old car's buggin' us to go
We've gotta get away and get back on
The road again
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Neanderthal Man - Hotlegs (cover-live by Bill Sharkey)
Neanderthal Man (Hotlegs, 1970). Live cover performance by Bill Sharkey, Home Studio, Hawaii Kai, HI. 2022-06-18. "Keeping the Oldies Alive"
"Neanderthal Man," written by Lol Creme, Kevin Godley and Eric Stewart, was Hotlegs only release that hit the Billboard Hot 100 chart landing at the no. 22 position in 1970 (Whitburn, 2013). However, the song was a no. 1 hit in Germany and Italy and rose to the no. 2 position in the UK (genius, 2022). Creme, Godley and Stewart were in the studio trying out some new recording equipment. According to Stewart, Dick Leahy, an A&R man from the Philips label, dropped by and asked "`What the hell's that you're playing?' I said, `It's a studio experiment; a percussive experiment.' He says, `It sounds like a hit record to me...' and `Can we release it?' And we said, `Yeah, okay'" (allmusic, 2022). At the time, they did not have a group name to place on the record, but they "had a girl at the studio… Kathy Gill, who had very, very nice legs and used to wear these incredible hot pants. So we called the group Hotlegs” (Genius, 2022). In 1972, they added Graham Gouldman to the group and changed their name to 10cc and had multiple hit songs (allmusic, 2022).
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Lyrics:
I'm a neanderthal man
You're a neanderthal girl
Let's make neanderthal love
In this neanderthal world
I'm a neanderthal man
You're a neanderthal girl
Let's make neanderthal love
In this neanderthal world
I'm a neanderthal man
You're a neanderthal girl
Let's make neanderthal love
In this neanderthal world
I'm a neanderthal man
You're a neanderthal girl
Let's make neanderthal love
In this neanderthal world
Neanderthal man
Neanderthal man
Ahhhh. . . .
I'm a neanderthal man
You're a neanderthal girl
Let's make neanderthal love
In this neanderthal world
I'm a neanderthal man
You're a neanderthal girl
Let's make neanderthal love
In this neanderthal world
I'm a neanderthal man
You're a neanderthal girl
Let's make neanderthal love
In this neanderthal world
na na na na . . .
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Swayin' to the Music (Slow Dancin') - Johnny Rivers (cover-live by Bill Sharkey)
Swayin' to the Music (Slow Dancin') (Johnny Rivers, 1977). Live cover performance by Bill Sharkey, Home Studio, Hawaii Kai, HI. 2022-06-15. "Keeping the Oldies Alive"
"Swayin' to the Music (Slow Dancin')," written by Funky Kings' member Jack Tempchin, was released by the Funky Kings and Johnny Rivers in 1977 both charting on the Billboard Hot 100 chart landing at the no. 61 and no. 10 positions, respectively (Whitburn, 2013). The song was originally titled "Slow Dancing" as recorded by the Funky Kings (allmusic, 2022) and was also a hit with this title on the Billboard Top Country Singles chart in 1979 by Johnny Duncan landing at the no. 6 position (Whitburn, 1994). Johnny Rivers also had the song released with the title "Slow Dancin'" on the Soul City label promotional copy (eBay, 2022). Tempchin said that he wrote the song in 1972 for his then girlfriend, with whom he is still with (J. Tempchin, Youtube, 2010).
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Lyrics:
It's late at night and we're all alone
Just the music on the radio
No one's comin', no one's gonna telephone
Just me and you and the lights down low
And we're slow dancin', swayin' to the music
Slow dancin', just me and my girl
Slow dancin', swayin' to the music
No one else in the whole wide world just you, girl
And we just flow together when the lights are low
Shadows dancin' all across the wall
Music's playin' so soft and slow
Rest of the world so far away and small
When we're slow dancin', swayin' to the music
Slow dancin', just me and my girl
Slow dancin', swayin' to the music
No one else in the whole wide world
Hold me, oh, oh, oh, hold me
No never let me go
As we dance together in the dark
So much love in this heart of mine
You whisper to me, hold you tight
You're the one I thought I'd never find
Now we're slow dancin', swayin' to the music
Slow dancin', just me and my girl
Slow dancin', swayin' to the music
No one else in the whole wide world
Slow dancin', swayin' to the music
Slow dancin', just me and my girl
Slow dancin', swayin' to the music
No one else in the whole wide world
Whole wide world
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Today's The Day - America (cover-live by Bill Sharkey)
Today's The Day (America, 1976). Live cover performance by Bill Sharkey, Home Studio, Hawaii Kai, HI. 2022-06-14. "Keeping the Oldies Alive"
"Today's The Day," written by member Dan Peek, was America's ninth top 40 hit landing at the no. 23 position on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1971 (Whitburn, 2013). It had greater success on the Billboard Top Adult Contemporary chart on which it reached the top no. 1 position (Whitburn, 2002). Peek told the story of when Rod Stewart came to his studio and he said: "I played 'Today's the Day', the song I had been working on. Rod said that he liked it and that it gave him an idea for a song. Of course after his recording of 'Tonight's the Night' came out I laughed when I remembered what he'd said. I'm sure I probably smacked my forehead and said, 'Why didn't I think of that?'" (Peek, 2004). Stewart's "Tonight's the Night" rose to no. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and stayed there for eight weeks! (Whitburn, 2013).
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Lyrics:
Hold me close
You turn nighttime into day
And you're the most
Brightest star that lights my way
So come home to me now
Cause it won't matter anyhow
I've got this feeling that today's the day
I've got this feeling today's the day
Turn me out
Turn me out on this fine day
'Cause all about
All the people like to play
So come home to me now
Cause it won't matter anyhow
I've got this feeling that today's the day
I've got this feeling today's the day
I've got this feeling that today's the day
I've got this feeling today's the day
Hold me close
You turn nighttime into day
And you're the most
Brightest star that lights my way
So come home to me now
Cause it won't matter anyhow
I've got this feeling that today's the day
I've got this feeling today's the day
I've got this feeling that today's the day
I've got this feeling today's the day [
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P.S. I Love You - Beatles, The (cover-live by Bill Sharkey)
P.S. I Love You (Beatles, The, 1962/1964). Live cover performance by Bill Sharkey, Home Studio, Hawaii Kai, HI. 2022-06-12. "Keeping the Oldies Alive"
"P.S. I Love You," written by Paul McCartney but credited to Lennon and McCartney, was written in 1962 while the band was playing in Hamburg, Germany and was the band's first release as the "B" side of "Love me Do" in the UK (songfacts, 2022); the song was subsequently released in the USA in 1964 where it rose to the no. 10 position on the Billboard Hot 100 chart (Whitburn, 2013). Those involved in the recording of the song were John Lennon and George Harrison on guitars and background vocals, Paul McCartney on Bass and lead vocal, Andy White on Drums (woodblock), and Ringo Starr on maracas (Pete Best played drums on a few early takes of the song before being replaced by White) (beatlesbible, 2021).
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Lyrics:
As I write this letter, send my love to you
Remember that I'll always be in love with you
Treasure these few words till we're together
Keep all my love forever
P.S. I love you, you, you, you
I'll be coming home again to you, love
And till the day I do love
P.S. I love you, you, you, you
As I write this letter, send my love to you
Remember that I'll always be in love with you
Treasure these few words till we're together
Keep all my love forever
P.S. I love you, you, you, you
As I write this letter (oh)
Send my love to you (you know I want you to)
Remember that I'll always be in love with you
I'll be coming home again to you, love
And till the day I do love
P.S. I love you, you, you, you
You, you, you
I love you
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We're All Alone - Boz Scaggs / Rita Coolidge (cover-live by Bill Sharkey)
We're All Alone (Boz Scaggs, 1976; Rita Coolidge, 1977). Live cover performance by Bill Sharkey, Home Studio, Hawaii Kai, HI. 2022-06-10. "Keeping the Oldies Alive"
"We're All Alone," written and recorded by Boz Scaggs for his 1976 album "Silk Degrees," was a minor hit the same year for Frankie Valli stalling at the no. 78 position on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, while Rita Coolidge scored a no. 7 hit on the chart the following year (Whitburn, 2013). Scaggs did release a single version of the song in 1976 but as the "B" side to his two hits "Lido Shuffle" and "What Can I Say" (eBay, 2022).
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Lyrics:
Outside the rain begins
And it may never end
So cry no more
On the shore, a dream
Will take us out to sea
Forever more, forever more
Close your eyes and dream
And you can be with me
'Neath the waves
Through the caves of ours
Long forgotten now
We're all alone, we're all alone
Close the window, calm the light
And it will be all right
No need to bother now
Let it out, let it all begin
Learn how to pretend
Once a story's told
It can't help but grow old
Roses do, lovers too
So cast your seasons to the wind
And hold me, dear
Oh, hold me, dear
Close the window, calm the light
And it will be all right
No need to bother now
Let it out, let it all begin
All's forgotten now
We're all alone, oh, we're all alone
Close the window, calm the light
And it will be all right
No need to bother now
Let it out, let it all begin
Owe it to the wind
My love
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Take It Easy - Eagles, The (cover-live by Bill Sharkey)
Take It Easy (Eagles, The, 1972). Live cover performance by Bill Sharkey, Home Studio, Hawaii Kai, HI. 2022-05-20. "Keeping the Oldies Alive"
"Take It Easy," written by Jackson Browne and Glenn Frey, was the Eagles' very first entrance onto the Billboard Hot 100 in 1972 rising to #12 on the chart (Whitburn, 2013). "A real road trip inspired this song. Jackson Browne had been working on his first album for a long time and needed a break, so he headed to Utah from Southern California via Arizona, which took him through Winslow on Route 40 . . . [while passing through Utah, his 1953 Willys Jeep] died, and he was taken in by some guys he met out there. He started writing the song in their van, then completed it with Glenn Frey when he returned to California." (songfacts, 2022).
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Lyrics:
Well I'm a runnin' down the road
Tryin' to loosen my load
I've got seven women on my mind
Four that wanna own me
Two that wanna stone me
One says she's a friend of mine
Take it easy, take it easy
Don't let the sound of your own wheels
Drive you crazy
Lighten up while you still can
Don't even try to understand
Just find a place to make your stand
And take it easy
Well, I'm a standin' on a corner
In Winslow, Arizona
Such a fine sight to see
It's a girl my Lord in a flat-bed Ford
Slowin' down to take a look at me
Come on, baby, don't say maybe
I gotta know if your sweet love
Is gonna save me
We may lose and we may win
Though we will never be here again
So open up I'm climbin' in
So take it easy
Well, I'm a runnin' down the road
Tryin' to loosen my load
Got a world of trouble on my mind
Lookin' for a lover
Who won't blow my cover
She's so hard to find
Take it easy, take it easy
Don't let the sound of your own wheels
Make you crazy
Come on baby, don't say maybe
I gotta know if your sweet love
Is gonna save me
Oh we got it easy
We oughta take it easy
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Soul Deep - Box Tops, The (cover-live by Bill Sharkey)
Soul Deep (Box Tops, The, 1969). Live cover performance by Bill Sharkey, Home Studio, Hawaii Kai, HI. 2022-06-06. "Keeping the Oldies Alive"
"Soul Deep," written by Wayne Carson Thompsons (an American country musician, songwriter, and record producer), was the Box Tops' seventh and last top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart landing at the no. 18 position in 1969 (Whitburn, 2013). Of interest is the fact that Thompson wrote three of the Box Tops' hits (i.e., The Letter, Neon Rainbow & Soul Deep) (Last.fm, 2022). In 1970, Eddy Arnold released his country version of the song, which rose to no. 22 on Billboard's Country Top Singles' chart (Whitburn, 1994).
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Lyrics:
Darlin' I don't know much
I know I love you so much
My life depends on your touch
And my love is a river runnin' soul deep
Way down inside me it's a-soul deep
It's too big to hide and it can't be deni-ie-ed
My love is a river runnin' soul de-ee-ee-ep
I work myself to death for ya
Just to show I adore ya
Nothing I wouldn't do for ya
Cause my love is a river runnin' soul deep
Way down inside me it's a-soul deep
It's too big to hide and it can't be deni-ie-ed
My love is a river runnin' soul de-ee-ee-ep
All I ever ever hope to be
Depends on your love for me
Baby believe me, if you should leave me
I'd be nothing but an empty shell
I know darn well, I can tell now
I don't know much
But I know I love you so much
My life depends on your touch
And my love is a river runnin' soul deep
Way down inside me it's a-soul deep
It's too big to hide and it can't be deni-ie-ed
My love is a river runnin' soul de-ee-ee-ep
My love is a river runnin' soul deep
Way down inside me it's a-soul deep
My love is a river runnin' soul deep
Way down inside me it's a-soul deep
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God Only Knows - Beach Boys, The (cover-live by Bill Sharkey)
God Only Knows (Beach Boys, The, 1966). Live cover performance by Bill Sharkey, Home Studio, Hawaii Kai, HI. 2022-06-02. "Keeping the Oldies Alive"
"God Only Knows," written by Brian Wilson and Tony Asher, was the Beach Boys' 21st top 40 single landing at the no. 39 position on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1966 (Whitburn, 2013). It was the "B" side of "Wouldn't It Be Nice" (rateyourmusic, 2022). "God Only Knows" comes from the Beach Boys' album "Pet Sounds," which Rolling Stone magazine ranked 2nd behind the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" LP and was the "inspiration for the Beatles' [album]" (Levy, 2005). "God Only Knows" "was the first popular song to include God in the title since 'God Save the Queen' (British national anthem)" (M. Zontine, allmusic, 2021); indeed, the group members were concerned that the title would be interpreted as a religious song and not get much air play (J. Sanburn, entertainment.time, Oct. 21, 2011). Even so, Paul McCartney claimed that "God Only Knows" was "The greatest song ever written" (songfacts, 2022), TIME magazine included the song in their ALL-TIME 100 songs (TIME staff, 2011), and Rolling Stone magazine ranked "God Only Knows" 11th on their "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" (rollingstone, 2021).
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Lyrics:
I may not always love you
But long as there are stars above you
You never need to doubt it
I'll make you so sure about it
God only knows what I'd be without you
If you should ever leave me
Though life would still go on, believe me
The world could show nothing to me
So what good would livin' do me
God only knows what I'd be without you
God only knows what I'd be without you
If you should ever leave me
Though life would still go on, believe me
The world could show nothing to me
So what good would livin' do me
God only knows what I'd be without you
God only knows what I'd be without you
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Handle With Care - Traveling Wilburys (cover-live by Bill Sharkey)
Handle With Care (Traveling Wilburys, 1988). Live cover performance by Bill Sharkey, Home Studio, Hawaii Kai, HI. 2022-06-03. "Keeping the Oldies Alive"
"Handle With Care," written by Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison and Tom Petty, was the Wilburys' first and highest charting single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart stalling at the no. 45 position in 1988 and no. 2 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart; shortly after it's release, sadly, Roy Orbison passed away due to a heart attack Dec. 06,1988 at the age of 52 (rock.fandom, 2022; Whitburn, 2013); "Handle With Care" was Orbison's last recording (rock.fandom, 2022). Harrison grabbed the title of the song from a cardboard box in Dylan's studio as they were writing the song (songfacts, 2022). Jim Keltner provided the drumming for the song (B. Eder, allmusic, 2022).
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Lyrics:
Been beat up and battered 'round
Been sent up, and I've been shot down
You're the best thing that I've ever found
Handle me with care
Reputations changeable
Situations tolerable
Baby, you're adorable
Handle me with care
I'm so tired of being lonely
I still have some love to give
Won't you show me that you really care?
Everybody's got somebody to lean on
Put your body next to mine, and dream on
I've been fobbed off, and I've been fooled
I've been robbed and ridiculed
In daycare centers and night schools
Handle me with care
Been stuck in airports, terrorized
Sent to meetings, hypnotized
Overexposed, commercialized
Handle me with care
I'm so tired of being lonely
I still have some love to give
Won't you show me that you really care?
Everybody's got somebody to lean on
Put your body next to mine, and dream on
I've been uptight and made a mess
But I'll clean it up myself, I guess
Oh, the sweet smell of success
Handle me with care
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What's Your Name - Don & Juan (cover-live by Bill Sharkey)
What's Your Name (Don & Juan, 1962). Live cover performance by Bill Sharkey, Home Studio, Hawaii Kai, HI. 2022-05-31. "Keeping the Oldies Alive"
"What's Your Name," written by the duo's Claude Johnson (aka Juan) who was originally in the Genies, was the duo's only top 40 hit rising to no. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1962 (Whitburn, 2013). They are officially classified as a "one-hit-wonder," although they did chart with their second release "Magic Wand" (no. 91 on the chart) (Whitburn, 2013). "Don" was Roland Trone, who met Johnson in Long Island, NY while both were painters in an apartment building (mentalitch, 2022). "What's Your Name" is to this day one of the great Doo-Wop hits from the '50s and '60s.
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Lyrics:
What's your name? I have seen you before
What's your name? May I walk you to your door?
It's so hard to find a personality with charms like your's for me
Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ee
What's your name? Is it Mary or Sue?
What's your name? Do I stand a chance with you?
It's so hard to find a personality with charms like yours for me
Ooh-ee, ooh-ee, ooh-ee
I stood on this corner waiting for you to come along
So my heart could feel satisf-i-ied
So please let me be your number one
Under the moon, under the stars, and under the sun
Oh-oh, what's your name? (what's your name?) Is it Mary or Sue?
What's your name? Do I stand a chance with you?
It's so hard to find a personality with charms like yours for me
Ooh-ee, ooh-ee, ooh-ee
What's your name?
What's your name?
Shooby-doo-bop-bah-dah!!
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I Can't Control Myself - Troggs, The (cover-live by Bill Sharkey)
I Can't Control Myself (Troggs, The, 1966). Live cover performance by Bill Sharkey, Home Studio, Hawaii Kai, HI. 2022-05-29. "Keeping the Oldies Alive"
"I Can't Control Myself," written by Reg Presley, was the Troggs' third entry onto the Billboard Hot 100 chart stalling at no. 43 in 1966 (Whitburn, 2013). Because of the suggestive lyrics, the song's airplay was curtailed in the US, which kept the song from rising higher on the charts (allmusic, 2022). According to Presley, he was in East Anglia "and this girl stood in front of me and she had pillar-box red jeans cut so low you could see her pubic hair. I'm lookin' at her and I'm a bricklayer, not very world wise at that point, and I'm goin', Wa! In the car home it comes to me, (sings) 'I can't stand still 'cos she got me going/Her slacks are low and her hips are showing . . . I never met her, but she designed the song" (songfacts, 2022).
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Lyrics:
Oh no! Baba bababa baba ba ba
Baba bababa baba baba
I can't stand still 'cos you've got me goin'
Baba ba ba ba ba ba ba
Your slacks are low and your hips are shown'
Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba
I take you girl as you're standing there
Your low cut slacks and your long black hair
Don't want you goin' round with no one else
'Cause when I'm with you I can't control myself
Defense is down and you've got me shakin'
Baba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba
You've got me so that my nerves are breakin'
Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba
If you knew me like I know you girl
Your knees would bend and your hair would curl
You make me move yeah like no one else
And when I'm with you I can't control myself
I've got this feeling that's inside of me
It makes me think of how things used to be
It makes me feel allright
When I'm with you at night
And we love-and we love
Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba
Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba
You fill me so with this big temptation
Baba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba
This kind of feeling could move a nation
Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba
But I'm okay when I'm here with you
I do the things that you want me to
I do these things for no one else
But when I'm with you I can't control myself
Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba
Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba
Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba
Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba
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When Will I Be Loved - Linda Ronstadt / Everly Brothers, The (cover-live by Bill Sharkey)
When Will I Be Loved (Linda Ronstadt, 1975; Everly Brothers, The, 1960). Live cover performance by Bill Sharkey, Home Studio, Hawaii Kai, HI. 2022-05-26. "Keeping the Oldies Alive"
"When Will I Be Loved," written by Phil Everly, was a major hit for both The Everly Brothers in 1960 and Linda Ronstadt in 1975 rising to the no. 8 and no. 2 positions on the Billboard Hot 100 chart respectively (Whitburn, 2013). This was also Ronstadt's first no. 1 hit on Billboard's Country Top Singles chart the same year (Whitburn, 1994). According to songfacts (2022), "Phil Everly wrote this in his car, parked outside an A&W root beer stand. He took inspiration from his on-again, off-again romance with Jackie Ertel-Bleyer, the stepdaughter of Cadence Records founder, Archie Bleyer."
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Lyrics:
I've been cheated
Been mistreated
When will I be loved
I've been pushed down
I've been pushed 'round
When will I be loved
When I find a new girl
That I want for mine
She always breaks my heart in two
It happens every time
I've been made blue
I've been lied to
When will I be loved
When I find a new girl
That I want for mine
She always breaks my heart in two
It happens every time
Oh, I've been cheated
Been mistreated
When will I be loved
When will I be loved
Tell me, when will I be loved
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Hey Good Lookin' - Hank Williams (cover-live by Bill Sharkey)
Hey Good Lookin' (Hank Williams, 1951). Live cover performance by Bill Sharkey, Home Studio, Hawaii Kai, HI. 2022-05-26. "Keeping the Oldies Alive"
"Hey Good Lookin'" was Hank Williams' third entry onto the Billboard chart and third consecutive no. 1 hit landing at the top in 1951 and remaining at that position for eight weeks (Whitburn, 1986, 2013). It has been recorded by many artists over the years. His own version was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2001 (country-music.fandom.com, 2022), and in 2003, Country Music Television (CMT) voted his version No. 19 on CMT's "100 Greatest Songs of Country Music" (Wikipedia, 2022). Other artists who charted with Williams' song include: Jimmy Buffet (2004, no. 63 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and no. 8 on the Hot Country Songs chart) (Whitburn, 2013), The Mavericks hit no. 74 on the Top Country Singers chart in 1992 (Whitburn, 1994).
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Lyrics:
Hey, hey, good lookin',
Whatcha got cookin'?
How's about cookin' somethin' up with me?
Hey, sweet baby,
Don't you think maybe
We could find us a brand new recipe?
I got a hot-rod Ford and a two-dollar bill
And I know a spot right over the hill.
There's soda pop and the dancin's free,
So if you wanna have fun come along with me.
Hey, good lookin',
Whatcha got cookin'?
How's about cookin' somethin' up with me?
I'm free and ready,
So we can go steady.
How's about savin' all your time for me?
No more lookin',
I know I've been tooken.
How's about keepin' steady company?
I'm gonna throw my date-book over the fence
And find me one for five or ten cents.
I'll keep it 'til it's covered with age
'Cause I'm writin' your name down on every page.
Hey, good lookin',
Whatcha got cookin'?
How's about cookin' somethin' up with me?
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Hot Love - T-Rex (cover-live by Bill Sharkey)
Hot Love (T-Rex, 1971). Live cover performance by Bill Sharkey, Home Studio, Hawaii Kai, HI. 2022-05-24. "Keeping the Oldies Alive"
"Hot Love," written by Marc Bolan, was T-Rex's first entry onto the Billboard Hot 100 chart as "T-Rex" but failed to move past the no. 72 position on the chart in 1971 (the original band Tyrannosaurus Rex's single "Ride A White Swan" was Bolan's first entry onto the chart) (Whitburn, 2013); however, the song did reach the no. 1 position on the UK Singles Chart (Larkin, 1997). The song was released as a standalone single and not included on an album until the following year when the record label released the compilation LP "Bolan Boogie" with "Hot Love" included on it (rateyourmusic, 2022).
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Lyrics:
Well, she's my woman of gold
And she's not very old, ah, ah, ah
Well, she's my woman of gold
And she's not very old, ah, ah, ah
I don't mean to be bold, but may I hold your hand
Well, she ain't no witch
And I love the way she twitch, ah, ah, ah
Well, she ain't no witch
And I love the way she twitch, ah, ah, ah
I'm a laborer of love in my Persian gloves,
La la la, la la la la
La la la, la la la la
La la la, la la la la
La la la, la la la la
Well, she's faster than most
And she lives on the coast, ah, ah, ah
Well, she's faster than most
And she lives on the coast, ah, ah, ah
I'm her two penny prince and I give her hot love, ah, ah, ah
Take your leave, mama
Ow, aw
Oooooo, Ahhhhhhh
Well, she ain't no witch
And I love the way she twitch, ah, ah, ah
Well, she ain't no witch
And I love the way she twitch, ah, ah, ah
I'm her two penny prince and I give her hot love, ah, ah, ah
La la la, la la la la
La la la, la la la la
La la la, la la la la
La la la, la la la la
Ooh
La la la, la la la la
La la la, la la la la
La la la, la la la la
La la la, la la la la
Ooh, yeah
La la la, la la la la
La la la, la la la la
La la la, la la la la
La la la, la la la la
Ooh
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You Showed Me - Turtles, The (cover-live by Bill Sharkey)
You Showed Me (Turtles, The, 1969). Live cover performance by Bill Sharkey, Home Studio, Hawaii Kai, HI. 2022-05-22. "Keeping the Oldies Alive"
"You Showed Me," written by The Byrds' members Gene Clark and Roger McGuinn, was the Turtles' fifth and last top 10 hit rising to no. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1969 (Whitburn, 2013). The song as originally written was an uptempo number; however, Bassist Chip "Douglas first demonstrated [the song] for The Turtles' vocalists Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman on a harmonium with a broken bellows, requiring him to play the song slowly. The slower tempo impressed Kaylan and Volman and consequently," The Turtles' recorded the slower version (liquisearch, 2022).
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Lyrics:
You showed me how to do
Exactly what you do
How I fell in love with you
Oh, oh, oh, it's true
Oh, oh, I love you
You showed me how to say
Exactly what you say
In that very special way
Oh, oh, oh, it's true
You fell for me too
And when I tried it
I could see you fall
And I decided
It's not a trip at all
You taught it to me too
Exactly what you do
And now you love me too
Oh, oh, oh, it's true
We're in love we too
Na na na na na na
Na na na na na
Na na na na na
Oh oh oh oh oh
We're in love we two
We two
You showed me how to do
Exactly what you do
How I fell in love with you
(You...)
Showed me how to say
Exactly what you say
In that very special way
(You...)
Taught it to me too
Exactly what you do
And now you love me too
Now you love me too
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