in the next ninety minutes I am curating some hot tracks from my music library
| Title | Artist | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Don’t Stop Me Now | Queen | “Don’t Stop Me Now” is written by lead singer Freddie Mercury, it was recorded in August 1978 at Super Bear Studios in Berre-les-Alpes (Alpes-Maritimes), France. The band felt they were “getting better at having a good time” and the lyrics reflect this. |
| I’m So Excited | The Pointer Sisters | I’m So Excited was written and recorded by The Pointer Sisters with lead vocals by Anita Pointer. Anita Pointer died from cancer at her home in Beverly Hills, California, on December 31, 2022, aged 74. |
| Paradise By the Dashboard Light | Meat Loaf | “Paradise by the Dashboard Light” is a song written by Jim Steinman. It was released in 1977 on the album Bat Out of Hell, with vocals by the American musician Meat Loaf alongside Ellen Foley. The baseball play-by-play section, written specifically for New York Yankees announcer Phil Rizzuto. According to Meat Loaf on VH1 Storytellers, the original length of the track was to be 27 minutes. |
| Half a Boy and Half a Man | Nick Lowe | “Half a Boy, Half a Man.” was written and performed by British rocker Nick Lowe with nods to Tex-Mex music and released in 1984. |
| You Shook Me All Night Long | AC/DC | “You Shook Me All Night Long” is a song by Australian hard rock band AC/DC,written by Angus Young, Malcolm Young and Brian Johnson and likely also by Bon Scott. |
| Sexy M.F. | Prince & The New Power Generation | “Sexy MF” is a song by American musician Prince and the New Power Generation, released as a single from their 1992 album Love Symbol. The music and most of the lyrics were composed by Prince, while Levi Seacer Jr. came up with the chorus and the song’s title. Tony M. also delivers a rap, which he wrote. |
| Sexy Cinderella | Lynden David Hall | “Sexy Cinderella” is written and performed by Lynden David Hall and released in 1997. Hall appeared in the film Love Actually in 2003 as the lead singer of the surprise band that plays the Beatles’ “All You Need Is Love” at the wedding of the characters played by Keira Knightley and Chiwetel Ejiofor. |
| Redbone | Childish Gambino | Donald McKinley Glover Jr, also known by his stage name Childish Gambino, is an American actor, comedian, singer, rapper, writer, director, and producer. The song is based on “I’d Rather Be with You” by Bootsy’s Rubber Band, composed by George Clinton, Bootsy Collins and Gary “Mudbone” Cooper. Swedish producer Ludwig Göransson recorded all the instruments starting out from a drum beat that Donald Glover was playing. Glover stated that there was no vocal pitching on the song, he just sang differently. |
| King Kunta | Kendrick Lamar | “King Kunta” is a song by American hip hop recording artist Kendrick Lamar co-written with Thundercat. “King Kunta” is a reference to Kunta Kinte a young man taken from The Gambia when he was seventeen and sold as a slave. |
| I Want Your Sex | George Michael | Part 1 of “I Want Your Sex” was recorded and written entirely in the studio by George Michael playing all the instruments: a LinnDrum, a Roland Juno-106 and a Yamaha DX7. |
| Justify my love | Madonna | “Justify My Love” was written by singer and songwriter Ingrid Chavez as a love letter dedicated to Kravitz, who was having an affair with her at the time. It features spoken word vocals by Madonna and Kravitz’s “moans” on background vocals. |
| Love To Love You Baby | Donna Summer | Donna Summer suggested the lyric “Love to Love You Baby” to Giorgio Moroder who turned it into a full disco song. The album version is 16:49 minutes long. |
| Sexual Healing | Marvin Gaye | Marvin Gaye wrote his comeback song, “Sexual Healing”, while residing in Oostende, Belgium in 1981 together with two of of his musicians, Gordon Banks and Odell Brown, |
| Sex Bomb | Tom Jones | “Sex Bomb” is a song by Welsh singer Tom Jones. Performed in collaboration with German DJ and record producer Mousse T. |
| Sex Machine | James Brown | “Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine (Part 1)” centres on the insistent riff played by brothers Bootsy and Catfish Collins on bass and guitar and Jabo Starks on drums, along with the call and response interplay between Brown and Bobby Byrd’s vocals. During the song’s final vocal passages Brown and Byrd started to sing the main hook of Elmore James’ blues classic “Shake Your Moneymaker”. |
| Hot Stuff | The Rolling Stones | The Rolling Stones’ “Hot Stuff” written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, features Ollie E. Brown on percussion and guest guitarist Harvey Mandel (providing the lead guitar solo throughout), formerly of Canned Heat. Lead Electric Guitar: Harvey Mandel, Electric Guitar Riffs: Keith Richards, Bass: Bill Wyman, Drums: Charlie Watts and Piano: Billy Preston. |
| You Sexy Thing | Hot Chocolate | “You Sexy Thing” is a song by British band Hot Chocolate, written by lead singer Errol Brown and bass guitarist Tony Wilson. Initially the b-side of their single “Blue Night”, it was re-released as a-side a few months later. It featured in the 1997 British film The Full Monty, as well as Tom Jones’ cover of “You Can Leave Your Hat On”. |
| You Can Leave Your Hat On | Joe Cocker | “You Can Leave Your Hat On” is a song written by Randy Newman. Joe Cocker recorded “You Can Leave Your Hat On” in 1986. It featured in the 1986 American movie 9½ Weeks. |
| A Far L’amore Comincia Tu | Raffaella Carrà | ¡Señoras y señores! La hora de… Raffaella Carrà “A far l’amore comincia tu” (“You start making love first”) is a song by Italian singer Raffaella Carrà, written by Franco Bracardi and Daniele Pace. |
| Je T’aime…moi Non Plus (ft. Serge Gainsbourg) | Brigitte Bardot | “Je t’aime… moi non plus” (French for “I love you… me neither”) is a 1967 song written by Serge Gainsbourg for and with his girlfriend, Brigitte Bardot released in 1986. The title was inspired by a Salvador Dalí comment: “Picasso is Spanish, me too. Picasso is a genius, me too. Picasso is a communist, me neither”. The best known version with Jane Birkin was released in 1969, labeled “Interdit aux moins de 21 ans” (forbidden to those under 21) and could not be aired before 11 pm in France. It was banned from radio in Spain, Sweden, Brazil, the UK, Italy. |
Sources
The information sources of the song facts include, but are not limited to, Wikipedia, songfacts.com, discogs.com, secondhandsongs.com, YouTube and artists’ related websites.
