Twenty-three eclectic tracks from my music library are waiting for your ears to be digested.
| Title | Artist | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| MALAMENTE – Cap.1: Augurio | Rosalía | “Malamente” or “Badly” was written and recorded at the CasArte on the island of El Hierro, Canary Islands, Spain and talks about a toxic relationship and how the woman knew that something wrong was going to happen in her life. |
| The Fear | Lily Allen | Allen wrote and recorded the song with Greg Kurstin in a cottage located in Moreton-in-Marsh (within the Cotswolds district and Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in Gloucestershire, England.) in 2007. |
| La Loi de Murphy | Angèle | “La Loi de Murphy” was written by Angèle with Belgian rapper Veence Hanao and Matthew Irons, the singer and guitarist of Belgian group Puggy. Angèle van Laeken was born on 3 December 1995, in Uccle, Brussels-Capital Region. Angèle is the daughter of the singer Marka and of the actress Laurence Bibot. Her brother is the rapper Roméo Elvis. |
| One More Night | Michael Kiwanuka | Michael Kiwanuka is a singer-songwriter from Muswell Hill, London. Kiwanuka stated “I’ve been marketed as a Black soul singer, which is perhaps what I am. But I don’t feel like that. In my head, where I grew up, I was more used to middle-class white England. That’s what I’ve been around all my life. Also, the fact no Black people were coming to my gigs made me realize we’re more segregated than we think. Even in the kinds of music we listen to”. |
| Hey Brother (Do Unto Others) | The Family Daptone | Hey Brother (Do Unto Others) features Antibalas, The Frightnrs, Charles Bradley, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, The James Hunter Six, Lee Fields & Saun & Starr. This track is Daptone’s 100th 45rpm release and a tribute to the tragic loss of singer DAN KLEIN from ‘The FRIGHTNRS’ to ALS. ‘Hey Brother’ is a song written and originally performed by The FRIGHTNRS. |
| Next to Me | Emeli Sandé | Whether her morally righteous right-hand man and mysterious entity is a lover, her faith or the music itself is never clarified. Scottish singer songwriter Emeli Sandé got married with marine biologist Adam Gouraguine in his home nation of Montenegro on 15 September 2012. Ten years later, in September 2022, Emeli Sandé announced her engagement to female classical pianist Yoana Karemova. |
| Stop This Flame | Celeste | “Stop This Flame” was written by Celeste and Jamie Hartman, former lead of Ben’s Brother. The song samples Nina Simone’s version of “Sinnerman” and Nina Simone is credited as a co-author. |
| Sinnerman (Felix Da Housecat’s Heavenly House Mix) | Nina Simone | “Sinnerman” is an African American traditional spiritual song. Nina Simone recorded an extended 10-minute-plus version in 1965 which was credited as “Arranged by Nina Simone”. American DJ Felix da Housecat sampled it for Verve Record’s in 2003 and in 2020 Celeste track “Stop This Flame” also sample the song. |
| Feeling Alright | Joe Cocker | “Feeling Alright”, written by Dave Mason of the English rock band Traffic in 1968. Joe Cocker released his version as a single in 1969. |
| Save room | John Legend | John Legend released ”Save Room” in 2006, which he co-wrote with will.i.am. |
| Out Of Reach | Gabrielle | “Out of Reach” is written and performed by English singer Gabrielle for the 2001 romantic comedy film Bridget Jones’s Diary. The London Session Orchestra provides the string instruments on the track. |
| All Around The World | Lisa Stansfield | Lisa Stansfield co-wrote the lyrics of “All Around the World” with her former bandmates Ian Devaney and Andy Morris from Blue Zone. The song is largely influenced by American singer-songwriter Barry White. As a tribute to him, they made a spoken intro on “All Around the World” like the one on the album version of White’s “Let the Music Play”, only shorter. |
| Let The Music Play | Barry White | “Let the Music Play” written and performed by Barry White, which was actually an outtake from his previous album Just Another Way to Say I Love You and became the title song of his 1976 album. |
| I Can Hear Music | The Beach Boys | “I Can Hear Music” was written and composed by the trio Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich and Phil Spector for the Ronettes (credited as The Ronettes Featuring Veronica) in 1966. It was covered by the American rock band the Beach Boys, released on their 1969 album 20/20 with Carl Wilson on lead vocals. Brian Wilson, a Ronettes fan, wrote the 1964 hit “Don’t Worry Baby” as a response to the Ronettes 1964 hit “Be My Baby”. |
| Be my baby | THE RONETTES | Another song written and composed by the trio Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich and Phil Spector. The Ronettes’ lead singer Veronica Bennett (later known as Ronnie Spector) is the only Ronette on “Be My Baby”, their biggest hit. Phil Spector produced “Be My Baby” at Gold Star Studios with his de facto house band, later known as “the Wrecking Crew”. Sonny Bono and Cher were among the backing vocalists. |
| I Got You Babe | Sonny & Cher | “I Got You Babe” became Sonny and Cher’s biggest single, their signature song, and a defining recording of the early hippie countercultural movement Sonny Bono, a songwriter and record producer for Phil Spector, wrote the lyrics and composed the music of the song for himself and his then-wife, Cher, late at night in their basement. The session musicians The Wrecking Crew performed the instrumental track. Recalling Dylan’s bitter 1964 song “It Ain’t Me Babe” (soon to be a folk-rock hit for the Turtles), Bono wrote his own opposite sentiment: “I Got You Babe”. |
| It Ain’t Me, Babe (with June Carter Cash) | Johnny Cash | Country artist Johnny Cash covered Bob Dylan’s song ‘It Ain’t Me, Babe’ as a duet with his (future) wife June Carter. Dylan owes its inspiration to his former girlfriend Suze Rotolo. The refrain “no, no, no, it ain’t me babe” is a call-back to the Beatles’ “she loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah,” as heard on their song “She Loves You.” This was one of the songs given an electric arrangement by Dylan when he started the electric guitar concerts in 1965. |
| She Loves You | The Beatles | Lennon and McCartney started composing “She Loves You” on 26 June 1963 after a concert at the Majestic Ballroom in Newcastle upon Tyne during their tour with Roy Orbison and Gerry and the Pacemakers. Lennon, being mindful of Elvis Presley’s “All Shook Up”, wanted something equally stirring: “I don’t know where the ‘yeah yeah yeah’ came from [but] I remember when Elvis did ‘All Shook Up’ it was the first time in my life that I had heard ‘uh huh’, ‘oh yeah’, and ‘yeah yeah’ all sung in the same song”. |
| All Shook Up | Elvis Presley | “All Shook Up” by Elvis Presley from 1957 is credited to Otis Blackwell and Elvis Presley. The duet vocal on the record is by The Jordanaires first tenor Gordon Stoker. |
| Crying | Don Mclean | “Crying” is a song written by Roy Orbison and Joe Melson and covered in 1978 by Don McLean, with backing vocals from The Jordanaires. |
| You Got It | Roy Orbison | “You Got It” was written by Orbison and his Traveling Wilburys bandmates Jeff Lynne and Tom Petty. Orbison gave his only public rendition of the hit at the Diamond Awards Festival in Antwerp, Belgium, on November 19, 1988, just 17 days before his death and before the single was released. |
| She’s My Baby | Traveling Wilburys | The Traveling Wilburys were a British-American supergroup consisting of Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison and Tom Petty. Following Orbison’s death in December 1988, the Wilburys continued as a quartet and released a second album, titled Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3, in 1990. The opening song “She’s My Baby” was written by all four members of the band – George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Bob Dylan and Tom Petty – and each of them sing a portion of the track. |
| Rock ‘N Roll Is King | Electric Light Orchestra | “Rock ‘n’ Roll Is King” is a song written by Jeff Lynne and performed by Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) released as a single from the 1983 album Secret Messages. With this song the band returned to their rock roots. It features a violin solo by Mik Kaminski. |
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.
