From his 1983 album, Cut Loose. The song never charted but the album reached #135 on Billboards album chart on January 14, 1984. Rodgers played all of the instruments on the entire album. I remember seeing the music video on MTV but unfortunately, I could not find the video on Youtube I could only find the song.
Unfortunately, I could not find the lyrics anywhere.
From his 1994 album, Bat Out of Hell II, Back Into Hell. The song reached #25 on Billboards Hot 100 chart on February 26, 1994. The music video stars a very young Angelina Jolie.
From songfacts.
This song, and the entire Bad For Good album, was originally slated for Meat Loaf. The tracks were put down using most of the same musicians and studios used on Bat Out of Hell (why mess with success?) but when it came time to record his vocals, Meat Loaf couldn’t sing. The problem seemed to be both mental and physical, but it was dastardly, requiring grueling therapy. With the album ready to go sans vocals, Steinman decided to sing on it himself, although on this track he used a Canadian singer named Rory Dodd, who provided backing on Bat Out of Hell and would later do the “turn around, bright eyes” part on “Total Eclipse Of The Heart,” as lead vocalist.
“Rock And Roll Dreams Come Through” was the only hit from the album, reaching #32 in the US. It was also Steinman’s only Hot 100 entry as a solo artist.
When Steinman and Meat Loaf teamed up for the 1993 album Bat Out Of Hell II: Back Into Hell, it was recorded as intended, with Loaf on lead. This rendition was more successful, making #13 US and also charting in the UK at #11.
Rock And Roll Dreams Come Through
The sitcom premiered in 1969 and ran from 1969-1974. 108 episodes were made. It was a different show every week with different actors and actresses always having to do with relationships in one way or another. The actual first show of Happy Days was part of Love American Style and it is now considered to be the pilot episode. The first season the shows theme song was performed by the Cowsills. At the start of the second season the same song was sung by the Ron Hicklin Singers they were also the backing vocals for the Partridge Family.
From Wikipedia.
This second version of the theme was carried on for the remainder of the series, as well as on most episodes prepared for syndication. The title is loosely derived from a 1961 Italian comedy film called Divorzio all’italiana (Divorce, Italian Style), which received Academy Award nominations in 1962 for Best…
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When I was looking at msjadeli post for Song Lyric Sunday this song popped into my head. So this is my bonus contribution to Song Lyric Sunday for Jim Adams blog.
From his 1974 album Verities and Balderdash. The song did not chart.
From songfacts.
This was based on a true story about an accident in Scranton, Pennsylvania where a driver lost control of a truck full of bananas he was delivering. He was killed in the crash, and bananas were strewn all over the place. Sandy Chapin, who was married to Harry from 1968 until he was killed in a car accident in 1981, doesn’t like this song at all. She explains how it came about: “That song morphed. It had a life of its own. Originally it was a poem that Harry wrote, it was just words on a page. And early on he was doing different kinds of musical performances with his father, and also his brothers who were in college at the time. So there was a limited time for them to perform. But he did it as a spoken song. And then I guess after the Village Gate days, and the beginning of the contract with Electra, he was going through notebooks and looking for material. He decided to put music to it. And I think the song developed a life of its own from audience reaction. It was a serious poem to begin with on the society’s preoccupation with numbers. You have your drivers license and your social security and your credit card, and on and on and on and on. You’re just made up of numbers. But it also was a story – a true story that was told to him while he was on a Greyhound bus ride. It’s real. The widow still lives in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The original poem started from a preoccupation with numbers, and then it got to be a kind of performance piece that was kind of tragicomedy. Very difficult, I thought.” (Read more in our interview with Sandy Chapin.)
30,000 Pounds of Bananas
This is my contribution to Song Lyric Sunday for Jim Adams blog. This week’s theme…Bus/Truck/Lorry.
From their 1969 album, Revelation: Revolution 69. The song reached #73 on Billboards Hot 100 chart on August 3, 1968.
Never Going Back
From their 1979 album, Nine Lives. Unfortunately, the song never charted. It’s one of my favorites from the band. Bass player Bruce Hall sings lead and also wrote the song.
Back On The Road Again
From their 1985 album, Standing on The Edge. The song reached #44 on Billboards Hot 100 chart on October 12, 1985, and #8 on Billboards Hot Rock Tracks.
From Wikipedia.
“Tonight It’s You” is a song by American rock band Cheap Trick, released in 1985 as the lead single from their eighth studio album Standing on the Edge. It was written by Rick Nielsen, Robin Zander, Jon Brant and Mark Radice, and produced by Jack Douglas.
Upon release, Billboard described the song as “power pop produced to Who-ish proportions”. In a review of the album, Rolling Stone commented: “”Tonight It’s You” is gorgeous Top Forty mischief, reminiscent of the Raspberries’ 1973 neo-operatic nugget, “Overnight Sensation“. Zigzagging through the Sixties British Invasion like a runaway train, Cheap Trick plows into Rubber Soul folk-pop, jingle-jangle Merseybeat and orchestral guitar metal recalling the Move’s classic 1970 album, Shazam. Cascading acoustic guitars decorate axeman Rick Nielsen’s wall of monster fuzz while singer Robin Zander wails in front of sheetmetal harmonies. The cumulative effect is like three or four hit songs vacuum-packed into one.
Tonight It’s You
This song is one of the few Cinderella songs where lead singer Tom Keifer does not sing in his famous rough voice. His trademark voice makes an appearance for only a few lines.
Heartache can be found throughout the Cinderella catalog. On this song, Tom Keifer evokes the train as both the memory of his lost love and his means for escape. He tells us that his heart has been shattered several times, and it’s the sum of these experiences that work their way into these songs. “For me, the emotions are more cumulative or an average of a lifetime,” he said.
Heartbreak Station
From their 1983 album, Headhunter. The song reached #21 on Billboards Mainstream Rock chart in July of 1983.
From All Music Guide.
A typical mid-’80s Euro-metal band from Switzerland, Krokus formed back in the ’70s as a symphonic rock outfit modeled on the likes of Yes and ELP, switching to metal when the band’s former direction proved unprofitable. The hard rock lineup included Maltese-born vocalist Marc Storace, guitarists Fernando Von Arb and Tommy Kiefer, bassist Chris Von Rohr (originally the lead vocalist), and drummer Freddy Steady. Kiefer was replaced by roadie Mark Kohler in 1982. Their brand of metal relies heavily on AC/DC and the Scorpions, with simple, radio-friendly riffs and repeatedly chanted choruses. Their biggest hit was a cover of Alice Cooper’s “School’s Out.” The band has undergone several personnel changes, and their career started to go downhill in 1985. ~ Steve Huey, All Music Guide
Screaming in The Night
The song peaked at #1 on Billboards Hot Country song chart and #3 on Billboards Hot 100 chart on March 19, 1961.
From wideopencountry
Due to an error in the recording process, Marty Robbins’ 1961 single “Don’t Worry” impacted more than the country and pop charts at the time. Before the Beatles made it to the States, inspiring teenagers across the country to form bands, an otherwise typical love ballad by Robbins accidentally introduced the listening public to electric guitar “fuzz” effects.
Grady Martin, a rockabilly and county legend and A-list session musician, was the secret weapon behind Robbins’ “El Paso,” Loretta Lynn’s “Coal Miner’s Daughter” and other all-time great recordings. On “Don’t Worry,” he played six-string bass. A relatively tame song sounds way different when Martin’s solo begins about the 1:25 mark. He’d run his instrument through a faulty mixing console. As a result, it sounded like he’d stirred up a nest of metallic hornets.
Apparently, Martin didn’t care for the effect. Producer Don Law disagreed, leaving the unusual wrinkle in the final cut. The decision didn’t hinder the song’s success. In addition to becoming Robbins’ seventh number one country hit, it ranked as high as third on the pop chart.
Whatever hesitations Martin may have had about guitar fuzz must not have lasted. He built a whole song around the effect, fittingly titled “The Fuzz,” and recorded it with his band the Slewfoot Five. It was released the same year as “Don’t Worry.”
Session engineer Glen Snoddy also took advantage of the situation. He hung onto the faulty mixing channel and made it available to other artists. By 1962, Snoddy helped sell the idea for a fuzz pedal to the Gibson Guitar Corporation.
The effect appeared in a handful of future country songs, including Carl Butler’s “Wonder Drug,” Kay Adam’s “Little Pink Mac“ and most famously, Merle Haggard’s “The Running Kind.” But for the most part, it’s associated with rock music, especially after the Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards used it to simulate the sound of a horn on 1965’s “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction.”
Don’t Worry
Don’t worry ’bout me, it’s all over now
Though I may be blue, I’ll manage somehow
Love can’t be explained, can’t be controlled
One day it’s warm, next day it’s cold
Don’t pity me, ’cause I’m feeling blue
Don’t be ashamed it might happen to you
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, love, kiss me
One time then go love, I’ll understand
Don’t worry ’bout me
Sweet, sweet, sweet, love will I want you to be
As happy as I when you love me
I’ll never forget you your sweet memory it’s all over now
Don’t worry bout me
When one heart tells one heart, one heart goodbye
One heart is free, one heart will cry
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh sweet, sweet baby, sweet baby, sweet
It’s all right, don’t worry ’bout me…
Free Fallin' 