民歌手Phoebe Snow病故

以1975排行榜第5名暢銷曲Poetry Man成名的民歌手、作曲人、吉它手Phoebe Snow，4月26日因腦溢血併發去世（58歲），Phoebe Snow 本名Phoebe Laub，出生於紐約，她的藝名來自一個廣告裡的角色，起初她在紐約著名的格林威治村唱民歌，因而被一家唱片公司發掘，除了成名曲Poetry Man之外，她還和Paul Simon 合唱了Gone At Last在1975年獲得過第23名，因為和發掘她的Shelter唱片公司公司發生糾紛，那首歌也是她之後在美國唯一的Top40流行歌曲，Phoebe把她的生活重心都放在照顧她1975年次的大腦受損的女兒上，直到2007年女兒去世為止，Phoebe Snow持續表演到2010年元月生病，當時她正準備出一張新專輯唱片，她被安排在一個醫療中心醫治，但昏迷後從來沒有真正恢復。


Phoebe Snow於1975年被提名葛拉美最佳新人，她幫NBC電視影集A Different World唱的主題歌與一家咖啡公司唱的廣告歌的招牌名句Celebrate the moments of your life都將永遠讓人懷念。

Poetry Man

Phoebe Snow

(P. Snow)



And ooh yeah-yeah-yeah

Ooh yeah



You make me laugh

'Cause your eyes they light the night

They look right through me, la la la la

You bashful boy

You're hiding something sweet

Please give it to me yeah, to me



Oh-oh, talk to me some more

You don't have to go

You're the Poetry Man

You make things all rhyme, yeah-yeah



And ooh yeah-yeah-yeah

Ooh yeah



You are a genie

And all I ask for is your smile

Each time I rub a lamp, la la la la

When I am with you

I have a giggling teen-age crush

Then I'm a-a sultry vamp, yeah, a sultry vamp



Woah-oh, talk to me some more

You don't have to go

'Cause you're the Poetry Man

You make things all right, yeah-yeah



And ooh yeah-yeah-yeah

Ooh yeah







Talk to me some more

You don't have to go

You're the Poetry Man

And you make things all right



And ooh yeah-yeah-yeah

Ooh yeah



So once again

It's time to say so long

And so recall the law of life, la la la la

You're goin' home now

Oh, home's that place somewhere you go each day

To see your wife, yeah-yeah-yeah, to see your wife



Woah-oh, talk to me some more

You know that you don't have to go

You're the Poetry Man

You make things all rhyme, yeah



Woah-oh, talk to me some more

You know that you don't have to go

You're the Poetry Man

You make things all right