Nancy Sinatra豪宅轉手

法蘭克辛納屈的名星女兒Nancy Sinatra南西辛納屈，最近把她比佛利山莊8000平方英呎的豪宅賣了530萬美元，1998年她買的時候只花了230萬美元。

1998年去世的法蘭克辛納屈（82歲），被譽為二十世紀最有名的流行歌手，女兒Nancy Sinatra克紹箕裘，繼承其父的影歌双棲路線，Nancy 1940年出生於紐澤西州Jersey City，但是在洛杉磯成長，是法蘭克辛納屈的第一個小孩， 1960年Nancy初次上電視，就由她父親與貓王Elvis Presley陪伴一同出場，可謂聲勢驚人，但後來她也沒丟父親的臉，唱了不少動聽的歌，在歷年暢銷歌星排行榜獲得第270名。

Nancy Sinatra的成名曲是18966年獲得冠軍的These Boots Are Made For Walking，成績最好的歌則是1967年Nancy與父親Frank合唱獲得四週冠軍的Something Stupid 。

Somethin' Stupid

I know I stand in line, until you think you have the time

To spend an evening with me

And if we go someplace to dance, I know that there's a chance

You won't be leaving with me

And afterwards we drop into a quiet little place

And have a drink or two

And then I go and spoil it all, by saying something stupid

Like: "I love you"

I can see it in your eyes, that you despise the same old lies

You heard the night before

And though it's just a line to you, for me it's true

It never seemed so right before

I practice every day to find some clever lines to say

To make the meaning come through

But then I think I'll wait until the evening gets late

And I'm alone with you

The time is right your perfume fills my head, the stars get red

And oh the night's so blue

And then I go and spoil it all, by saying something stupid

Like: "I love you"

("I love you, I love you,...")

Frankie Valli的名曲Can't Take My Eyes Off You

前The Four Seasons合唱團的主唱Frankie Valli ，2004年因他提出離婚而分居的妻子最近告上法庭，要求Frankie支付她們夫妻間打官司的費用，因為靠百老匯音樂劇Jersey Boys「澤西男孩」加上版稅的收入，聽說Frankie一個月能賺五十萬美金，他不是付不起，而且他已經每個月給他老婆三萬元。


The Four Seasons是歷年暢銷歌星與合唱團排行榜第32名的超級合唱團，Frankie Valli的歌聲也使這個團体成為1960年代英國搖滾大舉入侵美國之時，最受歡迎的美國本土合唱團之一，The Four Seasons於1955年由Frankie Valli於紐澤西州Newark領銜組成，團名用過the Variatones、the Four Lovers，1961年改名The Four Seasons（這名字選自紐澤西的一家保齡球館），它們的暢銷曲很多，如：Sherry、Big Girl Don’t Cry、Walk Like A Man、Rag Doll、December,1963（Oh What A Night）等都是冠軍曲，百老匯音樂劇Jersey Boys「澤西男孩」就是根據他們的故事改編於2005年11月6日推出的。

Frankie Valli 1965年開始個人的歌唱事業，唱出多首抒情歌曲，如：Can’t Take My Eyes Off You、My Eyes Adored You、Swearing To God與電影Grease「火爆浪子」的插曲Grease等，Frankie Valli在歷年暢消歌星排行榜後來也獲得第358名。

Frankie Valli的Can’t Take My Eyes Off You是1967年獲得過第2名的歌，在版權組織BMI所統計全美最常播出百名歌曲榜，它是第5名的歌，翻唱過這首歌的歌星與合唱團非常多，其中我覺得最好聽的有1968年混聲合唱團Lettermen曾推出的Going Out Of My Head/Can’t Take My Eyes Off You混合曲（第7名），另一首1980年代來自舊金山的舞曲合唱團Boys Town Gang在1982年翻唱的這首歌，在荷蘭得到排行榜冠軍。



Can't Take My Eyes Off You

Frankie Valli And The Four Seasons



You're just too good to be true.

Can't take my eyes off you.

You'd be like heaven to touch.

I wanna hold you so much.

At long last love has arrived.

And I thank God I'm alive.

You're just too good to be true.

Can't take my eyes off you.



Pardon the way that I stare.

There's nothing else to compare.

The sight of you leaves me weak.

There are no words left to speak.

But if you feel like I feel.

Please let me know that it's real.

You're just too good to be true.

Can't take my eyes off you.



I love you baby, and if it's quite all right,

I need you baby to warm the lonely night.

I love you baby.

Trust in me when I say:

Oh pretty baby, don't bring me down, I pray.

Oh pretty baby, now that I found you. Stay.



And let me love you, baby. Let me love you ...



I love you baby, and if it's quite allright,

I need you baby to warm the lonely night.

I love you baby.

Trust in me when I say:

Oh pretty baby, don't bring me down, I pray.

Oh pretty baby, now that I found you. Stay.



Oh pretty baby. Trust in me when I say: Oh pretty baby ...

Queen的Bohemian Rhapsody

1975年的今天（11/23）Queen的Bohemian Rhapsody這首歌在英國排行榜上獲得冠軍，而且連續9週之久，推廣這首歌的短片被認為是第一支Music Video音樂短片，但只花了五英磅的製作費，當年Queen準備推出這首歌的時候，很多唱片製作人建議他們一首5分55秒長的單曲很難成為一首暢銷曲。


Queen是一個來自英國的搖滾樂團，主唱Freddie Mercury 1946年出生於非州坦桑尼亞的桑吉巴，1991年的明天（11/24）死於愛滋病。

Queen是一個全球知名的合唱團，唱出的好歌很多，在歷年暢銷歌星與合唱團排行榜獲得119名，他們的We Will Rock You在各種体育活動的場合與電視轉播常可聽到，而原先不被看好的Bohemian Rhapsody除了在英國獲得9週冠軍外，1976年曾獲美國排行榜第9名，並被選入Grammy與搖滾樂名人堂，也是滾石雜誌500大歌曲榜第163名的歌，1992年因電影Wayne’s World「反斗智多星」選它當插曲，使重新發片的這首歌更上層樓在美國獲排行榜第2名。



Bohemian Rhapsody



Is this the real life?

Is this just fantasy?

Caught in a landslide

No escape from reality

Open your eyes

Look up to the skies and see

I'm just a poor boy (Poor boy)

I need no sympathy

Because I'm easy come, easy go

Little high, little low

Any way the wind blows

Doesn't really matter to me, to me



Mama just killed a man

Put a gun against his head

Pulled my trigger, now he's dead

Mama, life has just begun

But now I've gone and thrown it all away

Mama, ooh

Didn't mean to make you cry

If I'm not back again this time tomorrow

Carry on, carry on as if nothing really matters



Too late, my time has come

Sends shivers down my spine

Body's aching all the time

Goodbye, everybody

I've got to go

Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth

Mama, oooooooh (Anyway the wind blows)

I don't want to die

Sometimes wish I'd never been born at all



[Guitar Solo]



I see a little silhouetto of a man

Scaramouch, Scaramouch, will you do the Fandango

Thunderbolt and lightning, very, very frightening me



(Galileo) Galileo (Galileo) Galileo, Galileo Figaro

Magnifico-o-o-o-o

I'm just a poor boy nobody loves me

He's just a poor boy from a poor family

Spare him his life from this monstrosity



Easy come, easy go, will you let me go?

Bismillah! No, we will not let you go

Let him go

Bismillah! We will not let you go

Let him go

Bismillah! We will not let you go

Let me go (Will not let you go)

Let me go (Will not let you go) (Never, never, never, never)

Let me go, o, o, o, o

No, no, no, no, no, no, no

(Oh mama mia, mama mia) Mama Mia, let me go

Beelzebub has the devil put aside for me, for me, for me!



So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye

So you think you can love me and leave me to die

Oh, baby, can't do this to me, baby

Just gotta get out, just gotta get right outta here



[Guitar Solo]

(Oooh yeah, Oooh yeah)



Nothing really matters

Anyone can see

Nothing really matters

Nothing really matters to me



Any way the wind blows...

作曲者Lee Pockriss去世

1960年代早期幾首懷念的旋律如："Catch A Falling Star," "Johnny Angel," 和"Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini,"的作曲者Lee Pockriss， 11月14日在他的故鄉康乃狄克州Bridgeport去世（87歲），Lee其他的作品還有"My Little Corner Of TheWorld" 與"playground In My Mind."，他大部份的歌都與作詞人Paul Vance合作。


而前面提到的Lee Pockriss與Paul Vance合作的歌中，只有"playground In My Mind."是一首1973年獲得第2名的暢銷曲，這首歌由Clint Holmes與Paul Vance當年還是小朋友的兒子Phillp合唱，非常可愛。



Playground In My Mind

Words and Music by Paul Vance and Lee Pockriss





1)When this old world gets me down and there's no love to be found

I close my eyes and soon I find I'm in a playground in my mind

Where the children laugh and the children play

And we sing a song all day



2)My name is Michael, I've got a nickel, I've got a nickel shiny and new

I'm gonna buy me all kinds of candy, that's what I'm gonna do



3)In the wonders that I find in the playground in my mind

In a world that used to be, close your eyes and follow me

Where the children laugh and the children play

And we'll sing a song all day



4)My girl is Cindy, when we get married we're gonna have a baby or two

We're gonna let them visit their grandma, that's what we're gonna do







TAG LINES CONCURRENT WITH BACKGROUND SINGERS SINGING VERSES

TWO AND FOUR



Living in a world that I left behind

Happy little children

In the playground in my mind

See the little children

See how they play in the playground in my mind

La la la----------FADE

Patti LaBelle脾氣不小

女歌手Patti LaBelle再次挨告，這一回她是因為在紐約公寓的大廳拿半瓶水砸一位抱著一歲半小孩的母親，Patti 說她只是對這個幼稚園老師”搖動一下手臂”而已。 Patti LaBelle上一次被別人告是二十個月前在休士頓機場跟一位西點軍校的學員吵架，這位大嬸脾氣還真不小。


Patti LaBelle這位R＆B女歌手 1944年出生於賓州費城，1962 年是The Belles四重唱的團員，團中另一位Cindy Birdsong 1967年離團去加入The Supremes（Diana Ross的合唱團），1971年The Belles改叫LaBelle，1977年該團解散，Patti LaBelle走個人演唱之路，1962-2004年她一共有48首R＆B暢銷曲。

Patti LaBelle是歷年暢銷歌星排行榜第306名的成功歌手，她在流行與R＆B排行榜都獲得冠軍的歌是1975年的Lady Marmalade，這首歌獲選入葛萊美獎名人堂，在滾石雜誌500大歌曲榜獲得第479名。



LADY MARMALADE

Labelle



Hey Sister, Go Sister, Soul Sister, Go Sister (x2)

He met Marmalade down in Old New Orleans

Struttin' her stuff on the street

She said 'Hello,

hey Joe, you wanna give it a go?

'Mmm Hmmm Gitchi Gitchi Ya Ya Da Da (?)

Gitchi Gitchi Ya Ya

Here (?)

Mocca chocolata Ya Ya

Creole Lady Marmalade

Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir?

Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?

Stayed in her pool while

watch he crashing up

That boy drank all that night don't know why

Oh the last sight she went

he started to freak

Gitchi Gitchi Ya Ya Da Da

Gitchi Gitchi Ya Ya Here

Mocca chocalata Ya Ya

Creole Lady Marmalade

Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir?

Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?

Heh, Heh, Hehhhh

Seeing her skin feeling silky smooth

Colour of cafe au lait

Made the savage beast inside

Roaring till it cried More, More, More

Now he's at home doing 9 to 5

Living his brave life of lies

But when he turns off to sleep

All memories keep More, More, More

Gitchi Gitchi Ya Ya Da Da Da

Gitchi Gitchi Ya Ya here

Mocca chocolata Ya Ya

Creole Lady Marmalade

Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir?

Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?

Voulez-vous couchez avec moi ce soir?

Creole Lady Marmalade

Answer song「回應歌曲」

1961年由Barbara George所唱紅的I Know(You Don't Love Me No More)，在流行歌曲排行榜曾經獲得過第3名，這首歌當年在台灣紅得不得了，不過大概三、四年級的歌迷們才有印象了，Barbara George其實是一位黑人R＆B女歌手與作曲人，她的這首I Know (You Don't Love Me No More)在1962年就由黑人R＆B歌手Jimmy Norman唱出了所謂的answer song-"I Don't Love You No More (I Don't Care About You)"，這首歌在流行歌曲排行榜只獲得過第47名，但在黑人R＆B歌曲排行榜名次較好獲得過第21名。


Answer song「回應歌曲」最早流行於1930-1950年代的Blues藍調歌曲和R＆B節奏與藍調歌曲，但最紅的時候是1950-1960年代的鄉村歌曲，通常由一位女歌手唱一首歌回應男歌手，像貓王Elvis Presley的Are You Lonesome Tonight？（1960）就有Thelma Carpenter與Dodie Stevens唱了Yes,I’m Lonesome Tonight來回應（1961），其餘如Jim Reeves的He’ll Have To Go（1959）有Jeanne Black的He’ll Have To Stay（1960）來回應，Lesley Gore的Judy’s Turn To Cry（1963）則回應她自己同年的It’s My Party（And I’ll Cry If I Want To），當然answer song也不盡然是情歌，像Woody Guthrie的經典歌曲This Land Is Your Land（1940）回應Irving Berlin 1918年所寫1938年修正的God BlessAmerica。

早年因The End Of The World在台灣很受歡迎的鄉村歌星Skeeter Davis，就曾灌過一張Here’s The Answer的專輯唱片，其中包括Tell Laura I Love Her（Ray Peterson 1960）的回應歌Tell Tommy I Miss Him等。

Jimmy Norman這位出生於田納西州那許維爾的R＆B歌手，11月8日已於紐約市去世（74歲）。



I Know (You Don't Love Me No More)

Barbara George



I know (I know) you don't love me no more

No more (no more) no no more

And I don't want to be hurt anymore

(no more) anymore (no more)

yeah yeah I have loved so hard

everything I did was no dard

If I can't love you right baby

I don't have to love you at all

I know (I know) you don't want me no more

No more (no more) no no more

And it has to be someone else lovin you more

(no more) lovin you more (no more)

Ain't no use in me cryin now

If not for you I wouldnn't be down

Don't want me no more baby

Ain't no use in you hangin round

I know no more no more

no more no more

I know (I know) you don't want me no more

No more (no more) no no more

And it has to be someone else lovin you more

(no more) lovin you more (no more)

Ain't no use in me cryin now

If not for you I wouldn't be down

Don't want me no more baby

Ain't no use in you hangin round

I know (I know) I know (I know)

John Lennnon一顆牙賣三萬美金

已故The Beatles披頭合唱團團員John Lennon的一顆牙齒11月5日拍賣，這顆被John的前管家保留下來的齵齒，被一位加拿大的牙醫以$31,200美金標下。


John Lennon 1940年出生於英國利物浦，1980年12月8日在紐約曼哈頓遭槍擊身亡（40歲），他是The Beatles的創團團員，從1969年開始的個人演唱生涯也留下了很好的成績，在歷年暢銷歌星排行榜獲得第163名（The Beatles獲得第2名），John與第一任妻子Cynthia Powell的兒子Julian Lennon是Beatles5四名團員第一個小孩，Julian在1980年代也曾闖盪歌壇，披頭合唱團的名曲Hey Jude也因他得名。

The Beatles團員Paul Mccartney於1970年4月10日正式宣佈披頭合唱團解散，其實在1969年John Lennon就以John Lennon And The Plastic Ono Band之名推出個人的單曲Give Peace A Chance，對政治很有主見的他，以這首歌表達他對越戰進行中的當年國際局勢的看法。

John Lennon於1991年獲Grammy終生成就獎，1994年獲選入搖滾樂名人堂。

Give Peace A Chance 1969年曾獲第14名。



Give Peace A Chance

John Lennon And The Plastic Ono Band



Two, one two three four

Ev'rybody's talking about

Bagism, Shagism, Dragism, Madism, Ragism, Tagism

This-ism, that-ism, is-m, is-m, is-m.



All we are saying is give peace a chance

All we are saying is give peace a chance



C'mon

Ev'rybody's talking about Ministers,

Sinisters, Banisters and canisters

Bishops and Fishops and Rabbis and Pop eyes,

And bye bye, bye byes.



All we are saying is give peace a chance

All we are saying is give peace a chance



Let me tell you now

Ev'rybody's talking about

Revolution, evolution, masturbation,

flagellation, regulation, integrations,

meditations, United Nations,

Congratulations.



Ev'rybody's talking about

John and Yoko, Timmy Leary, Rosemary,

Tommy Smothers, Bobby Dylan, Tommy Cooper,

Derek Taylor, Norman Mailer,

Alan Ginsberg, Hare Krishna,

Hare, Hare Krishna

祝Andy Williams早日康復

 根據媒体報導Andy Williams因為侵入性的膀胱癌，10月31 日開始在休士頓的一所醫院進行三週的化療，Andy所有的密蘇里Branson劇場表示：因為健康因素Andy今年恐怕無法在聖誕節的現場節目現身，Andy Williams今年高齡84歲。


Andy Williams 1927年出生於愛阿華州Wall Lake，;最早與自家兄弟合組過四重唱，也與Bing Crosby平克勞斯貝及諧星Kay Thompson合作過，1952年開始個人的演唱生涯，除歌唱外他也主持NBC的電視節目（1962-1967），Donny Osmond還是小朋友的時候與哥哥們的The Osmonds合唱團，就從參加他的節目演出開始走紅，後來葛萊美獎頒獎大會也都請他主持，Andy Williams暢銷曲很多，在台灣也因無線台播過他的節目而極受歡迎，前幾年年近80 的他曾來台北在小巨蛋開過演唱會，他在歷年暢銷歌星排行榜上是第52名的巨星，被譽為美國最佳抒情歌手。

Andy Williams有一首很有意義但未進過排行榜的歌May Each Day，就以這首歌祝福他早日康復了！



May Each Day



Artist: Andy Williams

Words and Music by Mort Green and George Wyle





May each day in the week be a good day

May the Lord always watch over you

And may all of your hopes turn to wishes

And may all of your wishes come true



May each day in the month be a good day

May you make friends with each one you meet

And may all of your daydreams be mem'ries

And may all of your mem'ries be sweet



The weeks turn to months and the months into years

There'll be sadness and joy, there'll be laughter and tears

But one thing I pray to heaven above

May each of your days be a day full of love



May each day in the year be a good day

May each dawn find you happy and gay

And may all of your days be as lovely

As the one you shared with me today



May each day of your life be a good day

And good night.

Lynn Anderson母親過世

鄉村歌曲作曲人與歌星Liz Anderson10月31日去世（80歲），Liz Anderson是一位成功的鄉村歌手，1967年曾獲兩項葛萊美獎提名，其中之一是她自己寫的"Mama Spank"提名「最佳女聲演唱獎」，另 一首歌是她與Bobby Bare和Norma Jean三人合唱的"The Game of Triangles"提名「最佳鄉村歌曲合唱團獎」，這二首歌都獲得鄉村歌曲排行榜前5名，而Liz Anderson也替Merle Haggard寫過暢銷曲"All My Friends Are Gonna Be Strangers"和"I'm a Lonesome Fugitive"，後來Merle Haggard因而把他的樂隊取名"The Strangers"。


Liz Anderson 1965年因試唱帶獲RCA製作人也是名吉它手Chet Atkins賞識而與RCA簽約，除了前面介紹的二首歌外，她其它暢銷曲還有"Go Now Pay Later" (1966), "The Wife of the Party" (1967), "Tiny Tears" (1967), "Thanks A Lot For Tryin' Anyway" (1968) (一首非她自己寫的歌), 與"Husband Hunting" (1970).。

Liz Anderson的先生是Casey Anderson，他們只有一個女兒，就是1970年以Rose Garden一曲成名的Lynn Anderson，1966-1989年Lynn Anderson有60首歌進入鄉村歌曲排行榜，台灣樂友較少機會聽鄉村歌曲，但對Rose Garden這首歌應不陌生，這首歌在1970年曾得到流行歌曲排行榜第3名，也是BMI全美最常播出100首歌曲排行榜第99名的歌。



Rose Garden



I beg your pardon,

I never promised you a rose garden.

Along with the sunshine,

There's gotta be a little rain sometimes.

When you take, you gotta give, so live and let live,

Or let go.

I beg your pardon,

I never promised you a rose garden.



I could promise you things like big diamond rings,

But you don't find roses growin' on stalks of clover.

So you better think it over.

Well, if sweet-talkin' you could make it come true,

I would give you the world right now on a silver platter,

But what would it matter?

So smile for a while and let's be jolly:

Love shouldn't be so melancholy.

Come along and share the good times while we can.



I beg your pardon,

I never promised you a rose garden.

Along with the sunshine,

There's gotta be a little rain sometimes.



Instrumental break.



I beg your pardon,

I never promised you a rose garden.



I could sing you a tune or promise you the moon,

But if that's what it takes to hold you,

I'd just as soon let you go, but there's one thing I want you to know.

You better look before you leap, still waters run deep,

And there won't always be someone there to pull you out,

And you know what I'm talkin' about.

So smile for a while and let's be jolly:

Love shouldn't be so melancholy.

Come along and share the good times while we can.



I beg your pardon,

I never promised you a rose garden.

Along with the sunshine,

There's gotta be a little rain sometimes.