Charlene -I've Never Been to Me

 今天介紹的 One Hit Wonder是Charlene 所唱的1982年獲得過3週第3名的I’ve Never Been To Me.

 Charlene 本名Charlene D’Angelo 1950年6月1日出生於加州好萊塢,是一位流行和R&B 歌手,她僅有這一首Top 40 的歌。

《I've Never Been to Me》是一首民謠，由 Ronald N. Miller和Kenneth Hirsch創作，並透過美國歌手Charlene的錄製發行而流行。儘管該曲於1977 年首次推出勉強登上Billboard Hot 100 單曲榜，但1982 年重新發行時，它在Billboard 排名第 3，並為她在澳大利亞贏得了金唱片認證，並在澳大利亞連續六週保持第一名的位置。此外，這首歌在加拿大（4週）、愛爾蘭（3週）和英國的排行榜上名列前茅。 這首歌還在挪威、比利時、紐西蘭和荷蘭獲得了前10名的勝利，並成為Motown唱片首個由 白人女獨唱歌手進入前10名的單曲。

 

(2) CHARLENE (I've Never Been To Me) 2023 Remaster - YouTube

 

 

I've Never Been to Me

 作詞/作曲：Kenneth Hirsch / Ronald N. Miller

 

Hey lady, you lady
Cursing at your life
You're a discontented mother
And a regimented wife
I 've no doubt
You dream about the things you'll never do
But I wish someone had a talk to me like I wanna talk to you

Ooh, I've been to Georgia and California and anywhere I could run
Took the hand of a preacher man
And we made love in the sun
But I ran out of places and friendly faces
Because I had to be free

I've been to paradise but I've never been to me...

Please lady please lady
Don't just walk away
'Cause I have this need to tell you
Why I'm all alone today
I can see so much of me
Still living in your eyes

Won't you share a part
Of a weary heart that has lived a million lives

Ooh, I've been to Nice and the Isle of Greece
When I sipped champagne on a yacht
I moved like Harlow in Monte Carlo
And showed them what I've got

I've been undressed by kings
And I've seen some things that a woman ain't s'posed to see
I've been to paradise but I've never been to me...

Hey, you know what paradise is?
It's a lie
A fantasy we created about people and places
As we like them to be
But you know what truth is?

It's that little baby you're holding
and it's that man you fought with this morning
The same one you are gonna make love to tonight
That's truth that's love

Sometimes I've been to crying for unborn children
That might have made me complete
But I, I took the sweet life
I never knew I'd be bitter from the sweet

I spent my life exploring
The subtle whoring
That costs too much to be free
Hey lady I've been to paradise
But I've never been to me...

I've been to paradise - never been to me
(I've been to Georgia and California, and anywhere I could run)
I've been to paradise - never been to me
(I've been to Nice and the isle of Greece
While I sipped champagne on a yacht)
I've been to paradise - never been to me