Sony/ATV’s "Musical Notes" #53 - Dance Hits/George Harrison
Feb 25, 2010
A fortnightly newsletter highlighting some of the many classic songs in the Sony/ATV Music Publishing catalog.
From Alan Warner, Creative Consultant
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SONY/ATV’s DANCE MARATHON!
32 solid gold dance hits - from the years 1980-2002
Sony/ATV songs have been shaking up Billboard’s Hot Dance Club chart for some considerable time now – and current floorfillers include TELEPHONE (Daniels/Knowles/Franklin/Jerkins/Germanotta) by Lady Gaga Featuring Beyoncé and DID IT AGAIN (LO HECHO ESTA HECHO) (Mebarak Ripoll/Williams) by Shakira.
Apart from the obvious synch use possibilities, the songs in the following list offer some great suggestions for covers particularly now that the dance market is more international than ever. Remembering how Madonna picked up a song by Dutch DJ Fedde Le Grand and worked it in a medley with one of her own compositions, I suggest choosing a group of these and pitching them to certain contemporary artists.
BACK TO LIFE (Beresford Romeo)
By Soul II Soul (Virgin/EMI: 1989) US #1 Dance
BOOTYLICIOUS (Stevie Nicks/Beyonce Knowles/Rob Fusari/Falonte Moore)
By Destiny’s Child (Columbia/Sony: 2001) US #13 Dance
(“Bootylicious” is the song which sampled “Edge Of Seventeen” by Stevie Nicks)
CHIME (Paul Hartnoll)
By Orbital (ffrr: 1992) US #23 Dance
COME ON HOME (Cyndi Lauper/Jan Pulsford)
By Cyndi Lauper (Epic/Sony: 1995) US #11 Dance (in ’96)
FANTASTIC VOYAGE (Norman Bievers/Tiemeyer McCain/
Marvin Craig/Fred Lewis/Fred Alexander/Thomas Selby/Otis Stokes/Stephen Shockley/Mark Wodd)
By Lakeside (Solar/EMI: 1980) US #12 Dance (in ’81)
FIVE FATHOMS (Ben Watt)
By Everything But The Girl (Atlantic/WMG: 2000) US #1 Dance
THE FUTURE OF THE FUTURE (STAY GOLD) (Ben Watt/Deep Dish)
By Deep Dish with Everything But The Girl (Atlantic/WMG: 1998) US #1 Dance
GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN (Robert Hazard)
By Cyndi Lauper (Portrait/Sony: 1984) US #1 Dance
GOTTA GET THRU THIS (Daniel Bedingfield)
By Daniel Bedingfield (Island/Universal: 2002) US #1 Dance
HALCYON (Paul Hartnoll/Phil Hartnoll/Edward Barton)
By Orbital (ffrr: 2992) US #33 Dance (in ’93)
IN YOUR LIFE (Melanie Thornton/Gerd Saraf/Donald McCray)
By La Bouche (Logic: 2003) US #9 Dance
INDEPENDENT WOMEN – Part 1 (Beyonce Knowles/Mark Rooney/
Samuel Barnes/Jean Claude Olivier)
By Destiny’s Child (Columbia/Sony: 2000) US #1 Dance
IT’S NO CRIME (Kenneth Edmonds/L.A. Reid/Daryl Simmons)
By Babyface (Solar/EMI: 1989) US #5 Dance
JAZZIE’S GROOVE (Beresford Romeo/Nellee Hooper)
By Soul II Soul (Virgin/EMI: 1990) US #3 Dance
KEEP IT COMIN’ (Keith Sweat/Joe Carter/Lionel Job/Kevin Scott/Dwight Wyatt)
By Keith Sweat (Elektra/WMG: 1992) US #25 Dance
KEEP ON MOVIN’ (Beresford Romeo)
By Soul II Soul (Virgin/EMI: 1989) US #1 Dance
A LITTLE RESPECT (Andrew Bell/Vince Clarke)
By Erasure (Sire/WMG: 1988) US #2 Dance
LULLABY OF CLUBLAND (Ben Watt)
By Everything But The Girl (Atlantic/WMG: 2000) US #3 Dance
MAKE YOU SWEAT (Keith Sweat/Tommy Gatling/Bobby Wooten)
By Keith Sweat (Vinentertainment: 1990) US #5 Dance
OPERATOR (Reggie Calloway/Belinda Lipscomb/Boaz Watson/Vincent Calloway)
By Midnight Star (Solar/EMI: 1984) US #15 Dance (in ’85)
PLANETS OF THE UNIVERSE (Stevie Nicks)
By Stevie Nicks (Reprise/WMG: 2001) US #1 Dance
SCIENTIFIC LOVE (Kenneth Gant/Belinda Lipscomb/Boaz Watson/Vincent Calloway/Melvin Gentry)
By Midnight Star (Solar/EMI: 1985) US #19 Dance
SHE BOP (Cyndi Lauper/Rick Chertoff/Gary Corbett/Stephen Lunt)
By Cyndi Lauper (Portrait/Sony: 1984) US #10 Dance
SURVIVOR (Beyonce Knowles/Mathew Knowles/Anthony Dent)
By Destiny’s Child (Columbia/Sony: 2001) US #3 Dance
TEMPERAMENTAL (Ben Watt)
By Everything But The Girl (Atlantic/WMG: 2000) US #1 Dance
UNDERNEATH YOUR CLOTHES (Shakira Mebarak/Lester Mendez)
By Shakira (Epic/Sony: 2002) US #5 Dance
VICTIM OF LOVE (Andrew Bell/Vince Clarke)
By Erasure (Sire/WMG: 1987) US #1 Dance
WET MY WHISTLE (Reggie Calloway)
By Midnight Star (Solar/EMI: 1983) US #15 Dance
WHENEVER, WHEREVER (Shakira Mebarak/Tim Mitchell/Luis Fernando Ochoa)
By Shakira (Epic/Sony: 2002) US #3 Dance
WISH I DIDN’T MISS YOU (Ivan Matias/Andrea Martin/Leon Huff/Gene McFadden/John Whitehead)
By Angie Stone (J/Sony: 2002) US #1 Dance
WRONG (Ben Watt/Tracey Thorn)
By Everything But The Girl (Atlantic/WMG: 1996) US #1 Dance
YOU DON’T KNOW (Cyndi Lauper/Jan Pulsford)
By Cyndi Lauper (Epic/Sony: 1997) US #16 Dance
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Grammy®-winning Kurt Elling
IT’S EASY TO REMEMBER (Rodgers/Hart)
By Kurt Elling (Concord)
Contemporary jazz vocalist Kurt Elling recently won a Grammy® for his critically-acclaimed 2009 album: “Dedicated To You: Kurt Elling Sings The Music Of Coltrane & Hartman”. On one track, the Sony/ATV standard “It’s Easy To Remember”, he narrates some lines from this classic lyric and then tells what he calls “a poetic jazz memory” about musician John Coltrane and singer Johnny Hartman traveling to their recording session.
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ONLY A NORTHERN SONG
The early compositions…
…of George Harrison
A dozen songs written by George Harrison during the glory days of The Beatles. Critic Mat Snow writes “For my money, the music of George Harrison is most compelling when dwelling in those strange shadows of elusive regret and longing, even fear: songs like “If I Needed Someone”, “It’s All Too Much” and “Blue Jay Way”.
BLUE JAY WAY (Harrison)
“There's a fog upon L.A.
And my friends have lost their way
We'll be over soon they said
Now they've lost themselves instead.
Please don't be long please don't you be very long
Please don't be long or I may be asleep”
By The Beatles in their 1967 TV movie “Magical Mystery Tour”.
“Blue Jay Way” is the Los Angeles street on which George and his then-wife Patti Boyd rented a house in 1967.
Other versions incl: Siouxsie & The Banshees (Sanctuary)
I NEED YOU (Harrison)
“You don't realize how much I need you.
Love you all the time and never leave you.
Please come on back to me.
I'm lonely as can be. I need you.”
By The Beatles on their 1965 “Help” soundtrack album.
Other versions incl: Tom Petty on the 2002 “Concert For George”
live tribute album (Warner Bros/WMG) & DVD.
I WANT TO TELL YOU (Harrison)
“I want to tell you
I feel hung up but I don't know why,
I don't mind
I could wait forever, I've got time”
By The Beatles on their 1966 album “Revolver”.
Other versions include: Jeff Lynne on the “Concert For George” album, Ted Nugent (Epic), The Smithereens (Koch)
IF I NEEDED SOMEONE (Harrison)
“If I needed someone to love
You're the one that I'd be thinking of
If I needed someone.
If I had some more time to spend
Then I guess I'd be with you my friend
If I needed someone”
By The Beatles on both their 1965 “Rubber Soul” album and on the American album “Yesterday…And Today” in 1966.
By The Hollies (UK Parlophone/EMI: 1965) UK #20
Other versions incl: Eric Clapton (“Concert for George” album), Roger McGuinn (April First), Livingston Taylor (Capricorn), Michael Hedges (Windham Hill), The Cryan’ Shames (Columbia), Nellie McKay (Razor & Tie), Hugh Masekela (MGM/Universal)
Plus a version by George Harrison himself on his “Live In Japan” album on Dark Horse in 1992.
THE INNER LIGHT (Harrison)
“Without going out of my door
I can know all things on earth
Without looking out of my window
I could know the ways of heaven
The farther one travels
The less one knows
The less one really knows”
By The Beatles, released as the B side of “Lady Madonna” in ’68.
Other versions incl. Jeff Lynne (“Concert For George” album)
NB: “The Inner Light” and “Within You, Without You” are fine examples of George’s use of Indian instrumentations.
IT’S ALL TOO MUCH (Harrison)
“It's all too much for me to take
The love that's shining all around you
And everywhere, it's what you make
For us to take, it's all too much”
By The Beatles on the soundtrack of their 1968 animated feature film “Yellow Submarine” and on its soundtrack album.
Other versions incl: Steve Hillage (Virgin/EMI), Wayne Kramer (Koch)
LOVE YOU TO (Harrison)
By The Beatles on their 1966 album “Revolver”.
ONLY A NORTHERN SONG (Harrison)
By The Beatles on the soundtrack of their 1968 animated feature film “Yellow Submarine” and on its soundtrack album.
TAXMAN (Harrison)
“Let me tell you how it will be,
There’s one for you, nineteen for me,
‘Cause I’m the Taxman,
Yeah, I’m the Taxman.
Should five per cent appear too small,
Be thankful I don’t take it all.
‘Cos I’m the Taxman,
Yeah, I’m the Taxman”
By The Beatles on their 1966 album “Revolver”.
Other versions incl: Black Oak Arkansas (Atco/WMG),
Tom Petty (“Concert For George” album), Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings (Fuel 2000), Plus a version by George Harrison himself on his “Live In Japan” album on Dark Horse in 1992.
THINK FOR YOURSELF (Harrison)
“Do what you want to do
And go where you're going to
Think for yourself
'Cause I won't be there with you”
By The Beatles on their 1965 album “Rubber Soul”.
Other versions incl: The Yonder Mountain String Band (Razor & Tie)
WITHIN YOU, WITHOUT YOU (Harrison)
“And the time will come when you see we’re all one
And life flows on within you and without you”
By The Beatles on their 1967 “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” album.
Other versions incl: Patti Smith (Columbia/Sony)
YOU LIKE ME TOO MUCH (Harrison)
Though you've gone away this morning,
You'll be back again tonight,
Telling me there'll be no next time
If I just don't treat you right,
You'll never leave me and you know it's true,
'Cause you like me too much and I like you."
By The Beatles on the 1965 American album “Beatles VI” and on the “Help” album” that same year.
Click Here for Associated Playlist
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US chart positions courtesy of Joel Whitburn & Billboard Magazine
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Here is a link to a complete list of earlier “Musical Notes” bulletins:
Musical Notes Archive
2/10
Feb 25, 2010
A fortnightly newsletter highlighting some of the many classic songs in the Sony/ATV Music Publishing catalog.
From Alan Warner, Creative Consultant
***************
SONY/ATV’s DANCE MARATHON!
32 solid gold dance hits - from the years 1980-2002
Sony/ATV songs have been shaking up Billboard’s Hot Dance Club chart for some considerable time now – and current floorfillers include TELEPHONE (Daniels/Knowles/Franklin/Jerkins/Germanotta) by Lady Gaga Featuring Beyoncé and DID IT AGAIN (LO HECHO ESTA HECHO) (Mebarak Ripoll/Williams) by Shakira.
Apart from the obvious synch use possibilities, the songs in the following list offer some great suggestions for covers particularly now that the dance market is more international than ever. Remembering how Madonna picked up a song by Dutch DJ Fedde Le Grand and worked it in a medley with one of her own compositions, I suggest choosing a group of these and pitching them to certain contemporary artists.
BACK TO LIFE (Beresford Romeo)
By Soul II Soul (Virgin/EMI: 1989) US #1 Dance
BOOTYLICIOUS (Stevie Nicks/Beyonce Knowles/Rob Fusari/Falonte Moore)
By Destiny’s Child (Columbia/Sony: 2001) US #13 Dance
(“Bootylicious” is the song which sampled “Edge Of Seventeen” by Stevie Nicks)
CHIME (Paul Hartnoll)
By Orbital (ffrr: 1992) US #23 Dance
COME ON HOME (Cyndi Lauper/Jan Pulsford)
By Cyndi Lauper (Epic/Sony: 1995) US #11 Dance (in ’96)
FANTASTIC VOYAGE (Norman Bievers/Tiemeyer McCain/
Marvin Craig/Fred Lewis/Fred Alexander/Thomas Selby/Otis Stokes/Stephen Shockley/Mark Wodd)
By Lakeside (Solar/EMI: 1980) US #12 Dance (in ’81)
FIVE FATHOMS (Ben Watt)
By Everything But The Girl (Atlantic/WMG: 2000) US #1 Dance
THE FUTURE OF THE FUTURE (STAY GOLD) (Ben Watt/Deep Dish)
By Deep Dish with Everything But The Girl (Atlantic/WMG: 1998) US #1 Dance
GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN (Robert Hazard)
By Cyndi Lauper (Portrait/Sony: 1984) US #1 Dance
GOTTA GET THRU THIS (Daniel Bedingfield)
By Daniel Bedingfield (Island/Universal: 2002) US #1 Dance
HALCYON (Paul Hartnoll/Phil Hartnoll/Edward Barton)
By Orbital (ffrr: 2992) US #33 Dance (in ’93)
IN YOUR LIFE (Melanie Thornton/Gerd Saraf/Donald McCray)
By La Bouche (Logic: 2003) US #9 Dance
INDEPENDENT WOMEN – Part 1 (Beyonce Knowles/Mark Rooney/
Samuel Barnes/Jean Claude Olivier)
By Destiny’s Child (Columbia/Sony: 2000) US #1 Dance
IT’S NO CRIME (Kenneth Edmonds/L.A. Reid/Daryl Simmons)
By Babyface (Solar/EMI: 1989) US #5 Dance
JAZZIE’S GROOVE (Beresford Romeo/Nellee Hooper)
By Soul II Soul (Virgin/EMI: 1990) US #3 Dance
KEEP IT COMIN’ (Keith Sweat/Joe Carter/Lionel Job/Kevin Scott/Dwight Wyatt)
By Keith Sweat (Elektra/WMG: 1992) US #25 Dance
KEEP ON MOVIN’ (Beresford Romeo)
By Soul II Soul (Virgin/EMI: 1989) US #1 Dance
A LITTLE RESPECT (Andrew Bell/Vince Clarke)
By Erasure (Sire/WMG: 1988) US #2 Dance
LULLABY OF CLUBLAND (Ben Watt)
By Everything But The Girl (Atlantic/WMG: 2000) US #3 Dance
MAKE YOU SWEAT (Keith Sweat/Tommy Gatling/Bobby Wooten)
By Keith Sweat (Vinentertainment: 1990) US #5 Dance
OPERATOR (Reggie Calloway/Belinda Lipscomb/Boaz Watson/Vincent Calloway)
By Midnight Star (Solar/EMI: 1984) US #15 Dance (in ’85)
PLANETS OF THE UNIVERSE (Stevie Nicks)
By Stevie Nicks (Reprise/WMG: 2001) US #1 Dance
SCIENTIFIC LOVE (Kenneth Gant/Belinda Lipscomb/Boaz Watson/Vincent Calloway/Melvin Gentry)
By Midnight Star (Solar/EMI: 1985) US #19 Dance
SHE BOP (Cyndi Lauper/Rick Chertoff/Gary Corbett/Stephen Lunt)
By Cyndi Lauper (Portrait/Sony: 1984) US #10 Dance
SURVIVOR (Beyonce Knowles/Mathew Knowles/Anthony Dent)
By Destiny’s Child (Columbia/Sony: 2001) US #3 Dance
TEMPERAMENTAL (Ben Watt)
By Everything But The Girl (Atlantic/WMG: 2000) US #1 Dance
UNDERNEATH YOUR CLOTHES (Shakira Mebarak/Lester Mendez)
By Shakira (Epic/Sony: 2002) US #5 Dance
VICTIM OF LOVE (Andrew Bell/Vince Clarke)
By Erasure (Sire/WMG: 1987) US #1 Dance
WET MY WHISTLE (Reggie Calloway)
By Midnight Star (Solar/EMI: 1983) US #15 Dance
WHENEVER, WHEREVER (Shakira Mebarak/Tim Mitchell/Luis Fernando Ochoa)
By Shakira (Epic/Sony: 2002) US #3 Dance
WISH I DIDN’T MISS YOU (Ivan Matias/Andrea Martin/Leon Huff/Gene McFadden/John Whitehead)
By Angie Stone (J/Sony: 2002) US #1 Dance
WRONG (Ben Watt/Tracey Thorn)
By Everything But The Girl (Atlantic/WMG: 1996) US #1 Dance
YOU DON’T KNOW (Cyndi Lauper/Jan Pulsford)
By Cyndi Lauper (Epic/Sony: 1997) US #16 Dance
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Grammy®-winning Kurt Elling
IT’S EASY TO REMEMBER (Rodgers/Hart)
By Kurt Elling (Concord)
Contemporary jazz vocalist Kurt Elling recently won a Grammy® for his critically-acclaimed 2009 album: “Dedicated To You: Kurt Elling Sings The Music Of Coltrane & Hartman”. On one track, the Sony/ATV standard “It’s Easy To Remember”, he narrates some lines from this classic lyric and then tells what he calls “a poetic jazz memory” about musician John Coltrane and singer Johnny Hartman traveling to their recording session.
***************
ONLY A NORTHERN SONG
The early compositions…
…of George Harrison
A dozen songs written by George Harrison during the glory days of The Beatles. Critic Mat Snow writes “For my money, the music of George Harrison is most compelling when dwelling in those strange shadows of elusive regret and longing, even fear: songs like “If I Needed Someone”, “It’s All Too Much” and “Blue Jay Way”.
BLUE JAY WAY (Harrison)
“There's a fog upon L.A.
And my friends have lost their way
We'll be over soon they said
Now they've lost themselves instead.
Please don't be long please don't you be very long
Please don't be long or I may be asleep”
By The Beatles in their 1967 TV movie “Magical Mystery Tour”.
“Blue Jay Way” is the Los Angeles street on which George and his then-wife Patti Boyd rented a house in 1967.
Other versions incl: Siouxsie & The Banshees (Sanctuary)
I NEED YOU (Harrison)
“You don't realize how much I need you.
Love you all the time and never leave you.
Please come on back to me.
I'm lonely as can be. I need you.”
By The Beatles on their 1965 “Help” soundtrack album.
Other versions incl: Tom Petty on the 2002 “Concert For George”
live tribute album (Warner Bros/WMG) & DVD.
I WANT TO TELL YOU (Harrison)
“I want to tell you
I feel hung up but I don't know why,
I don't mind
I could wait forever, I've got time”
By The Beatles on their 1966 album “Revolver”.
Other versions include: Jeff Lynne on the “Concert For George” album, Ted Nugent (Epic), The Smithereens (Koch)
IF I NEEDED SOMEONE (Harrison)
“If I needed someone to love
You're the one that I'd be thinking of
If I needed someone.
If I had some more time to spend
Then I guess I'd be with you my friend
If I needed someone”
By The Beatles on both their 1965 “Rubber Soul” album and on the American album “Yesterday…And Today” in 1966.
By The Hollies (UK Parlophone/EMI: 1965) UK #20
Other versions incl: Eric Clapton (“Concert for George” album), Roger McGuinn (April First), Livingston Taylor (Capricorn), Michael Hedges (Windham Hill), The Cryan’ Shames (Columbia), Nellie McKay (Razor & Tie), Hugh Masekela (MGM/Universal)
Plus a version by George Harrison himself on his “Live In Japan” album on Dark Horse in 1992.
THE INNER LIGHT (Harrison)
“Without going out of my door
I can know all things on earth
Without looking out of my window
I could know the ways of heaven
The farther one travels
The less one knows
The less one really knows”
By The Beatles, released as the B side of “Lady Madonna” in ’68.
Other versions incl. Jeff Lynne (“Concert For George” album)
NB: “The Inner Light” and “Within You, Without You” are fine examples of George’s use of Indian instrumentations.
IT’S ALL TOO MUCH (Harrison)
“It's all too much for me to take
The love that's shining all around you
And everywhere, it's what you make
For us to take, it's all too much”
By The Beatles on the soundtrack of their 1968 animated feature film “Yellow Submarine” and on its soundtrack album.
Other versions incl: Steve Hillage (Virgin/EMI), Wayne Kramer (Koch)
LOVE YOU TO (Harrison)
By The Beatles on their 1966 album “Revolver”.
ONLY A NORTHERN SONG (Harrison)
By The Beatles on the soundtrack of their 1968 animated feature film “Yellow Submarine” and on its soundtrack album.
TAXMAN (Harrison)
“Let me tell you how it will be,
There’s one for you, nineteen for me,
‘Cause I’m the Taxman,
Yeah, I’m the Taxman.
Should five per cent appear too small,
Be thankful I don’t take it all.
‘Cos I’m the Taxman,
Yeah, I’m the Taxman”
By The Beatles on their 1966 album “Revolver”.
Other versions incl: Black Oak Arkansas (Atco/WMG),
Tom Petty (“Concert For George” album), Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings (Fuel 2000), Plus a version by George Harrison himself on his “Live In Japan” album on Dark Horse in 1992.
THINK FOR YOURSELF (Harrison)
“Do what you want to do
And go where you're going to
Think for yourself
'Cause I won't be there with you”
By The Beatles on their 1965 album “Rubber Soul”.
Other versions incl: The Yonder Mountain String Band (Razor & Tie)
WITHIN YOU, WITHOUT YOU (Harrison)
“And the time will come when you see we’re all one
And life flows on within you and without you”
By The Beatles on their 1967 “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” album.
Other versions incl: Patti Smith (Columbia/Sony)
YOU LIKE ME TOO MUCH (Harrison)
Though you've gone away this morning,
You'll be back again tonight,
Telling me there'll be no next time
If I just don't treat you right,
You'll never leave me and you know it's true,
'Cause you like me too much and I like you."
By The Beatles on the 1965 American album “Beatles VI” and on the “Help” album” that same year.
Click Here for Associated Playlist
***************
US chart positions courtesy of Joel Whitburn & Billboard Magazine
***************
Here is a link to a complete list of earlier “Musical Notes” bulletins:
Musical Notes Archive
2/10
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