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Two of Hearts – Stacey Q
“Two of Hearts” is a song by artist Stacey Q, from her debut album Better Than Heaven.
The song was one of the highest-selling singles of 1986 (at over a million copies), reaching #3 on the Billboard Hot 100. The single also did well in the Hot Dance Music / Club Play list, landing at #4, and was a top 10 hit in Australia where it reached #7 on the ARIA chart. It also made the top 60 for the Hot R&B / Hip Hop Play list. Stacey Q performed the song on the television show The Facts of Life, in character as “Cinnamon,” a rival of Tootie’s.
“Two of Hearts” was rated #27 in VH1’s 100 Greatest One Hit Wonders of the 80’s.
The song was covered by Norwegian singer Annie. The cover version was produced by Richard X, it was released as a promotional single on October 27, 2008. “Two of Hearts” was also released as a free digital download through Annie’s official website.
All Right Now – Free
“All Right Now” is a rock single by the English band Free. The song, released in the summer of 1970, hit #2 on the UK singles chart and #4 on the U.S. charts. “All Right Now” originally appeared on the album Fire And Water, which Free recorded on the Island Records label, formed by Chris Blackwell. In 1991, the song was remixed and re-released, reaching #8 on the UK singles chart.
“All Right Now” was a #1 hit in over 20 territories and was recognised by ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers) in 1990 for garnering 1,000,000 plus radio plays in the U.S. by late 1989, and in 2000 an Award was given to Paul Rodgers by the British Music Industry when “All Right Now” passed 2,000,000 plus radio plays in the UK.
The song has recently found a home as part of the encore set for Queen + Paul Rodgers. Before “We Will Rock You” and “We Are the Champions”, it offers the fans one more chance to sing along. Curiously, one of the engineers during the recordings of “All Right Now” was Roy Thomas Baker, who would later become Queen’s producer (he mixed “Killer Queen”, “Bohemian Rhapsody” and “Don’t Stop Me Now” among others).
According to drummer Simon Kirke, “All Right Now” was written by bassist Andy Fraser in the Durham Students’ Union building, Dunelm House. However, Paul Rodgers has stated unintentionally whilst performing with Queen that he wrote the lyrics to “All Right Now”. This remark can be heard on the Queen + Paul Rodgers CD, Return of the Champions, when “All Right Now” starts.
There are (at least) two mixes of Free’s “All Right Now”. The most popular version heard on album rock stations is 5:29 and a shorter mix is 4:13. The shorter one has a more complex guitar riff at the lead-in. The difference appears in the first seven seconds of the two tracks before Rodgers’ “Whoa, whoa, whoa”. The jazzier riff is apparent throughout the entire recording; there are also several slight variants to the bassline.
Furthermore, there are two mixes of the common 4:13 version. The first is the original ‘1970s’ version; this was later remixed using exactly the same vocal track, but replacing the guitars and drums with heavier, rockier sounding ones.
There is an outtake version on their box-set, and a version on Free Live!
“All Right Now” has been covered by many bands and artists; the most popular are by The Runaways in 1978, (Rick) Santers in 1984, Rod Stewart in 1985, ex-Wham! backing singers Pepsi & Shirlie in 1987, and by Scottish girl band Lemonescent in 2003. It has also been sampled in Tone-Loc’s song “Funky Cold Medina” in 1989. The Who covered it at a concert in Passaic, New Jersey on September 11, 1979. Sawyer Brown covers “All Right Now” as a part of their 2008 tour.
“All Right Now”, recorded by Mike Oldfield (produced by Tom Newman), with vocals by Wendy Roberts and Pierre Moerrlen, was issued as a one-sided promotional blue flexi-disc 7″ single in 1979. The single was given only to Virgin Records executives and was never issued to the public, making it one of the most elusive collectors’ items in the Oldfield catalogue. Its catalogue number is “Virgin TT-362″[1].
Since 1976, “All Right Now” has been the de facto fight song of the Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band (LSJUMB).
Steve Miller acknowledged that the intro to his 1976 #1 single “Rock ‘n Me” was a tip of the hat to All Right Now. “Yeah, it’s a tack on the wall for Paul. I did one concert in the two years that I was off the road. I went to London and played with Pink Floyd…it was a big, huge outdoor show so we needed a big rock and roll number that was really going to excite everybody. I just put it together and didn’t think much about it.”
The Sign – Ace Of Base
“The Sign” is a 1993 dance-pop song by the band Ace of Base. The song was an international smash hit, spending six non-consecutive weeks as number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, also reaching Number two in the United Kingdom. It was on an album called Happy Nation in most of the world, but The Sign in North America.
The song was the #1 song of 1994 according to Billboard magazine’s year-end charts. The song was ranked at #51 on The Billboard Hot 100 All-Time Top Songs for the first 50 years of the Hot 100 chart.
The song has been covered by The Mountain Goats, Atomic Raygun Attack, Teen Hearts, and an episode of Full House.
The music video of the song features the pop group singing amidst romantic and frolic images; “The Sign” was depicted as an ankh and a djed. The music video is Directed By: Mathias Julin.
Amid the images is a little story of a man and woman sitting side by side until the man leaves, seemingly abandoning the woman. However, he comes back with a rose and offers it to the woman. The woman graciously accepts and takes his hand. However, a bright light shines in the woman’s face, drawing her away, abandoning the man and dropping the rose on the chair.
It’s Raining Men – The Weather Girls
“It’s Raining Men” is a song written by Paul Jabara and Paul Shaffer in 1979, and originally recorded by The Weather Girls in 1982. The song had been offered to Diana Ross, Donna Summer, Cher, and Barbra Streisand before being accepted by Martha Wash and Izora Armstead of The Weather Girls, with their version becoming an international hit, selling over 6 million copies worldwide.
It was covered by Martha Wash (of The Weather Girls) as a duet with RuPaul in 1997, Geri Halliwell in 2001 and by Young Divas in 2006. The song is hailed as a camp classic and more recently as a dance anthem, and as a classic female anthem, as well as a gay anthem.
The Weather Girls’ version went number one on the US Disco Chart, debuting in October 1982. It made number 34 on the US R&B chart and number 46 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was released from their album Success. This version also made it to number two in the UK Singles Chart, #2 in Australia, and #1 on the Euro Hot 100.
RuPaul and Martha Wash duetted on “It’s Raining Men… The Sequel”, which was included on the 1998 Rhino Records compilation CD RuPaul’s Go-Go Box Classics.
“It’s Raining Men” was the first single of Geri Halliwell’s second solo album and was also on the soundtrack to the film Bridget Jones’s Diary. It was released in April, 2001.
It debuted at number-one in UK Singles Chart and stayed there for two weeks. It became Geri’s fourth consecutive number-one single in United Kingdom, selling 155,000 units in its first week and 80,000 in its second week. Overall the single went on to sell 421,670 copies in Britain alone, becoming the 12th best seller of 2001 and Geri Halliwell’s most successful single worldwide.
The song became the second best selling single of 2001 with over 3 million copies sold. The song had been added to the album at the last minute; another song, “Feels Like Sex”, had already been slated as the lead single. So far, of all the solo single releases of the Spice Girls members, this is still the most successful and best-selling. With this song, Geri Halliwell won the International Song of the Year award at the 2002 NRJ Music Awards in France. A remix of the song, The Almighty Mix from the Toshiba-EMI series “Dance Mania”, volume 20 was also featured in the 2002 Japanese video game, DDRMAX2: Dance Dance Revolution 7th MIX and the 2002 Dance Dance Revolution EXTREME. This version of the song was used as the theme song in the advertisements for New Talent Singing Awards Vancouver Audition 2003. In July 2006 the song entered at seventy-nine on the Mexican Digital Sales Chart, spending two weeks inside the Top 100.
Great info on a great song by Free.
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