who wrote the song i want to dance with somebody
I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)


eventually surpassed by her version of "I Will Always Love You", five years later in 1992. "I Wanna Dance with Somebody" was written by George Merrill and Shannon Rubicam, who wrote Houston's 1985 song "How Will I Know, which became successful, and as a result, they were asked to come up with another song for Houston's then-new album. Originally the song that gave Merrill and Rubicam their British top ten success as Boy Meets Girl, "Waiting For a Star to Fall"
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Love Somebody (Maroon 5 song)


Adam Markovitz of "Entertainment Weekly" in a review of the album, wrote that the song together with "Daylight" have "thickly" produced choruses. Lyrically, "Love Somebody" equates love and physical intimacy, with Levine singing: "I really wanna love somebody [...] I really wanna touch somebody". Nate Chinen of "The New York Times" described the lyrical theme of the song as "a plea for salvation on the dance floor or some other horizontal surface". Suzanne Byrne of RTÉ.ie wrote
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I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)


"a deliciously raucous tune with a bit of the synthesizer underpinning and giddy zest of Cyndi Lauper's 'Girls Just Want to Have Fun.'" In his review of "Whitney", Jon Pareles of "The New York Times" gave a negative comment, writing that listening to "I Wanna Dance with Somebody" and "You're Still My Man," another track on the album was like "watching television while someone fiddles with color controls." In 2006, "Slant Magazine" ranked the song at
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List of songs recorded by Whitney Houston


" 200 album chart, a position it held for 11 weeks. "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" was released as the lead single from "Whitney". The dance-pop song was written by George Merrill and Shannon Rubicam. It was ranked at number 88 on Slant Magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Dance Songs in 2006. "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)", along with the following three singles to be released from "Whitney", ("Did
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I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)


#88 in their 100 Greatest Dance Songs, commenting that "with its parenthetical title, gummy bassline, schmaltzy horns, tinkling keyboards, and half-step key changes, [the song] is definitive '80s dance-pop." "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" won the award for "Favorite Pop/Rock Single" at the 15th American Music Awards on January 25, 1988. Additionally, Houston won the Grammy award for "Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female" with the song
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I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)


was intended by the duo to be a song for Houston. The duo sent it to Arista Records, but they passed on it citing it was not suitable for Houston. Undeterred by this minor setback, the pair continued working on finding a song that would be ideal for Houston, and were inspired to come up with "I Wanna Dance with Somebody." Later on, Rubicam explained the idea behind the song: But, the song did not impress the producer Narada Michael Walden, who had produced "How Will I
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Love Will Save the Day


the uptempo numbers on the album that also includes "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" and "So Emotional." "Los Angeles Times" editor Robert Hilburn described the song as a "hollow dance track that tries to mix social comment with dance-floor vigor." Rolling Stone's Vince Alleti wrote: "Jellybean clicks neatly with "Love Will Save the Day," the only song to even remotely acknowledge the problems of the world at large and the most vivaciously percussive track on the record
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The Way I Are (Dance with Somebody)


Houston's single "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)". Mike Wass of "Idolator" gave the song a positive review, calling the single "instantly hummable and sweet relief from the endless stream of left-of-center pop songs on radio." The music video directed by Director X was released on June 1, 2017. The fashion for the music video was inspired by vintage movies such as "Grease". The video features video game "Just Dance 2018" which the song is
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Dance with Somebody (Glee)


of the episode. Seven of Houston's songs are featured in the episode, and all have been released as singles available for digital download. These songs are "How Will I Know" in an a cappella version sung by Riley, Rivera, Colfer and Michele, "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)", "Saving All My Love for You", "So Emotional", "It's Not Right but It's Okay", "I Have Nothing" and "My Love Is Your
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I Need Somebody


"I Need Somebody" is a pop–dance song by Australian pop group Bardot and was the second single from their second album "Play It Like That" (2001). It was produced by United Kingdom producer Ray Hedges. Band member Tiffani Wood stated in an interview that, When we heard the demo, we hated it and didn't want to do it...But once we heard our vocals on it, they made the song. It's not what people would have expected after "ASAP"; people
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I Want Somebody (Bitch About)


ME, who wants to find somebody that they can bitch about and still live without," said Kristin about the song adding "I don't know a woman who can't relate to that." Warren offered the song to Chenoweth, who commented that it's funny that she can have a song on her album called "Prayer of St. Francis" and also "Bitch About"; Chenoweth noted that, at first, she had some doubts about including the song on the album because of its title. "Bitch
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Know." He took a little more persuading with regard to the song's potential, and at first was not too keen on having Houston record it, as he felt it was too "country and western sounding." He said of it, For the song's production, a Roland TR-808 was used to produce the drum machine percussion. "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" received mixed reviews from critics. Vince Aletti of "Rolling Stone" magazine, in a review of the album "
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Be Someone Else


Slimmy revealed the title of the album. He explained: "As a first resort, when I wrote the lyrics of the song ["Be Someone Else"], I just wanted to warn those who not work, but still waiting for results. If you want to be somebody, you have to give much of yourself, is not enough to "give less and expect more". However, over the years, I realized that music was also for the kind of people that bring us down. Life is
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Black Magic (song)


" of Whitney Houston's "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" and Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Want to Have Fun", while also comparing the song to those of their debut album "DNA". "Billboard" ranked the song at number 34 on their list of 100 Greatest Girl Group Songs of All Time. On the UK Singles Chart, the song entered at number one and stayed there for three consecutive weeks. "Black Magic" had the fourth highest debut of the year in
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X Factor (Polish season 4)


of songs included "Beneath Your Beautiful" by Labrinth and Emeli Sande, "She's the One" by World Party, "Who Wants To Live Forever" by Queen, "You Are So Beautiful" by Joe Cocker, "I Believe I Can Fly" by R. Kelly, "Billie Jean" by Michael Jackson, "Wake Me Up" by Avicii, "Stacja Warszawa" by Lady Pank, "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" by Whitney Houston, "Firework" by Katy
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I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)


, 1990 and later broadcast on Japanese TV channel. On March 17, she sang the song live on That's What Friends Are For: Arista Records 15th Anniversary AIDS Benefit Concert, televised on CBS, April 17, 1990. This performance was included in the 2014 CD/DVD release, "". In 1991, she opened I'm Your Baby Tonight World Tour with "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)." Three different performances of the song were taped and broadcast. The first is in
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After the Dance (song)


"get together" after the two shared a dance. Throughout the entire "I Want You" album, which was dedicated to Marvin's live-in lover Janis Hunter (who wrote a 2015 memoir entitled "After the Dance: My Life with Marvin Gaye"), the narrator — Gaye — brings up the dance concept in songs such as "Since I Had You". The song also served in a funky instrumental, which included a synthesizer solo performed by Marvin, who also played piano on the song and
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Boy Meets Girl (band)


their two number one hits written for Whitney Houston, "How Will I Know" and "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)". They also wrote the songs "Don't Tell Me We Have Nothing" and "Haunting Me" for Deniece Williams and the song "I Know You By Heart", which was recorded by Dolly Parton and Smokey Robinson for Parton's 1987 "Rainbow" album, and later covered by Bette Midler for the "Beaches" soundtrack. The duo also performed backing vocals
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at its 30th ceremony on March 2, 1988, where she received a total of three nominations. The music video for the song was nominated for "Best Music Video" at the 2nd Soul Train Music Awards on March 30, 1988. Houston won the award for "Best Music Video" for the video at the 1st Garden State Music Awards. In 2015 the song was voted by the British public as the nation's fifth favourite 1980s number one in a poll for ITV. "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who
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I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)


"I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" is the first single from Whitney Houston's second studio album, "Whitney". It was released on May 2, 1987 by Arista Records. It was produced by Narada Michael Walden, and written by George Merrill and Shannon Rubicam, of the band Boy Meets Girl, who had previously written the number-one Whitney Houston hit "How Will I Know." The song received mixed reviews from critics, who compared the musical arrangement to her own "How
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Lights Out (Virginia to Vegas song)


the fourth single from the album. "Lights Out" is a "dark" dance-pop song with electronica influences and a "pulsing" beat. The song's hook – "I always feel like somebody's watching me" – is sampled from Rockwell's 1984 single, "Somebody's Watching Me". "We were trying to think of a dark sentiment and we used [the borrowed lyric] as a placeholder," Virginia to Vegas said to iHeartRadio about the sample. "And the more we wrote
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Home (soundtrack)


"enough backdrop of saccharine synths and snap beats". "Rolling Stone"'s Jon Blistein linked "Dancing in the Dark"'s chorus to the one of Whitney Houston's 1987 single "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)". He also wrote that the song has a "wubby bass groove" that could feature American actress Courtney Cox dancing to it in its potential music video, a reference to her appearance in the video for Bruce Springsteen's 1984 single with the same name. Jennifer Lopez's
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Somebody (Natalie La Rose song)


"Somebody" is the debut single from Dutch singer Natalie La Rose featuring American singer Jeremih. The song was written by La Rose and produced by The Futuristics and Cook Classics. An audio version of the song was first uploaded onto YouTube in December 2014. It was then released for digital download on January 6, 2015. Musically, "Somebody" is an electro-R&B song which makes use of synthesizers and heavy drum instrumentation. The song interpolates "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" by Whitney
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Torn (Ednaswap song)


's All I Want For Christmas Is You (370 million), Whitney Houston's I Wanna Dance With Somebody (262 million), Tracy Chapman's Fast Car (247 million), Cyndi Lauper's Girls Just Want To Have Fun (225 million) and Whitney Houston's I Will Always Love You (190 million). In 2005, Brazilian girl group Rouge recorded a Portuguese version of the song, titled "O Amor é Ilusão" (lit.: "Love is an illusion"), included in the
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Boy Meets Girl (band)


Boy Meets Girl is an American pop-music duo consisting of keyboardist and vocalist George Merrill and singer Shannon Rubicam. They are perhaps best known for their hit song "Waiting for a Star to Fall" from 1988 and for writing two of Whitney Houston's number one hits: "How Will I Know" and "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)". The members of Boy Meets Girl, George Merrill and Shannon Rubicam, wrote and composed a number of songs for other artists. Most famous are
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Dance with Somebody (Glee)


: "How Will I Know" debuted at number sixty-five and "It's Not Right but It's Okay" debuted at number ninety-two. Three songs charted on the "Billboard" Canadian Hot 100: "How Will I Know" debuted at number sixty-one, "It's Not Right but It's Okay" debuted at number seventy-five and "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" debuted at number eighty. The same week as the "Glee" singles charted
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I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)


On the tour, five different performances of the song were taped and televised; four was on the South American leg of the tour in 1994―Brazil, Chile, Argentina and Venezuela―and one was in Johannesburg, South Africa, broadcast live via satellite on HBO, November 12, 1994; the concert titled "." Houston performed the song at a 25-minute pregame show of the 1994 FIFA World Cup Final at Rose Bowl in Los Angeles, broadcast in more than 180 countries on July 17, 1994. "I Wanna Dance with Somebody
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TeeFlii


in an interview, "TeeFLii came from dancing. I was in the Rize movie, and my name in the movie was Baby Tight Eyez. I was under somebody in dancing named Tight Eyez, then I wanted to branch off and do my own thing when I started getting older. I wanted to have my own name and something I could say that I did for myself. I grew up under another dude named Flii Stylz who choreographed for Chris Brown, Usher, Omarion, everybody in the game. I took a
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The Way I Are (Dance with Somebody)


"The Way I Are (Dance with Somebody)" is a song recorded by American singer Bebe Rexha featuring American rapper Lil Wayne, from her third extended play (EP) "". It was released on May 19, 2017 by Warner Bros. Records as the lead single from the EP. The single was leaked a week before its release, though it was deleted soon after. The single was serviced to pop radio on June 6, 2017. "The Way I Are (Dance with Somebody)" samples Whitney
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Allstar Weekend


touring internationally, mature themes in songs, etc.). In August 2012, they confirmed that they had signed a distribution deal with Universal Music Canada. In March 2012, the band announced that they would release a 5-song extended play on July 3, 2012. The EP features the singles "Wanna Dance With Somebody" (ASW 2012), a cover of Whitney Houston's "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)", "Life as We Know It" and, later, "The Last
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This City (Patrick Stump song)


record, then I really need to go back to the drawing board.' Basically I took "This City", "Everybody Wants Somebody", "Allie", and a song called "Dance Miserable", and rebuilt the album around those four songs." On Tuesday, June 28, Stump premiered the remix of his "Soul Punk" track "This City" which features rapper and fellow Chicagoan Lupe Fiasco on avclub.com, linked to his YouTube upload. The remix of "This City" was released as
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Somebody (Natalie La Rose song)


Jeremih singing his part. The video received over 140 million views on YouTube and Vevo. The song contains interpolations of Whitney Houston's 1987 hit "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)", "Do You Really Wanna Know" by Lillix written by Marcel Albert, and "Shots" by LMFAO and Lil Jon. La Rose explained how the song came about: "We had the whole song except for the hook. Hours later, Flo all of a sudden was like, 'I wanna rock with
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These Kids Wear Crowns


-issued their EP on August 31, 2010. In Fall 2010, These Kids Wear Crowns returned to the studio to record their full-length album, entitled "Jumpstart", which was released on March 1, 2011. One of the singles released was a cover of the Whitney Houston song "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)" featuring Mexican actress and singer, Eiza González. Alex and Alan knew each other from high school, where they wrote songs together. Following a several year hiatus,
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I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)


Will I Know" and Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Want to Have Fun." The song won the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the 30th Grammy Awards. The single was a commercial success, topping the charts in 13 countries including Australia, Italy, Germany and the UK. In the US, it became her fourth consecutive number one single and sold over one million copies, making it her first platinum single in the US; and her biggest hit in that country at the time. It was
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Black Magic (song)


of CBBC's Friday Download ninth season. The band performed the song during Radio City's Summer Live in the Echo Arena among singers such as Rita Ora, Alesha Dixon and Nick Jonas. On 30 July 2015, the band performed "Black Magic" in Plymouth during the first day of MTV Crashes Plymouth. The band performed the song in BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge before performing a mashup cover of Jason Derulo's "Want to Want Me" and Whitney Houston's "I Wanna Dance with Somebody" with a gospel choir
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Midnight Train to Georgia


which he recorded on Jimmy Bowen's Amos Records. "It was based on a conversation I had with somebody... about taking a midnight plane to Houston," Weatherly recalls. "I wrote it as a kind of a country song. Then we sent the song to a guy named Sonny Limbo in Atlanta and he wanted to cut it with Cissy Houston... he asked if I minded if he changed the title to "Midnight Train to Georgia". And I said, 'I don't mind. Just don't
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I Wanna Be Around


"I Wanna Be Around" is a popular song. In the lyrics, the singer declares that he "wants to be around" when the woman who spurned him inevitably gets her heart broken. The song is credited to Sadie Vimmerstedt and Johnny Mercer. Vimmerstedt was a grandmother and housewife (or a beautician) in Youngstown, Ohio, who sent Mercer an idea for the song in 1957, as well as giving Mercer the opening line ("I want to be around to pick up the pieces, when somebody breaks
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Boy Meets Girl (band)


a Bullet" also contains their original demo tape for "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)". In 2005, "Waiting for a Star to Fall" was involved in a "sample battle". Two electronic music groups, Cabin Crew and Sunset Strippers, wanted to sample the song and remix it. Sunset Strippers, from the UK, won the right for the samples from the band's record label, releasing "Falling Stars". However, Cabin Crew, from Australia, had met Boy
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Every Day I Have to Cry (album)


Every Day I Have to Cry was Steve Alaimo's third album for Checker Records. Rather than capitalizing on dance crazes, this album is completely devoted to songs about crying. (The debut albums of Chuck Jackson and Lesley Gore—"I Don't Want to Cry!" and "I'll Cry If I Want To", respectively—are devoted to the same subject.) The title track was later recorded by Arthur Alexander (who also wrote the song), Dusty Springfield, The Valentines (featuring Bon Scott) and Johnny
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I Want Somebody (Bitch About)


Country Music Television. Chenoweth performed "I Want Somebody (Bitch About)" on many TV shows as part of the promo for her album, making the world premiere of the single on CMT's Next Superstar. Other performances include shows such as Live! with Regis and Kelly and Jimmy Kimmel Live!. "I Want Somebody (Bitch About)" was written by Diane Warren, and produced by Bob Ezrin. The country song, speaks about "a girl... a woman, let me re-phrase that,
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I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)


" was included in the setlist on two regional tours, The Pacific Rim Tour (1997) and The European Tour (1998). During the 1999 My Love Is Your Love World Tour, the remix version of the song was performed as a part of "1980s Dance Medley" along with "How Will I Know." One performance of the song on the tour was taped in Sopot, Poland and broadcast live on Polish TV channel TVP1 on August 22, 1999. In 2000, she performed the song as a
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Get the Music On


"Get the Music On" is a pop–dance song by Australian singer Sophie Monk, and was the second single from her debut album "Calendar Girl" (2003). It was co-written and produced by Ray "Madman" Hedges (who previously worked with Monk on the Bardot single "I Need Somebody"). The single was released on 31 March 2003 and debuted at number 11 on the ARIA Charts in April 2003 and peaked a week later at number 10. Monk co-wrote the B
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Stay Alive (album)


. Jazz singer and Nina's co-Sessionista Richard Poon wrote the acoustic ballad "I Don't Want to Fight" in late 2010, while R&B singer Amber Davis wrote the electropop-dance cuts "Only with You" and "I Came to Dance". Nina also wrote a song for the album together with Martin. The song was entitled "You Should Know". As she made sure to include an inspirational song about "following your dreams," a Jude Gitamondoc-penned power ballad, later revealed to
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Lacrymosa (song)


: "They were like, 'Do you want to do a cameo?' And I was like, 'Hell yeah! Let me die. I want to be somebody who gets murdered.' So I don't think that's going to happen." She later revealed that "Lacrymosa" was originally written for the film, but it was not included due to its dark sound, and because the producers wanted an original song. However, according to producers, neither Lee nor the band were approached to compose
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Erik Lewander


Awards, "Dance Work of the Year" for the song "Saved In A Bottle" In 2014 he composed music for "Jordskott". A new TV series for SVT. Broadcast start in mid February 2015. In 2015 he co-wrote the song "I Want Your Love" for the Moldova's entry to Eurovision Song Contest performed by Eduard Romanyuta. I Want Your Love (Eduard Romanyuta song) In 2015 he co-wrote the song "Building It Up" for Melodifestivalen 2015 performed by JTR. In
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Caroline Munro


". It was written and directed by Brian Clemens, who wrote the screenplay for "The Golden Voyage of Sinbad", so, I was lucky enough to be chosen for "Captain Kronos", and they were searching for somebody to do "Sinbad", and they wanted a big name, somebody American, or well-known, but Brian said "No". He kept lobbying Charles Schneer [producer] and Ray Harryhausen — saying: 'I think you should come and look at the rushes, and
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All I Want Is You (Agnes song)


that the sound of the single evolved the appropriate way for the last four years, and he paided homage to producer Jonas Quant, who wrote the song along with Ana Diaz and Agnes herself, for this. JonAli described the song as "an emotional disco anthem with lush strings and a flawless vocal from the Swedish diva." "All I Want Is You” brings us back to the friendly dance beats we are use to hearing from her hits 'Release Me' and 'Don’t Go Breaking My Heart'.
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Somebody Saved Me


"Somebody Saved Me" is a song written and composed by Pete Townshend, the guitarist and principal songwriter for The Who. The song appears on his third solo album "All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes" (1982). It is also on The Who's 1997 remaster of their 1981 album "Face Dances" as a bonus track. The Who omitted "Somebody Saved Me" from "Face Dances", their first album with Kenney Jones on drums following the death of Keith Moon, as it did not
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I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)


with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" the single sold 4.2 million copies worldwide. After her death, the single returned to the Billboard Hot 100 debuting at number 35 the same week "I Will Always Love You" re-entered at number 7, giving Houston two posthumous Top 40 hits. The video for "I Wanna Dance with Somebody" was directed by Brian Grant and choreographed by Arlene Phillips, who also worked with Houston on the music video for "How Will I Know". The video features Houston in
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Somebody Loves You (Betty Who song)


Spy, Who said "Two days after she passed away, we were in the studio listening to lots of classics and it made me realise that there's no joy in pop music right now. The message is either 'you hurt me' or 'let's get down in the club.' I wanted to write a song that would make people feel happy and that's where "Somebody Loves You" comes from." The song debuted at number 4 on Spotify's Most Viral list, gaining more than six
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Julia Edwards


into a choreographed and competitive performance by reversing the process, with the bar steadily being lowered to show the dancer's suppleness. Working with costume designer Helen Humphrey and promoter and organiser Holly Betaudier, Edwards introduced the song "I want somebody to limbo like me" and helped promote the dance as a popular entertainment and tourist attraction. Her dance group performed at many hotels, clubs and restaurants in Trinidad. In 1957, after being seen performing at the Miramar club, Edwards took part with dancer "Stretch" Cox and other
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I Want Somebody (Bitch About)


"I Want Somebody (Bitch About)" is a song by American recording artist Kristin Chenoweth. The song was written by Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee Diane Warren and produced by Bob Ezrin for Chenoweth's fourth studio album, "Some Lessons Learned" (2011). The song was released on May 31, 2011 by Sony Music Entertainment's record label Masterworks Broadway, as the lead single from the album. An accompanying music video, directed by Roman White, was Chenoweth's first televised music video and was released on
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Wanted (Hunter Hayes song)


Songs and Adult Contemporary charts. Hunter told "Taste of Country" about writing the song: "At the time, I was trying to tell somebody something, but I couldn't figure out how to say it. So I wanted to say it in music because I knew it would be a little more impactful. I wanted to say we are great in this relationship together, and I feel like it could even get better." The song is a ballad expressing a desire to make a lover feel "wanted"
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Dancing in the Dark (Rihanna song)


song with a length of three minutes and forty-three seconds. The track is an up-tempo "poppy-number" that features "enough backdrop of saccharine synths and snap beats". According to James Grebey of "Spin" magazine it's also "upbeat and a little funkier — if a tad repetitive." "Rolling Stone"'s Jon Blistein linked "Dancing in the Darks chorus to the one of Whitney Houston's 1987 single "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)". He
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Good Enough (Evanescence song)


a small role, saying "They were like, 'Do you want to do a cameo?' And I was like, 'Hell yeah! Let me die. I want to be somebody who gets murdered.' So I don't think that's going to happen." She later revealed that "Lacrymosa" and another song were originally written for the film, but were not included. According to the producers of the movie, neither Lee or the band were approached to compose music for the film. Another
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Chiefly About War Matters


Hawthorne wrote "Chiefly About War Matters" in less than a month and sent the manuscript to publisher James Thomas Fields in May. Fields approved it without reading it, to the disappointment of Hawthorne, who wrote to Ticknor, "I wanted to benefit of somebody's opinion besides my own, as to the expediency of publishing two or three passages in the article." Fields soon regretted the decision as well and asked for changes. He tactfully wrote to Hawthorne, "I knew I should like it hugely and I do.
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I Surrender (To the Spirit of the Night)


"I Surrender (To the Spirit of the Night)" is a pop/dance rock song performed by British singer Samantha Fox in 1987. The song was co-written by Jon Astrop, Karen Moline and Mark Shreeve and produced by Astrop who had also co-wrote and produced Samantha's breakthrough hit Touch Me (I Want Your Body) the year before. The song was released as the second single from Samantha’s second album, "Samantha Fox", in the summer of 1987. Although failing to match
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Lynsey de Paul


on 4 October 1973, which was the date of the release of the single. The flip side of "Won't Somebody Dance With Me" was "So Good To You", a song that was covered by Lenny Zakatek on the B-side of his single "I Gotcha Now". "I Gotcha Now" was also written by de Paul, originally for Slade. In Japan, "So Good To You" was released as the A-side with "Won't Somebody Dance With Me" being
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Christina Aguilera (album)


it more of an edge, R&B it up a little, maybe rock it out a little, give it a lot of different new directions and get it out there." Peiken also co-wrote ("Don't Make Me Love You", "Too Beautiful For Words" & "Dreamy Eyes"). Aguilera also recorded a cover of All-4-One's song "I Turn to You", written by Diane Warren who also wrote "Somebody's Somebody". Carl Sturken and Evan Rogers (who would eventually
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for six weeks, and peaked inside top five in Austria and Ireland. This popularity of the single across Europe led to the song topping the European Hot 100 Singles chart for eight weeks. It became Houston's second number-one single on the Australian "Kent Music Report" chart, staying at the top for five weeks. The song also peaked at number one on the New Zealand Singles Chart and remained there for four weeks, making it Houston's first number-one single in the country. "I Wanna Dance
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I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)


Contemporary and the remixed dance / club version by Steve Thompson and Michael Barbiero became Houston's first chart-topper on the "Billboard" Hot Dance/Club Play Songs, staying on the top position of the charts for three weeks and two weeks, respectively. In addition, it reached a peak of two on the "Billboard" Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart (formerly "Hot Black Singles"), the issue date of July 4, 1987. It remained at that position for two weeks, behind
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She's on My Mind


says it all, 'She’s on My Mind' is a song about having somebody invade your thoughts no matter how much you try to move forward, I’m sure most people have experienced this and we wanted the song to have the same infectious effect. "I’m so glad we managed to release this before the summer is over as it’s definitely a song to enjoy in the sun. Written with the same close friends that I wrote September Song with, it was a lot of fun bringing this one to
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Music of Sesame Street


Bein' Green," "Somebody Come and Play" and "C is for Cookie". "Sing" became a hit for The Carpenters in 1973. Moss wrote "I Love Trash", which was included on the first album of "Sesame Street" songs, and "Rubber Duckie", which was performed by the Boston Pops and hit #11 on the United States' "Billboard" Hot 100 chart in 1971, "I Don't Want to Live on the Moon" and "People in Your
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Marcy & Hunson


she had a boyfriend". On Tumblr, she elaborated: So, I wanted to give you guys a bit of a backstory on the song I wrote called "Slow Dance" ... I wrote [the song] about this girl I had a big crush on, and she liked me too, but ... she had a boyfriend and I wasn’t a boy... (to her). I identify as genderfluid, and I feel very he/him most of the time. I was so heartbroken because I knew
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Golden (Travie McCoy song)


through some really hard times that I will always hold dear to my heart. She's an angel with the voice of one." Speaking on "Entertainment Tonight", McCoy said, "It's like second nature working with Sia. We have this brotherly-sisterly vibe going on. Once I heard the hook, I kinda knew where I wanted to go lyrically and I wrote it in about 45 minutes... I think a lot of people can relate to having those tinglies in their stomach about that special somebody.
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I Want Somebody (Bitch About)


lyrics into one three-minute pop-country song." Ben Foster from countrymusicreview.net considered the song "shrill, thin, and downright painful for the ears to hear" stating that, even though Kristin is a very talented woman, her "amazing award-winning talents (...) were taking a siesta during this recording session". On the other hand, Allmusic.com praised the track. The music video for "I Want Somebody (Bitch About)" was directed by Roman White and was Chenoweth's first televised music
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I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)


a pink dress and a continuous shot of a purple backdrop that never changes its angle of vision. In the intro of this video, Houston just finishes a performance onstage. She walks backstage, and the scene is intercut with more vivid, colorful images of her. The song then explodes into its beginning, with myriad locations and various outfits by Houston, as dancers trying to impress her as she dances. Towards the end of the song she manhandles a guy, who has a mixture of a look of shock and surprise
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Somebody (Natalie La Rose song)


somebody!' And we were like, 'Yes! That's the moment we've been waiting for, it all makes sense.'" She also said: "We had this idea to base a song around Whitney’s first big hit, I Wanna Dance With Somebody. Getting permission to use a sample was pretty difficult. We were in the process of creating the song in Miami when Jeremih was there doing a Big Dreams for Kids Back to School event. Flo invited him to add a rap to the track
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How Will I Know


the Montreux Golden Rose Rock Festival: IM&MC Gala with two other 1986 released songs, "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" and "Where Do Broken Hearts Go". On April 29, 1985, she appeared on "The Merv Griffin Show", taped in New York City, and performed "How Will I Know". On her Moment of Truth World Tour, she participated in the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute Concert and performed the song with other seven songs. She also performed the song
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I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)


asking him "Don't you wanna dance say you wanna dance". It has over 100 million views as of November, 2017 on YouTube. Houston performed the song on almost all of her world and regional tours. She premiered the song during the later shows of The Greatest Love World Tour in 1986, before its official release of the next year, introducing the song along with "Didn't We Almost Have It All" as new tunes from her upcoming album. During her European promotion for a new album in April
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On the 6


to it, and then I was like, "I have an idea of what I want to write about: when you're with somebody, and somebody else comes into your life, and even though you love this person, somebody else is there...". The song concludes with a "Spanish moan". "On the 6" features several other ballads, including "Too Late" and the "flamenco-flavored", bittersweet "Could This Be Love". Lopez shows her vulnerable side on "Talk
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The American Dream (Allstar Weekend EP)


The American Dream is the second EP by the American pop rock band Allstar Weekend. It was self-released under their own label, Diggit Records on July 3, 2012. The band's member Zachary Porter confirmed that he wrote the song "I Was Born To Die With You" about his parents. The EP's first single, "Wanna Dance with Somebody" (ASW 2012), was released on February 13, 2012. An official music video was filmed for this song and it was released on March 4
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Somebody Loves You (Betty Who song)


Spotify. On 8 March 2014, "Somebody Loves You" reached number one on the "Billboard" Dance/Club Play Songs chart. On 14 July 2014, Who made her television debut, performing the song live on "Late Night with Seth Meyers". A remix EP was released on 22 July 2014. A music video was directed by Evan Savitt and released on 21 January 2013. The video shows Who dancing in an empty room while getting dressed to go to a party. A second music video was directed
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Side Effects (Mariah Carey song)


times,' but Mariah thinks this song is for 'anyone who’s been in an abusive relationship.' 'You know what? I’ve been through too much at this point,' she said. 'I want happiness and I want pure and real love, but the side effects of what other relationships have put me through cause me to be kind of on the defensive a lot of the time. And if somebody isn’t mature or caring and loving and open-hearted enough to understand that, then it
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The Golden Voyage of Sinbad


being "Dracula AD 1972", and the second one being "Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter", which, kind of, would come full-circle, to "Sinbad". It was written and directed by Brian Clemens, who wrote the screenplay for "The Golden Voyage of Sinbad", so, I was lucky enough to be chosen for "Captain Kronos", and they were searching for somebody to do "Sinbad", and they wanted a big name, somebody American, or well-known,
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Somebody (Bonnie McKee song)


in. The song was written by McKee, Robert Orrall, and Al Anderson, while production was mainly handled by Rob Cavallo with help from Antonina Armato. "Somebody" is a slow pop song, featuring bass guitars with a piano and drum background. McKee wrote it inspired by "Magnolia", where one of her idols Aimee Mann had the song "Save Me" featured, and described it as "kind of a ballad, just looking for that ’somebody,’ if you will. I believe in it
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Artists with the most number-ones on the U.S. Dance Club Songs chart


-one songs on the chart. Her first was with the 12" remix of "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" in July 1987, spending two consecutive weeks at the peak. She topped the chart five months later on December 26, with a remix of "So Emotional", which also spent two consecutive weeks atop the chart. "Love Will Save the Day" became her third chart-topper in August 1988, and was her last song to reach the peak in the 1980s.
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Wayne Carson


years but without success until Siman's friend and producer Chet Atkins took a liking to a tune called "Somebody Like Me" and wanted to have Eddy Arnold record it. Carson was taken aback when he got a call from Arnold, one of the most successful country acts of all time. "Eddie said, 'Wayne, I love the song, but it needs another verse'," Carson recalled. "So I said, 'Well, the third verse goes like this' and I just wrote it right
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Somebody to Love (Justin Bieber song)


his love for a girl and tells her he'd do anything for her" and a "club-friendly pop tune." Jody Rosen of "Rolling Stone" said the song was a "thumping Eurodisco." Lauren Carter of the "Boston Herald" called the track "fun and upbeat" and said, "is a standout and the track to download – give listeners time to dance or daydream, as the case may be." Fraser McAlpine of "BBC Music" wrote that "Somebody to Love is
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Adriènne Ferreira


began to record 4 new dance songs for the same producer but they were never fully finished. In January 2010, Ferreira started working on pop/dance project with a new producer and wrote lyrics for 13 new songs. "I've always wanted to sing, it's something that has been in my heart for a long time. I come from a family of musicians where everyone plays the piano, so music is in my veins. I have been writing poetry since I was little and now I feel like I can
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A God That Can Dance


"I remember when he wrote "Mama Don't Cry", it came out of a conversation where I said 'you gotta tell your folks, you've got to tell them', if he wanted to protect them as he's a sweet guy who doesn't want anyone to hurt. And he did, and one of his ways of telling his mother was to write the song."" Three days after Delph's death, his mother, June, published a letter based on Paul's final week
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Medicine (Shakira song)


writing the song Shakira tried many different genres saying "When I wrote ['Medicine'], I didn't know what direction to go in and I did, like, eight versions … dance, pop. But, I said, no, this is a country song." She later contacted Shelton and told him that a country song is what type of song she wanted to do due to the "acoustic guitars, that type of narrative, songs that have a traditional structure." "Medicine" received generally
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Still the One


a long lasting and, of course, intimate relationship ("You're still the one, I want to talk to in bed; Still the one that turns my head") and all the reasons why she is "Still the One" for whom he has feelings. Orleans bass player Lance Hoppen recalls that Johanna Hall wrote the lyrics for "Still the One" after a friend "asked her why somebody couldn't write a song about staying together, as opposed to breaking up"; Johanna Hall wrote the lyrics
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George Jones


lot of affection. I have probably been a very unliked person among family, like somebody who was heartless. I saved it all for the songs. I didn't know you were supposed to show that love person to person. I guess I always wanted to, but I didn't know how. The only way I could would be to do it in a song." Years later he commented to The Christian Broadcasting Network's Scott Ross about himself, "I think you're mad at yourself, I think that
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Remedy (Little Boots song)


period. She initially found working with RedOne intimidating because their collaboration was expected to produce a hit song. According to Little Boots, "Remedy" "is about dancing and music being a remedy to some kind of poison in your life. I wanted to write a dark dance pop song a bit like Britney Spears' 'Toxic'. The lyrics are not really very personal, I was more imagining a situation." "Remedy" received positive reviews from music critics. David Balls wrote for Digital Spy that the song
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Mistreated (song)


and cried because I wanted it to be so good. Then the next night we had another session and I did it on the second take. It's like progressive blues. I wasn't raised in a shack by the railroad tracks but I've still had emotional hassles and that's the only kind of blues I can interpret. I tried very hard because I knew it was essential to get the strong emotive quality the song needs. The thing I wanted was for somebody listening to the song to think: 'I
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I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)


Whitney", criticized the song, commenting that "not taking any chances, the songwriters [Merill Griffith and Shannon Rubicam] have simply come up with a clever anagram of their original hit [How Will I Know], and [Narada Michael] Walden has glossed it over in an identically perky style. The strategy is not so different from that behind Hollywood's blockbuster sequels: this is 'How Will I Know II'." "Los Angeles Times"'s pop music critic, Robert Hilburn described the song as
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Wish You Were Here (Avril Lavigne song)


pop rock, and so now finally with this one, 'Wish You Were Here', being released, it feels right." The song comes from a place deep inside and is very much about someone in Lavigne's life. "I love this song. I like this song because I wrote it about missing somebody and that's something that we all go through at some point in our lives," she explained. "It's just about looking back and remembering all those good times you shared with somebody,
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Edurne


album's lead single, the top-twenty in the Spanish Dance iTunes Chart. Edurne released her third album "Première" on 4 June 2008, with the lead single being "Un Poco de Amor" (Spanish version of Queen's "Somebody to Love)". "Sigo Enamorada de Ti" (Spanish version of "Hopelessly Devoted To You") and "Tú serás para mí" (Spanish version of "You're The One That I Want") were the following singles. Both are songs from
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Lungi Dance


br Whoever wants to do whatever, dobr I am here, catch mebr (or) Go home, and Google me,br (or) read about me in Wikipediabr br Lungi dance, lungi dance... "Lungi Dance" received mainly mixed reviews from critics in India. Mohar Basu of Koimoi wrote in his review, "I am quite assured that not every Rajni fan has Lungi as their favorite attire and neither will they appreciate Lassi in their coconut! Not that I was expecting meaning in the lyrics of the song
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Mike Appel


looser, more musically adventurous and lyrically romantic approach of Springsteen's first two albums. After Landau took over, Springsteen's work became more tightly focused in musical terms and more political in content. Appel also co-wrote four songs with Wes Farrell and Jim Cretecos that were recorded by the Partridge Family, including the chart hit "Doesn't Somebody Want to Be Wanted" (US #6, 1971) and the album tracks "Somebody Wants To Love You" (1970), "Rainmaker" (1971) and
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I Want to Take You Higher


Stewart was credited as the sole songwriter. "I Want to Take You Higher" opens with a bluesy guitar riff played by Freddie Stone. The song, one of the most upbeat recordings in the Family Stone canon, is a remake of sorts of "Higher", a song from the band's 1968 "Dance to the Music" LP. "Higher" itself has its origins in "Advice", a song Sly Stone co-wrote and arranged for Billy Preston's album "The Wildest Organ In Town"
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Hero (Enrique Iglesias song)


high school days were the inspiration for the song. During a 2013 radio interview with Ryan Seacrest, he stated, "I went back to when I was 17 in high school, and this might be cheesy, but I thought about what would be the song I want to slow dance to with my prom date. When I wrote it, it felt good and ... I thought I know there is something special in this song." "Hero" was first released on 3 September 2001, just eight days prior to
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings


survive such trauma, Angelou explained it by stating, "I can't remember a time when I wasn't loved by somebody." When asked by the same interviewer why she wrote about the experience, she indicated that she wanted to demonstrate the complexities of rape. She also wanted to prevent it from happening to someone else, so that anyone who had been raped might gain understanding and not blame herself for it. As Lupton points out, all of Angelou's autobiographies, especially "Caged Bird" and its immediate sequel
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Abnormally Attracted to Sin


and composing both the song and the record as a whole were for her: "I wouldn’t have written this record if I hadn’t been pushed — for all kinds of reasons. I don’t want to go into all of it but “Maybe California” doesn't come from nowhere. You're not able to write that by having a drink with somebody who's had the experience and you haven't. You have to be pushed to that place." She speaks of the mother figure in the song:
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Do You Love Me


"I like it like that", as "You like it like this", and many other fad dances of the 1960s. The song is noted for the spoken recitation heard in the introduction which goes: "You broke my heart / 'Cause I couldn't dance / You didn't even want me around / And now I'm back / To let you know / I can really shake 'em down." The song has a false ending. Berry Gordy wrote "Do You Love Me" with the intention that
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A Promise (Xiu Xiu album)


in 2003's "Accordion Solo!" The album includes a stripped-down cover of Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car", of which Stewart said "That song really, very, very, very directly shaped how I wanted to write lyrics or what I wanted songs to be about...I wanted them to turn out in so far as the song very specifically narrates some particular horrible things that happen to somebody and there's no positive resolution in the end at all." Referring to the closing track, "Ian
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A. A. Milne


was a crusader against God." His best known comment on the subject was recalled on his death: He wrote in the poem "Explained": poemElizabeth Ann Said to her Nan: "Please will you tell me how God began? "Somebody" must have made Him. So Who could it be, 'cos I want to know?" /poem He also wrote in the poem "Vespers": poem"Oh! Thank you, God, for a lovely day. And what was the other I had to say?
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You Are Free


basically worked like that-- every few months getting together and essentially writing new songs." According to Marshall, Kasper helped her decide which of the 40 songs they recorded should make it onto the album. Marshall revealed that she chose Kasper because "I was looking for somebody who would let me do what I wanted to do, who's a really good engineer," and said that she saw him as an engineer, rather than a producer. Numerous songs on the album are performed solo, with only Marshall on vocals and
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Somebody's Crying


"Somebody's Crying" is a song by musician Chris Isaak from his fifth album, "Forever Blue". The song was released as the album's first single in May 1995. It also appears on his 2006 "Best of Chris Isaak" compilation. A live version is included on Isaak's 2008 "Live in Australia" album. Isaak wrote the song shortly after a breakup with his girlfriend. Isaak had attended a friend's party, but soon realized that he did not want to be there. He went
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