who sings the song i'd like to make it with you
Give You What You Like


"One day I was hungover, tired, vulnerable, and didn't want to sing, but he (Chad Kroeger) made me go in on 'Give You What You Like,' and do it anyway. The rawness of my vocals comes across in the song, which made it better. I'd have to do harmonies sometimes, and I'd start whining, and he'd want me to do 10 takes of vocals." "Give You What You Like" garnered critical acclaim from critics, who complimented
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Esther Williams


and Betty Garrett, who had also been in "Take Me Out to the Ball Game." In the film, Williams sings "Baby, It's Cold Outside" with Montalbán. The song won the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 22nd Academy Awards. Williams and Montalbán were originally slated to sing "(I'd Like to Get You on a) Slow Boat to China", but studio censors thought the song was too sexual (interpreting the word "get" as "have") and instead
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Not Meant to Be


DioGuardi wrote the song together at DioGuardi's house. Amazing. I went over to her place, drank some wine and we wrote 'Not Meant To Be' in 5 minutes. Our writing styles fit together so perfectly it was almost like it was 'meant to be. The best part about my job is that you never know who you are going to meet, and who's going to inspire you. Although I'd never worked with Tyler, when he started singing the song, I knew we were onto something
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I Was Here (song)


part of August 19th... It's such a beautiful, beautiful day, and I'd like to honor the 22 people who lost their lives. God bless you all. Thank you so much for having me." The music video for the song starts with Beyoncé singing the song with the U.N. audience seated in front of her, and images from recent disasters screening in panoramic view behind her. As the song progresses, scenes of globes and constellations turn up; laser lights and a small blue arrow, imprinted with the
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Boyz (song)


in the video, to "treat men the way they treat us". Given issues of homophobia in the country, M.I.A. explained "It's interesting that they are dancing and singing along to "How many, how many boys there?" and singing about boys. So… You know what I mean? So we were kind of subverting things and making them say something or accept something that they wouldn't otherwise. So I felt like I'd achieved something with that. They don't know that. [Laughs
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I'd Rather Be Dead (Than Be with You)


Daily Record" described the new single as "gorgeous, simple, devastating. An incredible return to form from one of Scotland's truly great storytellers." However, "NME" writer Nick Levine wrote: "here's a break-up song that makes 'We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together' sound soft. It's basically just piano and hate, and the way James Allan sings 'I'd rather be dead than be with you' could curdle custard." "All songs written by James Allan,
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(I'd Like to Get You on a) Slow Boat to China


1960. Ronnie Dove recorded the song for his 1966 album Ronnie Dove Sings the Hits for You. Bette Midler and Barry Manilow recorded the song for Midler's album "Bette Midler Sings the Rosemary Clooney Songbook" (2003). Miss Piggy performed the song with actor Roger Moore in an episode of "The Muppet Show". Paul McCartney sang this song to honor Frank Loesser. Frank Loesser's daughter, Susan Loesser, authored a biography of her father, "A Most Remarkable Fella" (1993), in which
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September Song


song. Other changes involve the point of view of the singer — in Huston's version, the activities of the young man are described in the second person to the girl ("When you meet with a young "). Contemporary versions make the singer the young man ("When I was a young "). One difference between Huston's version and other versions is the final line: Huston sings, "These precious days I'd spend with you", whereas later singers tend to sing, "These precious days spend
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Oceans (Pearl Jam song)


never seen anyone engage with song writing the same way. Here's the song, let me play it for you. It goes like this. Okay, theres a change here, let's do it and he would sing it. I'd hear the melodies and I'd think, okay, he's gonna write words or whatever and then I realized later that he actually had written the words right there. I couldn't understand how somebody could do that. Since then I've met a lot of people
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Spiders (album)


see Space fans happily bop along whilst singing lines like 'Kill me, kill me/Oh won't you kill me,'" adding that "if the music sounded like some of the lyrics, I'd probably kill me-self. I like seeing your average grandmother or mum on the street singing along to 'Mister Psycho' but not realizing she's singing a song about a psychopath." Fearing some might misinterpret the lyrical intention, Scott affirmed "it's not done in a macho way. We're
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Johnny Mathis Sings


as far as my note selections were concerned…a producer who listens to you and says, "I like what you’re doing, but I hate that last note you made. Don't do that…do this." It just didn't work as well as it did at Columbia.'" The time at Mercury may have been frustrating, but it did begin a new path in terms of song selection. "'I'd listen to the stuff [recorded at Mercury] and wish I had a chance
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Lyn Paul


of their earlier hits, but Paul was gradually entrusted with a lot of the lead parts. She was the featured vocalist on their 1972 Eurovision Song Contest entry, "Beg, Steal or Borrow" in which they came second. She was also lead vocalist on the 1974 No.1 hit "You Won't Find Another Fool Like Me" and the No.5 single, "I Get A Little Sentimental Over You". Among the group's other works, they recorded the song "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing
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Meat Loaf


singles that hit the top 40, including "I'd Lie for You" (which reached No. 13 in the United States and No. 2 in the United Kingdom charts), and "Not a Dry Eye in the House" (which reached No. 7 in the UK charts). "I'd Lie for You (And That's the Truth)" was a duet with Patti Russo, who had been touring with Meat Loaf and singing on his albums since 1993. Of the twelve songs on the
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Who's That Girl World Tour


Madonna's going for a certain kind of show: a Broadway, show-biz, song-and-dance spectacle. In that context it's hard to make a connection with the audience, and I'd have to say that she didn't." Peter Goddard from "Toronto Star" reviewed the concert in CNE Stadium and said, "Madonna proved that she may be a lost girl in the roads of life, like her film, but she ain't lost when she is singing. Especially during songs like
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Angels and Agony


contrast with many electro-industrial projects whose lyrics center on violence and provocation, Angels and Agony songs are philosophical and humanist in character. To this Renier replied: "The lyrics are meant to be 'universal', multi-interpretable and objective, in a way... I'm just not the guy to write songs, singing 'Fuck' 116 times in 4 minutes, or singing I'd like to cut up my bitch or what have you not." Metropolis Records describes the band's music thus: "Although
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Person of Interest (song)


when you're not in love yet but you really like a guy — which I'm really excited about because I don't think there are too many out like that. It's very much a dance type song. It will make you get up and dance and sing along in your car." The song opens with Black singing "When I talk, you listen, I like that/When you listen, you smile and I like that/Why you lookin' lookin' at me just like that?"
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Who Am I (Katy B song)


I'd have to give up my band, my friends, my whole identity, start again from scratch. You don't just lose a person in a break-up. Others might lose their home, even their child and family, I think of people going through divorces when I sing it, too. It was originally a solo song, and I still don't really see it as me singing to Craig, we're the same person singing the same song." "Who Am I" has received generally
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I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony)


"I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony)" is a pop song that originated as the jingle "Buy the World a Coke" in the groundbreaking 1971 "Hilltop" television commercial for Coca-Cola and sung by The Hillside Singers. "Buy the World a Coke" was produced by Billy Davis and portrayed a positive message of hope and love, featuring a multicultural collection of teenagers on top of a hill appearing to sing the song. The popularity of the jingle led to it being
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Que reste-t-il de nos amours ?


songs [record producer] Voyle Gilmore...played a bunch of standards [then] said: 'I want to play you a really pretty French song...it won't mean nothing and you won't do it in the album but I just thought I'd play it for you' and he played 'I Wish You Love'. So, at the end of him playing all these songs...I said: 'Babe, I'll sing any 11 songs y'all want me to but I want to sing '
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It Girl (Jason Derulo song)


found my It Girl, to make myself feel like if I found that one true love. I've basically described what it would be like if I found her." Derulo further elaborated about the concept of the song in another interview with Matt Elias of MTV News: An 'It Girl' to me is someone who is selfless, someone who's always thinking about others before she thinks about herself. You know, my mom is a very charitable woman, so I'd want someone who is in line with that
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Out of Nothing


hours sleep a night. Every morning I'd get up and have to take a pill just to stay calm that day. The amount of arguments and throwing shit...It was really intense." Youth changed McNamara's song structures, his lyrics, and pushed him to sing with more emotion. Said McNamara: "There were times I hated him. I'd ring our manager and have meetings with the label, where I'd say, 'Look, can you tell him who's boss? 'Cause he's not
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Doubleback: Evolution of R&B


White was doing it, Stevie Wonder, Tina Turner [...] If you love singing and this style of r&b, just incorporate it into what you do, that's what makes things more beautiful." The singer worked with a small group of musicians on the album, including San Francisco-based producer D.O.A., who contributed “I'd Rather Have a Love” and the duet “Love & Sex”. Singer Fantasia appears on the latter, while rapper Fat Joe recorded vocals for the remix of “I'd
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I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony)


the "Billboard" Hot 100 and #5 on Billboard's Easy Listening chart. "Billboard" ranked this version as the No. 97 song for 1972. The New Seekers later recorded the song and sold 96,000 copies of their record in one day, eventually selling 12 million total. "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony)" climbed to UK #1 and US #7 in 1971 and 1972. The song became a gold record in the U.S., and has also sold over
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La Llorona (song)


noise, Llorona, And their pain is much greater! There are dead that do not make noise, Llorona, And their pain is much greater! If I could climb to the sky, Llorona, I'd lower the stars to you, If I could climb to the sky, Llorona, I'd lower the stars to you, The Moon at your feet I'd put, Llorona With the sun I'd crown you The Moon at your feet I'd put, Llorona With the sun I'd crown you Alas
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On My Own (Patti LaBelle and Michael McDonald song)


1986 in the UK). The song was initially not intended to be a duet at all, but LaBelle decided to invite McDonald to help her turn the song into a duet, as she stated: "The song was sent to me and I did a version of it but somehow it just didn't quite work. We were going over things I'd done and we talked about turning it into a duet. Someone asked, 'If you could do it with anyone, who would you sing it with?'
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Stop, I Don't Love You Anymore


', Spiteri explained how the song and track first came about: "It was funny, because my daughter inspired me to write that title! She loves music, and we were upstairs singing away when she suddenly started going 'Stop, baby - I don't love you!'! And I was like 'That's IT! Stop, I don't love you anymore!'! You know, as a five-year-old she said in such a simple way exactly what I'd been trying to
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Sexy Sadie


called him, 'Sexy Sadie,' instead of (sings) 'Maharishi what have you done, you made a fool...' I was just using the situation to write a song, rather calculatingly but also to express what I felt. I was leaving the Maharishi with a bad taste. You know, it seems that my partings are always not as nice as I'd like them to be." He told "Rolling Stone" that when the Maharishi asked why he was leaving, he replied, "Well
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Blue Sky (song)


how nice it would be to keep the vernaculars—he and she—out and make it like you’re thinking of the spirit, like I was giving thanks for a beautiful day. I think that made it broader and more relatable to anyone and everyone," he later said. Betts initially wanted the band's lead vocalist, Gregg Allman, to sing the song, but guitarist Duane Allman encouraged him to sing it himself: "Man, this is your song and it sounds like you and you need to sing
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Between You & Me (Betty Who song)


Who singing "It’s too crowded in this bar. We’ve been small-talking so far. I can’t tell if we’re friends. You sure like to make fun of my ex. But we never get past this part." Nicole Engelman of "Billboard" expressed that, throughout the song, Who longs for "more than friendship" from her friend and love interest. Who sings, "Don’t wanna give myself away, because I’m trying so hard not to say," followed by
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Carlos Puebla


in Che. On 12 July 1989, he died in Havana after a long illness. His ashes were transferred to the cemetery of his native city five years later. A plaque there reads: "yo soy ésto que soy, un simple trovador que canta" ("I am what I am, a simple troubadour who sings"). Puebla began by writing love songs, such as "Quiero hablar contigo" (I'd like to talk with you), "Este amor de nosotros" (~This love of
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Best I Ever Had (Gavin DeGraw song)


Had" was the first single from singer-songwriter Gavin DeGraw's fifth album, "Make a Move". It was a collaboration with Boys Like Girls' lead singer and songwriter Martin Johnson. DeGraw explains the beginning of the creation of this song by saying, "I'm sitting in the room with Martin Johnson, the guy I'd been writing with before who's really gifted, and he's like, 'Hey man, what do you think of this track?' He just starts playing this jangle-
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No Light, No Light


in the tale of what appears to be a humdinger of a domestic – 'Kiss with a Fist', but more grown-up, and colder. 'I'd do anything to make you stay,' she sings, before switching tack: 'You want a revelation, no light no light in your bright blue eyes.' Like the rest of these tracks, it's kitchen sink and then some, but there's a little more texture here." In the review of the album, Lewis Corner of
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Freak like Me


one million copies. The song's drum beat is sampled from Sly & the Family Stone's "Sing a Simple Song". The song also samples "I'd Rather Be with You" by Bootsy's Rubber Band. Hence, Eugene Hanes, Marc Valentine, William "Bootsy" Collins, and George Clinton's son George Jr. (the last of whom died in 2010) are credited as joint authors and composers. The original music video was directed by Hype Williams. In 2000, a collaboration between two UK garage
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Regine Velasquez


at times" and observed her singing as "aiming for a higher [note], [which] she did all too often." Velasquez said of the constant scrutiny, "I don't mean to make any songs hard. It's just that when I'm on stage, with the adrenaline rush and all, you get excited. I do try to hold back [because] otherwise I'd be screaming the whole show, that's not good." Velasquez's vocal style and singing ability have significantly impacted
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I Want It That Way


Kevin Richardson, member of the band, explained in an interview that, "Ultimately the song really doesn't make much sense." Richardson also wrote that Max Martin, who co-wrote and co-produced the song, barely spoke English. "His English has gotten much better, but at the time ...", said Richardson. "There are a lot of songs out there like that don't make sense," he continues, "but make you feel good when you sing along to them, and
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Two of Us (Louis Tomlinson song)


. In a way, I feel like I'd been avoiding writing this song because I knew I only had one chance to get it right." The chorus of the song features Tomlinson singing "I will be the best of me, always keep you next to me, I'll be living one life for the two of us". The official video release of the song, in which he helps Richard fulfil items on his 'bucket list' has a piece of text at the end in which he urges people
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Morning Phase


, and that the recording process for "Modern Guilt" was like "doing it with both hands tied behind your back. It hurt to sing. I'm whispering through half of those vocals." On the other hand, Beck said that "Morning Phase" was a much more satisfying experience: "Some of the songs on the new record – I get to shout and yell. I'm like, 'Thank you!' I had a lot of ideas and things I'd been wanting to do. This
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Simon & Garfunkel


but said: "I know that audiences all over the world like Simon and Garfunkel. I'm with them. But I don't think Paul Simon's with them." Asked about a reunion in 2016, Simon stated: "Quite honestly, we don't get along. So it's not like it's fun. If it was fun, I'd say, OK, sometimes we'll go out and sing old songs in harmony. That's cool. But when it's not fun, you know,
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Express Yourself (Madonna song)


background singing. The chorus is aided by instrumentation from a saxophone and percussion. Madonna then sings the first verse of the song, as a violin sound is added after she finishes the bridge, "Make you feel like a queen on the throne, make you love it till you never come down", a male voice repeating the last line. A synthesizer is played after the second verse as Madonna continues chanting the words "Express yourself" with background vocals singing "Hey, hey, hey, hey" alongside her
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Me Too (Meghan Trainor song)


"why we should all want to be like her". In a chorus, which has been described as "catchy" by Fuse's Shannon Mages, Trainor sings, "If I was you, I'd wanna be me too". According to Erin Jensen of "USA Today", the song portrays Trainor's boldness and confidence, and features her "feeling herself". "Me Too" reveals the layers of Trainor's "unabashed confidence", and shows that it comes from a place of "bonafide
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Sing, Boy, Sing


that ever happened to me." "I prefer the school of realism," said Sands. "I'd like to play dramatic teenage parts because I feel I know this kind of boy. Like him, I have many inhibitions and I'm not exactly sure what makes me tick." Songs on the show included "Teen-Age Crush" and "Hep Dee Hootie" as well as "Rock of Ages". The show was well received and turned Sands into a teen idol. He received eight times
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I'd Do Anything (Oliver! song)


Ghetto Anthem)". This song originally appears as a bonus track on Jay-Z's "Vol. 3... Life and Times of S. Carter". In 2008–2009, the instrumental of "I'd Do Anything" was used in a HSBC commercial. Latterly, the song was used in a series of anti-smoking public information films, with various groups of children singing the song (different lines for different groups of children). The campaign's message was: "Your kids would do anything for you.
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Sometime Samurai


the time Tei was working on his fifth studio album "Flash" in late 2003, Minogue contacted Tei for the first time in years, she said: "I can't get over that song either. I should be able to sing it better now, so I'd like to re-record it. Can you come to London?" The song was finally completed in London and was later included on Tei's album. Dan Grunebaum from Japanese English-language magazine "Metropolis" described the track: "[
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You Know My Name


". "I decided that I was going to sing it like Tom Jones, in that crooning style. I wanted people to hear my voice," Cornell said. "And 'Live and Let Die' is a fantastic song. Paul McCartney wouldn't have written it if not for that movie. I [also] wanted to write a song in its own universe. I knew I'd never have it again — a big orchestra — so I wanted to have fun with it." Cornell did not put
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Congregation (song)


Brown: "Zac Brown is an enormous country star. I met him in a store and he asked me to produce an album. I'd never heard of him. I said to someone, 'Zac Brown has asked me to produce him' - they said, 'You should do it, he's huge' So I did the record without hearing any of his songs." Grohl also explained that the lyrics: "And they're singing like a bluebird in the round," references Nashville's iconic Bluebird
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I'd Rather Believe in You


first single failed. A different version of the song, in which the lyrics are directed toward God instead of a lover, was recorded by the contemporary Christian singing group the Imperials for their 1980 album "Priority", which was also produced by Omartian. In 1976, Cher recorded two other songs: "A Love Like Yours (Don't Come Knockin' Everyday)," a duet with Harry Nilsson, and "Pirate" (from her album "Cherished" which was released a year later), the latter
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Calvin Harris


two albums] and it takes a long time to make me sound good, which is why I stopped singing live as well. I'd like to think of someone who's better-looking, a better singer, better dancer to be the frontperson for the song." He also released several remixes, including remixes of Shakira's "She Wolf", Katy Perry's "Waking Up in Vegas", Mr Hudson's "Supernova" (featuring Kanye West), and Mika's "We Are Golden".
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Harry and the Potters


of adolescent concerns and direness in the simplest of worries gives the songs their easy likeability. They poke fun at awkward situations from the books. For example, in the song "The Human Hosepipe", they sing, "Maybe you shouldn't have brought up Cedric Diggory/ Because I'd rather not talk about your dead ex-boyfriends over coffee." Two other examples of the bands distinctive take on teenage angst are seen in the song "Save Ginny Weasley" where they sing, "Are you petrified of being petrified
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Jeremy Paxman


theme was replaced with "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing" by The New Seekers. The programme ended with a brief post-credits scene with Paxman standing in front of a weather map exclaiming "Tomorrow's weather: more of the same! I don't know why they make such a fuss about it" in reference to the 2005 weather forecasts. Paxman has presented the weekly TV programme review "Did You See...?", "You Decide" and, since 1994, "University Challenge"
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Larry Seaquist


" from 25 April 1986 through 26 May 1988. He was renowned on USS Iowa at choosing an enlisted crew member each day, telling them to be on the bridge at 1800 hours and have a song ready which the crew member had to create. At 1800 hours, the Captain would announce "I'd like to introduce you to today's singing bosun mate, at which time the crew member had to sing over the ships 1MC announcement system to the entire crew. He served as a technical adviser for the 2001 film
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I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)


." It is the abridged seven-minute version, rather than the twelve-minute (11:58) album version. The actress in the video, Dana Patrick, is miming to Crosby's vocals; she did the same for Patti Russo's vocals in the 1995 song "I'd Lie for You (And That's the Truth)". According to the captions aired on "Pop-Up Video", Patrick received several offers for record deals after the video aired, from executives who assumed she was actually singing
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Free as Air


never marry him and there is a gently growing sympathy between her and Albert ("I'd Like To Be Like You"). Lord Paul, captivated by Ivy's admiration of him, shows her round the Island. The Islanders sing her a folk song which tells the story of the Roman occupation ("Testudo"). Jack half-responds to Molly's uninhibited advances and consents to take her to London ("I've Got My Feet On The Ground"). Ivy almost persuades the Islanders to turn
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Small Change (Tom Waits album)


. When asked in interview by "Mojo" magazine in 1999 if he shared many fans' view that "Small Change" was the crowning moment of his "beatnik-glory-meets-Hollywood-noir period" (i.e. from 1973 to 1980), Waits replied Well, gee. I'd say there's probably more songs off that record that I continued to play on the road, and that endured. Some songs you may write and record but you never sing them again. Others you sing em every night
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She Loves You


" with its call and response pattern, and that "as often happens, you think of one song when you write another ... I'd planned an 'answering song' where a couple of us would sing 'she loves you' and the other ones would answer 'yeah yeah'. We decided that was a crummy idea but at least we then had the idea of a song called 'She Loves You'. So we sat in the hotel bedroom for a few hours and wrote it – John and I,
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Make Me... (Britney Spears song)


'raise [her] roof.'" In the chorus, she sings: "I just want you to make me move like it ain’t a choice for you, like you got a job to do/ Just want you to raise my roof, something sensational. And make me ooh, ooh, ooh." As noted by "Billboard" staff, the second part of the song features "sexy" lyrics such as "No rules/From the bar to the car, let's take it back to
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I'd Do It All Again


introduce myself to people. Because it just starts with me playing my guitar and singing, but then all the different layers come in. And I really like the fact that it grows and swells to just one chorus, and then it retreats again. You know, it follows an unusual song form, and I felt it was an honest and raw song about love when things are difficult." The music video was directed by Jamie Thraves. Corinne Bailey Rae had been familiar with Thraves previous music videos, calling them "
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Bye Bye Baby (Madonna song)


beats per minute. It is composed in the key of F minor, with Madonna's voice in a high register, spanning between F to A. The song has a basic sequence of G–B–G–D–G–Dm as its chord progression. In the song, lyrically Madonna asks questions for a lover she is about to abandon: "Does it make you feel good to see me cry? I think it does", she affirms. The lyric "I'd like to hurt you" was
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Rather Die Young


Similarly, "Rolling Stone"s Matthew Perpetua wrote, "There's a great melodramatic kick to this song, which comes across like a quiet storm slow jam spiced up with modern drum programming. 'I'd rather not live at all than live my life without you' is an unusually self-pitying lyric for Beyoncé, but she sells it well regardless." Conrad Tao of Sputnikmusic showed high favoritism for the song, writing: [Knowles'] utterance of 'you're my James Dean / you make me feel like
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Baby I Love U!


music she had often turned to while growing up. Using songs by Stevie Wonder, Luther Vandross and others as inspiration, she attempted to elicit a similar feeling in her own songwriting, claiming, "Those were just songs that made my heart sing", she said. "They just stay with you. ... I wanted to do something that's true to me and how I grew up, but I also wanted to make beautiful songs. So I'd listen to records from today and I would listen to records from
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I'd Have You Anytime


at greater things to come". Elliot Huntley similarly views "I'd Have You Anytime" as the "perfect choice" for the first song, and praises the "drifting quality" of Harrison's vocals on this "haunting, dream-like lullaby", as well as Clapton's "tastefully beautiful" lead guitar. Simon Leng considers the track to be "Beautifully sung" and "evidence that 'Something' was no fluke". The Harrison–Dylan demo of "I'd Have You Anytime" has
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Someone like You (Adele song)


" concluded, "Adele's 'Someone Like You' could make a tough guy weep. Her tone was gorgeous." Rating the performance with A, Claire Suddath of "Time" magazine said "it's heartening to hear a truly talented woman sing a mournful torch song for someone who has left her for someone better. And if her stellar performance, accompanied by only a piano, isn't enough to melt your heart, then her nervous wave to the audience at the end definitely will." A writer of
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You Make It Feel Like Christmas


", written and composed by James Lord Pierpont. Stefani sings "with an upbeat tone against a horn section" which Allan Raible, from ABC News, considered reminiscent of her ska punk days with No Doubt. "Let It Snow" is the second track and like "Jingle Bells", features Stefani performing with a "merry demeanor". The third song – "My Gift Is You" – is the first original song on "You Make It Feel Like Christmas" penned by Stefani, Tranter, and Busbee
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End of Time (song)


her vocal lines over a shooting horn sequence; with her multiple-layered vocals, she commands, "Boy come to me", and towards the end, she repeatedly sings, "Say you’ll never let me go". Knowles "finds the strength in two" as she affirms to her romantic interest, "I just wanna be with you / I just wanna live for you / I'd never let you go!". "End of Time" was lauded by music critics, who appreciated its production
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Wings (Delta Goodrem song)


In the chorus, she sings: "What if I lose my self-control? What if I choose to let it go? I wanna let you and me collide / Baby, these wings were made, these wings were made to fly." While commenting about the song, Goodrem explained: "I wanted to make sure I had a song that incorporated all the things that make me feel like a powerful woman... you always want a song to represent where you are now. I feel like the most important
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Sull'aria...che soave zeffiretto


...] I'd like to think they were singing about something so beautiful it can't be expressed in words, and it makes your heart ache because of it." This is ironic as the opera characters are singing about a duplicitous love letter to expose infidelity, and Dufresne's wife's affair is the event which indirectly leads to his imprisonment. The duettino, sung by the sopranos Edith Mathis and Gundula Janowitz, appeared in the film's soundtrack. It was nominated as one of 400 songs in consideration for the American
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Letter to God (song)


to the song was mixed. "NME" said upon the announcement of Hole's reunion that "Letter to God" was "a confessional power ballad from Perry’s box of hits" with Love implying that the editor was a fan of song, joking that "you guys are the NME, you're not supposed to like this song. I'd be worried if you did!" Entertainment Weekly described the song as "nakedly vulnerable" and "she [Love] mines something deeper — a girl who may still
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The Way You Make Me Feel


, was present "to a lesser extent in the love songs "The Way You Make Me Feel" and "Liberian Girl", which deal more with surrender than conquest or self-gratification." "The Washington Post" Rickard Harrington commented that on songs like "The Way You Make Me Feel," Jackson "sings the way he dances". "The Way You Make Me Feel" tied at number 22 on "The Village Voice"s Pazz & Jop critics' poll of 1987. "The Way You Make
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I'd Have You Anytime


, and Fabulous Connections with Kate Vereau, who recorded "I'd Have You Anytime" and Harrison's "Learning How to Love You" for their 2003 album "Into Midnight". Actor and singer Evan Rachel Wood contributed a cover of "I'd Have You Anytime" to the 4-CD compilation "Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International" in 2012. Wood filmed a video clip for the song in February that year, as a tribute to Harrison on what would have been
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I Knew I'd Want You


risky to release a poetic song like "Mr. Tambourine Man" as the A-side of the Byrds' first single and wanted "I Knew I'd Want You" to be the A-side instead, but at the insistence of producer Terry Melcher, "Mr. Tambourine Man" was ultimately released as the A-side. The "Mr. Tambourine Man" single reached number 1 on the "Billboard" Hot 100. Matthew Greenwald calls "I Knew I'd Want You" a "highlight" of "Mr.
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No Light, No Light


lyrical go-to's-- ghosts, graveyards, devils, angels, myths, drowning-- for something a bit more personal." During the musical bridge of the song, Welch sings the lines "Would you leave me, if I told you what I'd become. 'Cause it's so easy to sing it to a crowd/ But it's so hard, my love/ To say it to you out loud", which according to Mapes shows Welch "on her knees, begging her lover not to go". Alix Buscovic of
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Buddy Pepper


of LIFE Magazine. Throughout the rest of the tour, he and Garland appeared in England, Ireland, and Scotland, performing at the Palladium and the Palace Theatre in Manchester, as well as in the cities of Glasgow, Dublin, Edinburgh, and Birmingham. During an earlier appearance in the tour, Garland, before singing the song "Just One Of Those Things," introduced Pepper to the audience, saying, "Before I go any further, ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to introduce you to a young
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Planet Waves


we were mixing [the album]. All of a sudden, he came in and said, 'I'd like to try 'Dirge' on the piano.'...We put up a tape and he said to Robbie, 'Maybe you could play guitar on this.' They did it once, Bob playing piano and singing, and Robbie playing acoustic guitar. The second time was the take." Critic Bill Wyman described "Planet Waves" via Salon.com as "a spare but twisted collection of songs"
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Blue Mink


by Albert Hammond) anonymously on the Deacon Records budget compilation album "Pick of the Pops". In April, Cook and Greenaway played briefly in Currant Kraze, and together they continued to write songs such as "You've Got Your Troubles", "I've Got You on My Mind" and "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing". Other side projects included: involvement with Parker's band The Congregation; Herbie Flowers' contributions to Lou Reed's "Transformer" album; and the involvement of
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Low (Kelly Clarkson song)


single. I knew it was a great song. I’m happy it saw the light of day." "Low" was written by Jimmy Harry and produced by Cliff Magness, who also arranged and engineered the track. The midtempo country-flavored track finds the singer reflecting on a broken relationship. "It's cool you didn't want me/ Sometimes you can't go back/ But why'd you have to go and make a mess like that?" she sings before asking in the chorus: "Have you ever
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Blackbird (Beatles song)


] in the last year or so because I've got a poetry book out called "Blackbird Singing", and when I would read "Blackbird", I would always try and think of some explanation to tell the people … So, I was doing explanations, and I actually just remembered why I'd written "Blackbird", you know, that I'd been, I was in Scotland playing on my guitar, and I remembered this whole idea of "you were only waiting for this moment to arise" was
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(You Drive Me) Crazy Tour


, so if you listen to the music and watch the screen, they don't sync up. I think that confuses people. But I'm singing every song. I'm singing my ass off. [...] There are times during the show, when I'm dancing so much, where I get out of breath, and we have a signal where I'm dying and they'll help me out. Believe me, I'd give anything to do a show where I just sit there and sing". On
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Down with Webster


Davina Sinnatamby of "Tangible Sound" gave the album a 4/5, closing her review with "So if you feel like a shot of something stronger that caffeine or alcohol; I'd recommend listening to this whole album. The songs don't just make you want to get up and dance; the fast rhythms, smooth rhymes and poetic lyrics make you want to live forever." After a few years without producing any music or performing any live shows, the band posted on their Facebook on June 2, 2017, that
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I Love You (Miss Robot)


" is an electropop new wave song. Downes is also a vocalist on the track, which he sings through a vocoder. He said that "I Love You" was really about "being on the road and making love to someone you don't really like, while all the time you're wanting to phone someone who's a long way off." Despite this, AllMusic, in their review of "The Age of Plastic", considered the song to be about "a metaphorical love affair with a robot"
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If You Were a Sailboat


twenty-three on the UK Singles Chart. Mark Radcliffe of BBC Radio 2 was amused by the lyric 'If you were a piece of wood, I'd nail you to the floor', and asked his listeners to send in equally strange lyrics and compose a parody song for her to sing, not expecting her to actually do so. However, as she also did on another show with "Nine Million Bicycles", Melua contacted the show and agreed to play the song. The lyrics included 'If you were
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Stretchin' Out in Bootsy's Rubber Band


, appearing in at least 40 other hip-hop and R&B songs. In 1991, "I'd Rather Be With You" was sampled by Eazy-E in N.W.A's "I'd Rather Fuck You" from their album "Niggaz4Life". 1995 saw the song sampled again in Adina Howard's hit single "Freak Like Me". 2Pac sampled the tune in "Ratha Be Ya Nigga" on his album "All Eyez on Me". Beyoncé interpolated the chorus in her composition "Be With You" on
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You Make It Feel Like Christmas (song)


of lights that make it glow". According to "E! News"s Cydney Contreras, Stefani "joyously sings about how she thought she "was done for [and] thought that love had died"; however, she disregards her assumptions after being romantically involved with Shelton, who helps make it "feel like Christmas". The couple discusses love and name-drops holiday-themed items, such as snow and "sweet gingerbread made with molasses", within the lyrics. Allan Raible from ABC News admired the song
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Once More, with Feeling (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)


specifically in "Something to Sing About", which starts with uptempo platitudes: "We'll sing a happy song / And you can sing along: / Where there's life, there's hope / Every day's a gift / Wishes can come true / Whistle while you work ..." While singing, she kills Sweet's minions with a pool cue. Whedon attempted to make the song tuneful yet chaotic to express the main point of the episode. It transitions suddenly into her desire to be like normal girls, then
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The Voice UK (series 5)


fan!" The following day, Jones uploaded a new song on his YouTube channel entitled "Why Don't You Love Me Like You Used To Do?", with the accompanying message on Facebook: "This is a song I recently recorded, just happens to fit the bill! I'd like to thank everyone who's been so kind to me lately, except for those few, this is dedicated to them". Around 40,000 people applied to be on this series of "The Voice". A month before
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Someone like You (Adele song)


downloads in the United States alone. The music video for the song was filmed in Paris, France, by English director Jake Nava who said: The video begins with a shot of a road in Paris and Adele is seen walking on it alone. She continues to walk and starts singing the song with a sad look as the camera makes circles and shots more locations in Paris including the Eiffel Tower. During the second chorus, Adele stops singing and pauses on the Pont Alexandre III to look over the Seine. She continues
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I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony)


who liked it. Billy Davis' friends in radio suggested he record the song, but not as an advertising jingle. It became so popular that the song was rewritten without brand name references and expanded to three verses. Davis recruited a group of studio singers to take it on because The New Seekers did not have time to record it. The studio group named themselves The Hillside Singers to identify with the ad, and within two weeks the song was on the national charts. The Hillside Singers' version reached #13 on
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You Oughta Know


the song from her "subconscious": "I wasn't aware of what was coming out of me. I'd go into the booth when the ink wasn't even dry and sing. I'd listen the next day and not really remember it." Los Angeles record producer Jimmy Boyle supervised the engineering of the project and subsequently made the connection to get the demo tape into Maverick Records. Besides giving the song a more aggressive and angry sound, Boyle convinced friends Dave Navarro and Flea to play guitar and bass guitar
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Grenade (song)


" believes that the production of "Grenade" resembles the one in "Just The Way You Are". Lyrically, the song contains masochistic themes and tells the story of heartbreak caused by a failed relationship: "Gave you all I had / And you tossed it in the trash". The chorus has Mars singing, "I'd catch a grenade for ya," and speaks of unrequited love when the subject girl of his affections "won't do the same". Tim Byron, writer for The Vine,
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Blue Jeans (Lana Del Rey song)


(1983). Over surf rock guitar twangs, Del Rey sings, "Love is mean and love hurts/ But I still remember that day we met in December". Low fidelity string instruments soar over the refrain, as Del Rey belts: "I will love you till the end of time." During a fit of PDA with her fictional boyfriend, Del Rey sings, "You went out every night/ And baby, that's alright/ I told you that no matter what you did I'd be by your side
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Eleanor McEvoy


running through the journey of her writing and singing career. "If You Leave..." McEvoy's tenth studio album was released 6 May 2013. It features eight new songs and four interpretations including "God Only Knows", "True Colors", and "Lift The Wings" from "Riverdance". Said McEvoy, "I'd been listening to a lot of 60s albums, Stones, Beatles, Beach Boys stuff like that and it was with the spirit of those albums in my musical soul that I entered the
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Sonny Bono


's solo recording career, writing and producing singles including "Bang Bang" and "You Better Sit Down Kids". Bono co-wrote "She Said Yeah", covered by The Rolling Stones on their 1965 LP "December's Children". His lone hit single as a solo artist, "Laugh at Me," was released in 1965 and peaked at No. 10 on the "Billboard" Hot 100. In live concerts, Bono would introduce the song by saying "I'd like to sing a medley
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The Mikado", W. S. Gilbert makes the Lord High Executioner sing of a "little list" which includes: ... apologetic statesmen of a compromising kind, Such as: What d'ye call him: Thing'em-bob, and likewise: Never-mind, and 'St: 'st: 'st: and What's-his-name, and also You-know-who: The task of filling up the blanks I'd rather leave to you. Some fields have their own specific placeholder terminology. For example,
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Birthday Cake (song)


Nothing else like this, I'ma make you my bitch/ And it's not even my birthday/ But you wanna put your name on it" is a metaphor referring to a vagina. Rihanna sings about the desire to have spontaneous sex. Rihanna promises her lover that she will make him do whatever she pleases, singing "I'mma make you my bitch." T'Cha Dunlevy of "The Montreal Gazette" described the lyric as a "promise", with Rihanna intending to act upon her desires. The interlude ends mid-
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Beautiful: The Carole King Musical


well until the last song, which she is afraid to sing. It's a song she wrote with Gerry and she is afraid of the feelings it may stir up. Her producer, Lou Adler, persuades her. She sings "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman". The album is a smash. Carole is at Carnegie Hall for her concert, and is met by Gerry, who apologizes for the way he mistreated her in the past and gives her a final prediction - "you're going
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Everlong


Grohl turned the initial riff into a complete song and wrote the lyrics after falling for Louise Post of the band Veruca Salt: "That song's about a girl that I'd fallen in love with and it was basically about being connected to someone so much, that not only do you love them physically and spiritually, but when you sing along with them you harmonize perfectly." The music video for "Everlong" was nominated for Best Rock Video at the 1998 MTV Video Music Awards. The surreal, satirical video for
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Money's Too Tight (to Mention)


the American economy. The lyrics include the lines "the old man that's over the hill", and "did the earth move for you, Nancy?" He wants to borrow money, first from his brother who responds,"Brother I'd like to help you but I'm unable to", then to his "Father, Father, almighty Father" who then responds "Money's too tight to mention". A pastiche of the song was recorded and used as the theme song for the Australian investment television program "
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Can't Get Used to Losing You


the choruses so the listener hears Andy singing harmony with himself. The song appears on an album entitled "Days of Wine and Roses and Other TV Requests" in North America and "Can't Get Used to Losing You and Other Requests" in the United Kingdom. In 1963 Patti Page recorded a version of the song, with strings background, as part of the "Say Wonderful Things" album. In the same year Paul Anka sang the song on the album "Song I Wish I'd Written;" Julie London
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Wendy Jo Smith


of the Wendy Ho persona called "Hot Coco", who sings a song entitled "Yo Stank" from an album called "The Gospel According to Coco" (the name of which parodies the title of Smith's first album). After the performance Coolidge stated that, "Wendy Ho is about as cool as it gets. I'd never seen anything like her." The song "Fuck Me" became a favorite among drag queens in the United States, who began commonly performing to the song after its release
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Indestructible (Robyn song)


, where the protagonist makes bad decisions; "I never was smart with love, I let the bad ones in and the good ones go". In the chorus, Robyn sings "I'm gonna love you like I've never been hurt before/I'm gonna love you like I'm indestructible." Fraser McAlpine of BBC Music noted that Robyn sings "tough and knowing" and "pessimistically optimistic" lines, but manages to make it sound romantic for the listener. Emma Gaedekke of "Billboard" commented
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John Cooper (musician)


, anything with guitars, you couldn't have long hair, you couldn't do this and you couldn't do that. Everything was so lifeless. I know I'd read the Bible and be like...'This isn't what the Bible says. I like the idea of living for Jesus, but I hate the idea of living for you.' Ya know?" Cooper came from a musical family. His mother was a piano teacher and a singer in the church that he went to. He began singing at
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Only in Dreams (song)


of/likes the most, Rivers Cuomo answered, "I'd have to go with 'Only in Dreams' and ["Make Believe" track] 'Haunt You Every Day' for sheer length. Epic, epic, epic. So few people play these kinds of solos anymore." "IGN" included "Only in Dreams" on their "Weezer Ultimate Mix" list, where they listed what songs they want to be compiled into a Weezer collection and called the song "the "Stairway to Heaven"
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