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Pinkard & Bowden


Help Me Make It Through the Night (Help Me Make Through The Yard)," Johnny Cash's "Daddy Sang Bass," Tanya Tucker's "Delta Dawn," B.J. Thomas' "(Hey Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song," Eddie Rabbitt's "Drivin' My Life Away," Claude King's "Wolverton Mountain," Willie Nelson's "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" and Michael Martin Murphey's "What's Forever For." This album also included their
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Kris Kristofferson


79". On November 18, 1979, Kristofferson and Coolidge appeared on "The Muppet Show", where Kristofferson sang "Help Me Make It Through the Night" with Miss Piggy, Coolidge sang "We're All Alone" with forest animals, and the pair sang "Song I'd Like to Sing" with the Muppet monsters. In 1982, Kristofferson participated (with Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, and Brenda Lee) on "The Winning Hand", a double album consisting of remastered and updated performances of recordings
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Ringo Starr


Sir Richard Starkey (born 7 July 1940), known professionally as Ringo Starr, is an English musician and actor who gained worldwide fame as the drummer for the Beatles. He occasionally sang lead vocals with the group, usually for one song on each album, including "With a Little Help from My Friends", "Yellow Submarine", "Good Night", and their cover of "Act Naturally". He also wrote and sang the Beatles' songs "Don't Pass Me By" and "Octopus's
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Help Me Make It Through the Night


"Help Me Make It Through The Night" is a country music ballad written and composed by Kris Kristofferson and released on his 1970 album "Kristofferson". It was covered later in 1970 by Sammi Smith, on the album "Help Me Make It Through the Night". Smith's recording of the song remains the most commercially successful and most well-known version in the United States. Her recording ranks among the most successful country singles of all time in terms of sales, popularity, and radio airplay. It topped
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Help Me Make It Through the Night (Sammi Smith album)


Help Me Make It Through the Night is the debut studio album released by American country artist Sammi Smith. The album was originally released in September 1970 on Mega Records and was produced by Jim Malloy. The album was originally named "He's Everywhere" but was renamed "Help Me Make It Through the Night" due to the popularity of that track, which reached number one on the "Billboard" country music chart and the Top 10 on "Billboard" Hot 100 chart. The album comprised Smith's first recordings for
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and Willie Nelson. Other artists who have recorded charting versions of the song include Gladys Knight & the Pips, John Holt, and (in French) Claude Varade. The Michael Bublé version features American singer Loren Allred. Kristofferson said that he got the inspiration for the song from an "Esquire" magazine interview with Frank Sinatra. When asked what he believed in, Frank replied, "Booze, broads, or a bible...whatever helps me make it through the night." During his time as a struggling songwriter,
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Kris Kristofferson


. When released, it stayed on the number-one spot on the charts for weeks. More hits followed from others: Ray Price ("I'd Rather Be Sorry"); Joe Simon ("Help Me Make It Through the Night"); Bobby Bare ("Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends"); O.C. Smith ("Help Me Make It Through the Night"); Jerry Lee Lewis ("Me and Bobby McGee"); Patti Page ("I'd Rather Be
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Tennessee (film)


, who flees from her abusive husband, Frank (Lance Reddick), to join them on their journey. Mariah Carey co-wrote "Right to Dream" with Willie Nelson and performed it with Nelson's harmonica player, Mickey Raphael, for the movie's soundtrack. "It's not really country," says Nelson, "It's more Mariah." In May 2010, Carey's cover of Kris Kristofferson's "Help Me Make It Through the Night," was leaked online. It was originally supposed to
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Kris Kristofferson


demand. Ray Price ("For the Good Times"), Gladys Knight & The Pips ("Help Me Make It Through The Night"), Waylon Jennings ("The Taker"), Bobby Bare ("Come Sundown"), Johnny Cash ("Sunday Morning Coming Down"), and Sammi Smith ("Help Me Make It Through the Night") all recorded successful versions of his songs in the early 1970s. "For the Good Times" (Ray Price) won "Song of the
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Sammi Smith


Nashville music makers who had grown up listening not only to country music but also to rock & roll, jazz, pop, R&B, and even classical music," they wrote. "A crossover smash, 'Help Me Make It Through the Night' signaled country's belated arrival in the rock and soul era." After the success of her hit, Smith continued to have more success on the country charts. In 1973, Sammi moved to Dallas, Texas, with Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson to become a country
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Primavera in anticipo


single from the album "Invece no" / "En cambio no", a song focused on the pain of those who weren't able to confess everything to a loved person who died: Among all the song I wrote and sang during my career, this is the one which scares me the most, but it also makes me calm more than every other one. It was composed at the piano, and I wrote the music with Paolo Carta. The lyrics, written by me and Niccolò Agliardi, were inspired by
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the "Billboard" country chart. When the title track became a major hit, the album was retitled with the same album number. The album consisted of eleven tracks of new material. The release included a series of cover versions, such as Patsy Cline's "There He Goes", The First Edition's "But You Know I Love You", and Johnny Darrell's "With Pen in Hand". Two songs composed by Kris Kristofferson were also included: the Help Me Make It Through the Night and Johnny
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Help Me Make It Through the Night (Sammi Smith album)


Smith's future album was the album's sixth track entitled "He's Everywhere" in July 1970. The single became Smith's first Top 40 and Top 30 single, reaching #25 on the "Billboard" Country music chart that year. In November 1970, "Help Me Make It Through the Night" was released and became Smith's biggest hit and signature song. It reached #1 on the "Billboard Magazine" Hot Country Singles chart, #8 on the "Billboard" Hot 100, and #3
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Help Me Make It Through the Night (Sammi Smith album)


on the "Billboard" Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart in 1971. In addition, "Help Me Make It Through the Night" also reached #1 on the "RPM" Country chart in Canada, as well as #4 on its Top Singles chart. For the song's success, Smith would later win the Country Music Association's "Single of the Year" award and the Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance in 1972. The album was released in September 1970 on Mega Records and peaked at #1
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Thelma Houston


May 19, 1985 NBC broadcast "Motown Returns to the Apollo" Houston performed "What a Diff'rence a Day Makes" in the guise of Dinah Washington. Houston continued to contribute to movie soundtracks, recording "Keep It Light" for the 1985 film "Into the Night" and she remade Bill Withers' "Lean on Me" for the 1989 film entitled "Lean on Me". Houston also co-wrote and sang back-up on the song "Be Yourself" for Patti LaBelle's 1989 album of the
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Cory Wells


early 1970s. Wells sang the lead vocal on Three Dog Night's "Billboard" No. 1 hit song "Mama Told Me (Not to Come)". He said that Randy Newman, who wrote the song, later called him on the phone and said: "I just want to thank you for putting my kids through college." Unlike many other rock musicians of the day, Wells managed to abstain from alcohol and other drugs. Also, he didn't squander his earnings on the lavish lifestyles of many
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the Mega label. "Help Me Make It Through the Night" was recorded in May 1970 at the Monument Records recording studio in Nashville, Tennessee, United States and included Smith's first recordings for Mega Records, after leaving the Columbia label in 1969. The album's style reflected the Outlaw Country sound, which was found in other artists such as Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings. The album was originally titled "He's Everywhere", due to the single of the same name becoming Smith's first Top 40 hit on
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Help Me Make It Through the Night


the country singles chart, and was also a crossover hit, reaching number eight on the U.S. pop singles chart. "Help Me Make It Through The Night" also became Smith's signature song. In 1975 the title appeared in the lyrics of Paul Anka's "I Don't Like to Sleep Alone". Inspired by Smith's success with the song, numerous other artists covered it soon thereafter, including Tammy Wynette, Loretta Lynn, Glen Campbell, Joan Baez, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley, Ray Stevens,
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Kris Kristofferson


, then come back down and write songs for another week. I can remember "Help Me Make It Through the Night" I wrote sitting on top of an oil platform. I wrote "Bobby McGee" down here, and a lot of them [in south Louisiana]." Weeks after giving June his tapes, Kristofferson landed a helicopter in Cash's front yard, gaining his full attention. [Note: The story about Kristofferson having a beer in one hand and some songs in the other is a fable.
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Daddy Sang Bass


, by finding God, overcame those addictions, then helped Carl Perkins, who spent a lot of time on the road with Cash. Feeling inspired, Perkins wrote the song, "Daddy Sang Bass" in 1967. Cash says the line, "Me and little brother will join right in there" was written about Cash's brother Jack, who died when they were both boys. In the song the line is sung by Don Reid and Lew DeWitt of The Statler Brothers who are uncredited on the record, as is
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Billy Burnette


RCA, 1983) Burnette sang lead vocals on "I'm Not Me"; "Angel Come Home", a Beach Boys song; "Gimme You", a cover of his own song; and "Tear It Up", written by his father. In 1982, the Zoo performed on "Saturday Night Live" as the backing band for Lindsey Buckingham, guitarist and singer for Fleetwood Mac. In 1984, Burnette co-wrote the song "So Excited" with Christine McVie, who sang and played keyboards
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Sam Butera


along with love." When he sang part of "Just a Gigolo," the hosts found it familiar and he began to tell how David Lee Roth stole the song from him. "I wrote that arrangement thirty four years ago, the one that David Lee Roth stole from me. He came in one night to see me, you know, and after the show he walked up to me and said 'Hey Sam!', and I said 'who are you', he said 'I'm David
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Help Me Make It Through the Night


fire in it!" Stevens launches into an upbeat "hillbilly" bluegrass tempo, interspersing each line with mocking jokes of those lines: the first line "Take the ribbon from your hair," is followed by a ripping sound followed by a woman yelling, Spike Jones-style, and so on. Another comedic version was recorded by novelty group Big Daddy, which was performed in the style, and with musical references to The Coasters. A parody was called "Help Me Make It Through the Yard" by Pinkard
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Me and a Gun


song, because he told me to. I sang to stay alive. Yet I survived that torture, which left me urinating all over myself and left me paralyzed for years. That's what that night was all about, mutilation, more than violation through sex. I really do feel as though I was psychologically mutilated that night and that now I'm trying to put the pieces back together again. Through love, not hatred. And through my music. My strength has been to open again, to life, and
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The Beatles


said: ""Help!" was great but it wasn't our film – we were sort of guest stars. It was fun, but basically, as an idea for a film, it was a bit wrong." The soundtrack was dominated by Lennon, who wrote and sang lead on most of its songs, including the two singles: "Help!" and "Ticket to Ride". The accompanying "Help!" album, the group's fifth studio LP, mirrored "A Hard Day's Night
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Cindy Valentine


, "Make It Through the Night" and "Big Kiss". The majority of the songs on the album were written by Valentine's manager, Tony Green. Valentine co-wrote the songs "Lust" with Aubrey Singer and Lorne Ould,and "Make it Through The Night", and was the solo composer of the song "Using Me". Valentine's 1987 album was a departure from rock and roll into the dance and club music genre, "Secret Rendez-Vous" was released in Canada by
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Help Me Make It Through the Night


Kristofferson wrote the song while staying with Dottie West and her husband, Bill, at their home on Shy's Hill Road in Nashville's Green Hills neighborhood. When he offered Dottie the song, she originally claimed it was "too suggestive" for her. Eventually, she would record it before the year was out, and it is included on her album "Careless Hands." However, by then, several others had recorded and released versions of it, some garnering great success. Later on, West said that not
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Rachael Leahcar


chose Leahcar as the winner of the battle and she progressed through to the Live Shows. For the first Live Show, Leahcar sang Jewel's "Hands" and progressed through to the Quarter-finals after she was chosen by the public vote. In her second Live Show, she sang the classic song "Someone to Watch Over Me" and she progressed through to the Semi-finals after being selected again by the public. In her third Live Show, she sang "Nights in White Satin (Notte Di Luce)
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I Can't Make You Love Me


do love this song. It's just fucking stunning." While reviewing her "iTunes Festival" performance, David Smyth of "London Evening Standard" wrote that Adele sang the song "with raw expressiveness." Andrew Leahey of "Allmusic" wrote that the cover "made all the more tender by the rarely heard frailties in Adele's voice." Donald Gibson of "Seattle Pi" wrote that "she breathes new life into Bonnie Raitt's 'I Can't Make You Love Me,' with similar intimacy and
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City of Night


, with the author at the time. The author uses curious methods to achieve verisimilitude, for instance, omitting the apostrophe in contractions, in order to recreate the speech of characters who are barely literate. Pornographer David Hurles wrote that "Rechy's story set me free... His story told me of a world I had only hoped might really exist. The effect was visceral, sexy, fightening, and it made my spirit soar. In 1965 this book helped lure me to California." "City of Night" inspired
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by Gladys Knight & the Pips reached number 33 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 and number 13 on the Hot Soul Singles chart, and was a Top 10 pop hit in the United Kingdom. This version was later sampled extensively on Huff and Puff's 1996 dance track "Help Me Make It". In 1974, John Holt included the song on his album "1000 Volts of Holt." That year, his recording of the song made it into the UK Top Ten. In 1975, the French Canadian singer
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Save Me (South Korean TV series)


captured by Apostle Jo from the cult. After going out for drinks one night, the trio runs into an accident with Apostle Jo and Apostle Kang from the church when their van hit Sung-Hwan’s motorbike. Sang Mi was sitting in the van and whispers, “Save me.” to Sung-Hwan. Sung-Hwan still feels guilty for not being able to save her brother so he is now determined to save Sang Mi. He enlist the help of Jung-Hoon, Man-Hee and Dong-
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You Make Me Brave: Live at the Civic


Lord is saying through the whole album versus who sang what, who did what, whose name is on what." He finally said, "All in all, this is what worship leaders want – solid, biblical, fresh songs that can speak to their people and have an amazing sound." A studio version of "You Make Me Brave" was released as the first single on June 17, 2014. Vocals were provided by Amanda Cook. A radio version of "It Is Well" was released as the
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Save Me (South Korean TV series)


by the bullies. Sang Jin thinking that all of this happened because of him and that his prayers aren’t going to be answered, commits suicide by jumping of the roof to end his pain. Sang-Hwan feels guilty that he didn’t help and blames himself for Sang jin’s death. The main bully gets off the hook due to his father’s wealth and power. Dong-Chul gets expelled from school. But one night, Dong-Chul sees the bully in public and follows him to a quiet spot
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Francisca Valenzuela


as recording a version of Inti-Illimani's song "Vuelvo". In 2009, she collaborated with Chilean rapper, Latin Bitman for his album "Colour"; Valenzuela co-wrote and sang two songs, "Help Me" and "Someday". "Help Me" was later released as a single in the United States and Chile and a music video was also filmed in Los Angeles in November 2009. In August 2010, Valenzuela began recording for her second studio album in Santiago. Production on the album was
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(Our Love) Don't Throw It All Away


not released until the compilation "Bee Gees Greatest" 1979. Barry and Maurice Gibb are the only members of the Bee Gees to appear on the recording. Barry wrote the lyrics while Weaver composed the melody. Weaver said of this song, "That was me playing around again; It wasn't done for ["Saturday Night Fever"], it was just something that we did". The stereo mix of an early state of the song exists but was unreleased until now. Samantha Sang, who was visiting France
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Runaway (The Corrs song)


was written by Andrea Corr, Sharon Corr and Caroline Corr. Andrea has said the first time she sang it in front of her parents, she was embarrassed because of the line "make love to me through the night". She noted that she knew her mother would be thinking "where did she learn that?!" The song has a subtle key change. It is written in F major, but towards the end, the fourth (a B flat) gets augmented (becoming a B), so the
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Now I Can Dance (book)


Now I Can Dance is an autobiography by Australian singer-songwriter Tina Arena. Arena says, "I don't know what I would do if I couldn't write and sing. It makes me who I am, regardless of where I happen to be or what language I'm speaking. It has done since I wrote my first song and sang it to myself in the shower. It's as natural for me as breathing." The tile of her memoir, Now I Can Dance is taken from the third single
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You Must Love Me


Love Me" at number 50, calling it the singer's best performance from the film and pointing out the "emotional quaking desperation" in her voice. Negative criticism came from the "San Francisco Chronicle"s Barbara Shulgasser, who wrote that "['You Must Love Me'] didn't help a bit. Rice writes lazy, dumb lyrics that make no effort to correspond to the rhythms of the music". Also negative was "Slant Magazine"s Eric Henderson, who wrote that it "just barely misses taking the dishonor
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Albrecht Dürer


in his diary in 1520: "And God help me that I may go to Dr. Martin Luther; thus I intend to make a portrait of him with great care and engrave him on a copper plate to create a lasting memorial of the Christian man who helped me overcome so many difficulties." In a letter to Nicholas Kratzer in 1524, Dürer wrote "because of our Christian faith we have to stand in scorn and danger, for we are reviled and called heretics". Most tellingly, Pirckheimer wrote in a letter
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(I Can't Make It) Another Day


he sang, "You're the one that makes me strong / I can't make it another day / You're the fire that keeps me warm / I can't make it another day." The journalist also noted the lyrical and melodical similarities between "Another Day" and "Storm", which features Kravitz singing, "I walked away but I was wrong / You're the one that keeps me strong / You're the fire that keeps me warm / How will I get through this storm?" The
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Why Me (Kris Kristofferson song)


"Why Me" is an American country and gospel song written and recorded by American country music singer and songwriter Kris Kristofferson. Kristofferson had become the toast of Nashville in the early 1970s, with the massive success of compositions including "For the Good Times," "Me and Bobby McGee," "Sunday Morning Coming Down," and "Help Me Make It Through the Night", among many others. He had a hit of his own as well, with "Lovin' Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll
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Woman to Woman (Shirley Brown song)


) with Brown cutting her vocal in a single take. Brown would state in a 1975 interview "The guys who wrote ['Woman to Woman'] sang it through to me and I felt it needed a rap to begin it, so I wrote one off the top of my head"; however the song's co-writer James Banks has stated that the spoken intro was part of the song when it was offered to Inez Foxx, whose dislike of the "rap" caused her to turn the song down
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If Not for You (album)


some pressings of "Banks of the Ohio" single and also on "48 Original Tracks". The album features covers of Kris Kristofferson ("Me and Bobby McGee" and "Help Me Make It Through the Night"), Bread ("If"), The Band ("In a Station"), Lesley Duncan ("Love Song" and "Lullaby"), Bob Dylan ("If Not for You"), Brotherhood of Man ("Where Are You Going to My Love")
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The Night They Raided Minsky's


"The Night They Raided Minsky's" was remade in the cutting room. "Above all, this emerging "Minsky's" was highly contemporary," Rosenblum wrote. "One might even conclude it had a New Look. The obvious fact that had eluded us from the beginning suddenly struck me now: The avant-garde quality Richard Lester had achieved in films like "Help!" could only be accomplished through editing. From the moment the Search for the New Look began, "Minsky's" was destined to
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At Last


night of his inauguration as President of the United States. She told Entertainment Tonight: "To sing 'At Last' while they have their first dance is a dream come true. I could not be more honored and excited that they have asked me to be part of this moment in history." Jen Chaney of "The Washington Post" wrote, ...she sang it, tearfully, another high-profile time. On that night, the song’s expression of a romantic promise fulfilled clearly spoke to the hope that
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Meg White


". She sang lead on four Stripes' songs: "In the Cold, Cold Night", from the album "Elephant", "Passive Manipulation" from "Get Behind Me Satan", "Who's a Big Baby", the B-side to "Blue Orchid," and "St. Andrew (This Battle Is in the Air)" from "Icky Thump". She also sang the popular Christmas song "Silent Night" on the single "Candy Cane Children". Both Meg and Jack
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I Got Rhythm


bit daring for me who usually depended on rhyme insurance." Ira also wrote that although the phrase "who could ask for anything more?" is repeated four times in the song, he decided not to make it the title because "somehow the first line of the refrain sounded more arresting and provocative." An instrumental arrangement for piano and orchestra appears in the 1945 "Hollywood Victory Caravan". The song is featured in the 1951 musical film "An American in Paris". Gene Kelly sang the song and tap
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Blue Sunshine (album)


only sang on "Mr. Alphabet Says" and "Perfect Murder". Other musicians involved in this project were Andy Anderson (who later joined the Cure), Martin McCarrick (who later joined the Banshees), Ginny Hewes and Anne Stephenson. Severin wrote the lyrics to all of the songs except "Like an Animal", "Sex-Eye-Make-Up", "Perfect Murder", which were written by Smith, and "Punish Me with Kisses", on which the two collaborated. Two singles
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Help Me Make It Through the Night


time in French with Annie Blanchard (Musicor Records) and the song made the Top 20 for 26 weeks, reaching a high of #6. Other artists who have recorded the song include: Johnny Cash and his wife, June Carter Cash, recorded it as a duet. The recording is found on the 2006 compilation "", released by Sony BMG. In this version, Johnny Cash inserts "June" before the line "tonight I need a friend." In 2008, Mariah Carey recorded a version of the
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Ken Parker (musician)


a soloist, impressing Dodd sufficiently to launch his solo career. While at Studio One, he recorded singles such as "Choking Kind", "Run Come", and "My Whole World is Falling Down", and an album, "Keep Your Eyes on Jesus", followed in 1968. He moved on to work with Duke Reid, who produced hits including "Jimmy Brown", "Help Me Make it Through the Night", and "Kiss an Angel Good Morning". His popularity continued to grow
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This Is Me (Demi Lovato song)


produced and mixed by Stephanie Portillo and Andy Dodd. "This Is Me" is the first song that Lovato's character, Mitchie Torres, sang in "Camp Rock" with Jonas's character, Shane Gray. Mitchie wrote the song in the beginning of the film, and was later heard (in an acoustic version on piano), but not seen, by Shane, who set out to search for the girl behind the amazing voice. After most people performed already in the "Final Jam" session, Mitchie sang
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List of The X Factor finalists (British series 10)


convicted cocaine dealer, Errol Gordon. In her room audition, Simpson sang "I Have Nothing" and Barlow told her afterwards, "It feels like you've been singing for 50 years". After performing "A Moment Like This" at her arena audition, Osbourne said "I do feel this is your time." At bootcamp she sang "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" and Barlow said, "That was the surprise performance of the night for me, that was sensational."
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Favorite Song


want to be your favorite song/You can turn it up, play me all night long'." Another negative review came from Sputnikmusic, who wrote that "Caillat concocts what is quite possibly her cheesiest chorus yet, and it probably goes without saying that Common sounds sorely out of place. It is actually kind of reminiscent of those old-school Radio Disney songs that would mimic the melody of some major hit, make it a thousand times cheesier, and then have a rapper enter midway through to appeal to the
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Neither One of Us (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye)


all the hits, while we took the leftovers". While on Motown, Knight & The Pips recorded for Soul Records, a label Motown used for acts that recorded material with more of an R&B flavor than a pop flavor. In 1972, the group had success with their cover of musician Kris Kristofferson's ballad, "Help Me Make It Through the Night". The song helped to make the group's transition from soul and blues-oriented material to more middle of the road fare. In late 1972, the
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Kristofferson (album)


“Well it was straight autobiography for me. I was living in a condemned apartment and had lost my family, and Sunday was a day when the bars were closed, and, uh…it was not a day to be alone.” While “Sunday Morning Comin' Down” alluded openly to smoking dope (“On a Sunday morning sidewalk, I’m wishin’ Lord that I was stoned…”), Kristofferson was equally candid about sex on “Help Me Make It Through the Night,” with lyrics
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Steve Perry


encourage his musical growth during that time. In his early 20s, Perry moved to Sacramento to start a band with 16-year-old future music producer Scott Mathews, who co-wrote, played drums and guitar and sang. That band, Ice, wrote original material and were poised to "make it" in the music business. During the day in 1972 they recorded at the Record Plant studios in Los Angeles while Stevie Wonder recorded his "Talking Book" album by night. Upon returning to Sacramento, Ice disbanded as
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Thérèse of Lisieux


the Jesuits. She wrote: "One would have to pass through this martyrdom to understand it well, and for me to express what I experienced for a year and a half would be impossible". Christmas Eve of 1886 was a turning point in the life of Thérèse; she called it her "complete conversion." Years later she stated that on that night she overcame the pressures she had faced since the death of her mother and said that "God worked a little miracle to make me grow up in an instant
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Luther Vandross


backing vocals to "Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway" in 1972, and worked on Delores Hall's "Hall-Mark" album (1973). He sang with her on the song "Who's Gonna Make It Easier for Me", which he wrote, and he contributed another song, "In This Lonely Hour". Having co-written "Fascination" for David Bowie's "Young Americans" (1975), he went on to tour with him as a back-up vocalist in September 1974
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Dottie West


40 hits including the Top 10 "Last Time I Saw Him", "House of Love", and "Lay Back Lover". Before signing with United Artists Records in 1976, her final RCA album, "Carolina Cousins", was released in 1975. In the late 1970s, West's image underwent a major metamorphosis; the woman who had once performed outfitted in conservative gingham dresses, and had originally refused to record Kris Kristofferson's "Help Me Make It Through the Night" because it was "too sexy
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Good Night, Dear Lord


, Barbra Streisand wrote, "I first heard 'Deep River' at age 16 when I bought my first Johnny Mathis record at the supermarket for $1.98. He sang it so beautifully. The song always stayed with me." She recorded that song as part of a medley for the album, and included another of her "Good Night, Dear Lord" discoveries, "One God", on her "Christmas Memories" album in 2001. The Mathis recording of "Kol Nidre" inspired the Idelsohn Society,
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Carrie Underwood


Raitt's "I Can't Make You Love Me". After she sang "Could've Been" by Tiffany on the top 12 girls night, judge Simon Cowell commented that she would be one of the favorites to win the competition. During the top 11 finalists' performance on the March 22, 2005, "Idol" episode, Underwood sang a rendition of the number-one 1980s rock hit "Alone", made famous by Heart, and Cowell predicted that Underwood would not only win the competition, but she
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John Holt (singer)


Lee-produced "3,000 Volts of Holt"). "1,000 Volts" spawned the UK Top 10 hit "Help Me Make It Through the Night" (written by Kris Kristofferson), which peaked at number 6, and included covers of Billy Joel's "Just the Way You Are" and "Touch Me in the Morning" by Diana Ross. He had success back in Jamaica in 1976 with "Up Park Camp" (on a reworking of the Heptones' "Get In the Groove" rhythm),
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Kris Kristofferson


on BBC's "The Old Grey Whistle Test", performing a physically intimate version of "Help Me Make It Through The Night". For the next few years, Kristofferson focused on acting. He appeared in "Blume in Love" (directed by Paul Mazursky) and "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid", "Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia" and "Convoy" (all directed by Sam Peckinpah). He continued acting, in "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore", "Vigilante Force
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Why Don't You Love Me (Beyoncé song)


song as a part of her revue show in Atlantic City, New Jersey at Revel. While reviewing the show, Ben Ratliff of "The New York Times" wrote: "Then she makes some of the most thorough and gold-plated declarations of self-worth ever rendered in pop. 'There’s nothing not to love about me,' she sang... without needing to make a joke out of it." Maura Johnston of "The Village Voice" was also positive about the performance of the song, saying
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In the Zone


Music" removes the original melody of the song and adds a clattering backbeat and Punjabi shouts. In "The Answer", Spears sings that her lover is the answer to all her needs: "Who can hold me tight, keep me warm through the night? / Who can wipe my tears when it's wrong, make it right? / Who can give me love till I'm satisfied? / Who's the one I need in my life?". In "Don't Hang Up", she pleads
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John Beland


ABC's hit show, "The Brady Bunch". He continued to attend Troubadour, where he was introduced to Kris Kristofferson, a musician from Nashville, Tennessee. It was decided that Beland would back up the performer on acoustic guitar for Kristofferson. They performed three tracks, "Help Me Make It Through the Night", "For The Good Times", and "Me And Bobby McGee". According to Beland, all three received a cold reception. In 1969, Beland answered an ad in "The Hollywood
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Moves like Jagger


Jagger." Aguilera appears midway through the song's bridge, playing her role as a tease: "You want to know how to make me smile / Take control, own me just for the night / But if I share my secret / You gonna have to keep it / Nobody else can see this." Bill Lamb from About.com gave the song a positive review, giving the single four-and-a-half out of five stars. Lamb wrote that, "The funky, whistle driven melody here
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Make Me Smile


the Easy Listening chart. Since the death of Terry Kath in 1978, the vocals for live performances of "Make Me Smile" were handled by Bill Champlin, who joined the band for the recording of "Chicago 16", until he departed the group in August 2009. On shows that Champlin did not attend, Robert Lamm sang the lead vocal. Champlin's replacement Lou Pardini has now taken over the singing of "Make Me Smile". "Make Me Smile" was made available for download on October 23,
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B Sides and Rarities (Andy Williams album)


five recordings of "I'll See You in My Dreams" that made the pop charts in 1925, the most successful rendition came from Isham Jones & the Ray Miller Orchestra, who spent seven weeks with the song at number one. Chuck Willis took "What Am I Living For" to number one on the "Billboard" R&B chart. "Help Me Make It Through the Night" gave Sammi Smith a number one Country hit. And as of the time of Williams's recording of "He Ain't Heavy,
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Danielle Bradbery


, she sang Pam Tillis' "Shake the Sugar Tree" chosen by coach Blake Shelton. That week, she also sang Sara Evans' "A Little Bit Stronger," ending the song with a high note through the final "stronger" and "yeah" run. During the Top 5, Bradbery sang "Please Remember Me" and "Who I Am" which reached 6 and 4 spots respectively on the iTunes top 10 charts. During "Who I Am," she walked out through the audience to sing
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Help Me Make It Through the Night (Sammi Smith album)


Cash's "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down". The debut record also contained five new tracks ("Saunder's Ferry Lane", "He's Everywhere", "Don't Blow No Smoke on Me", "When Michael Calls", and "This Room for Rent"). The album was originally released on an LP record, with six songs on the first side of the record and five on the opposite side. The album has never been reissued on compact disc. The lead single released from
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Kris Kristofferson


Kristoffer Kristofferson (born June 22, 1936) is an American actor and singer-songwriter. Among his songwriting credits are the songs "Me and Bobby McGee", "For the Good Times", "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down", and "Help Me Make It Through the Night", all of which were hits for other artists. Kristofferson composed his own songs and collaborated with Nashville songwriters such as Shel Silverstein. In 1985, Kristofferson joined fellow country artists Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash in
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Kris Kristofferson


He also swept the Grammy Awards that year with numerous songs nominated, winning country song of the year for "Help Me Make It Through the Night." Kristofferson's 1972 fourth album, "Jesus Was a Capricorn", initially had slow sales, but the third single, "Why Me," was a success and significantly increased album sales. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc by the RIAA on November 8, 1973. In 1972, Kristofferson appeared with Rita Coolidge on British TV
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George Jones


Allen's biography of the singer, Sherrill states, "He thought it was too long, too sad, too depressing and that nobody would ever play it...He hated the melody and wouldn't learn it." Sherrill also claims that Jones frustrated him by continually singing the song to the melody of the Kris Kristofferson hit "Help Me Make It Through the Night". In the "Same Ole Me" retrospective, Sherrill recalls a heated exchange during one recording session: "I said 'That's not the melody
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Fat City (film)


of lighting. The melancholic "Help Me Make It Through the Night" is sung by Kris Kristofferson at the beginning and end of the movie. In a 1969 interview with "Life" magazine, Leonard Gardner explained the meaning of the title of his novel. "Lots of people have asked me about the title of my book. It's part of Negro slang. When you say you want to go to Fat City, it means you want the good life. I got the idea for the title after seeing a
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He Stopped Loving Her Today


also claims that Jones frustrated him by continually singing the song to the melody of the Kris Kristofferson hit "Help Me Make It Through the Night". In the "Same Ole Me" retrospective, Sherrill recalls a heated exchange during one recording session: "I said 'That's not the melody!' and he said 'Yeah, but it's a better melody.' I said 'It might be—Kristofferson would think so too, it's his melody!'" In the same documentary, Sherrill claims
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Blanche Merrill


is probably the performer for whom Merrill wrote the most material. A 1912 advertisement in "Variety" tells readers to "watch for new ideas in song form by Blanche Merrill and Leo Edwards." Clearly, Merrill was seeking clients. Her song "Bring Back My Bonnie To Me" was apparently a success not because of one performer, but through its dissemination by many performers. Among those who sang it were Helen Vincent, the team of Gordon and Camber (in Portland, Maine), and Reine Davies in Chicago
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I Love a Rainy Night


of sitting in a small apartment, staring out the window at one o'clock in the morning, watching the rain come down," wrote Bronson in "The Billboard Book of Number One Hits". "He sang into his tape recorder, 'I love a rainy night, I love a rainy night.'" Upon rediscovery of the old lyrics, Rabbitt completed the song (with help from frequent songwriting partners Even Stevens and David Malloy) and recorded it. The end result included vivid descriptions of a man's fondness
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ACM Gospel Choir


for free with the "Mail on Sunday" through label MOSS. In May 2009 and 2010 the group sang at the Windsor Castle Royal Tattoo for Her Majesty the Queen and other members of the royal family. In June 2009, the choir was a guest on the BBC Radio 2 show Beverley's Gospel Nights hosted by gospel singer Beverley Knight. Later in the summer they sang at the Carnegie Challenge Cup at Wembley Stadium supporting Hayley Westenra in the rendition of Abide With Me and the British national anthem, God Save the Queen
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Handle Me


-budget stuff – so he hooked me up with people who could help me out." The video begins with Robyn and a group of people outside at night. Robyn wears a tank top and several gold necklaces around her neck. Other scenes show her wearing a hooded sweatshirt, and others wearing a red dress while bicycling. In an interview with About.com in February 2008, Robyn explained that the album's UK release in 2007 inspired her to make new music videos for "Handle Me" and "Be Mine!"
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Take Me Home, Country Roads


, Danoff and Nivert had planned to sell the song to popular country singer Johnny Cash, but when Denver heard the song and decided he had to have it, the duo who wrote the original lyrics decided not to make the sale. They sang the song for Denver and as he recalled, "I flipped." The three stayed up until 6:00 a.m., changing words and moving lines around. The bridge to the song was still missing, so the three of them, began finishing the song in the living room of
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Naomi Uemura


ice and the floe cracked into pieces. He and his dogs were stranded on a tossing island of ice. After a night of terror, Uemura found a ice bridge and raced to safety. He persevered and became the first ever to reach the Pole solo. Describing his 57-day push, he wrote, "What drove me to continue then was the thought of countless people who had helped and supported me and the knowledge that I could never face them if I gave up." In this trip, he cooperated with the
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Best of Gina Jeffreys... So Far


a song I used to sing in a covers band back in the days before I won Star Maker and went on to bigger things in country music. So it connects me back to those days — it’s a song from my past." "Through the Eyes of a Child" is a new track co-written by McCormack, "Rod wrote the song for our unborn child — he wanted a special, positive song that would connect us with the baby. He called me from Nashville and sang it to me
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I Am What I Am (George Jones album)


He thought it was too long, too sad, too depressing and that nobody would ever play it...He hated the melody and wouldn't learn it." Sherrill also claims that Jones frustrated him by continually singing the song to the melody of the Kris Kristofferson hit "Help Me Make It Through the Night". In the 1989 "Same Ole Me" retrospective, Sherrill recalls a heated exchange during one recording session: "I said 'That's not the melody!' and he said 'Yeah, but it
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The Austin Sessions (Kris Kristofferson album)


The Austin Sessions is an album by Kris Kristofferson, released on Atlantic Records in 1999 (see 1999 in music). It features stripped-down versions of Kristofferson's most famous material, including "Me and Bobby McGee", "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down" and "Help Me Make It Through the Night". Several well-known artists contributed vocals to the album, including Steve Earle, Jackson Browne, Matraca Berg, Vince Gill, Marc Cohn, Alison Krauss, Catie Curtis and Mark Knopfler. All
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Touching Home (album)


He Walks On You (The Way You Have Walked on Me)," barely missed the Top Ten, peaking at number 11. The album also includes Kris Kristofferson's "Help Me Make It Through the Night", a song Lewis greatly respected; in 2014 he told biographer, Rick Bragg, that the song was a "masterpiece...You don't mess with Kristofferson." Lewis was also in the habit of occasionally recording songs written by his younger sister Linda Gail Lewis, such as "Foolish Kind of Man
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Tommy Hunt


I Be Anything (Without You) / All In the Game / I Believe / Human / Born Free / Everybody's Got A Home (But Me) Spark SRLP 117 - "Live At Wigan Casino" - 1976 Tracks: I Can’t Turn You Loose / Get Ready / My Girl / Knock On Wood / Never Can Say Goodbye /// Help Me Make It Through The Night / Crackin’ Up / Baby I Need Your Loving Spark SRLP 120 – "Sign Of The Times" – 1976 Tracks: Loving On The
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I Wanna Be Free (album)


I Wanna Be Free is the seventeenth solo studio album by American country music singer-songwriter Loretta Lynn. It was released on May 3, 1971, by Decca Records. In the issue dated May 22, 1971, "Billboard" published a review which said, "Miss Lynn's latest album spotlights her current country hit, "I Wanna Be Free", and features excellent versions of "Help Me Make It Through the Night", "Me and Bobby McGee" and "Rose Garden". Among the originals
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Lyn Paul


after moving to Pye Records, Paul sang "If Everybody Loved The Same As You" in the UK selection, coming joint sixth. She went on to record "I Don't Believe You Ever Loved Me", a cover of the Doobie Brothers' "Echoes of Love", and a 1980s power-ballad "Make the Night". She released a single "Hold Me" under the name of Future Primitive with her brother Paul (whose name she took as her stage surname) in 1984. She also
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Nate Champion


the cabin. "Boys, I feel pretty lonesome just now. I wish there was someone here with me so we could watch all sides at once." he wrote. The last journal entry read: "Well, they have just got through shelling the house like hail. I heard them splitting wood. I guess they are going to fire the house tonight. I think I will make a break when night comes, if alive. Shooting again. It's not night yet. The house is all fired.
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Come to Life


and it was later confirmed by Martin himself and people involved in the recording process that he had worked with Imbruglia on a "string of tracks". Chris Martin wrote the song "Fun" for Natalie. ""When he sang it to me, I almost did one of those ugly cries. But I held it together. That's the crazy thing - he wrote it, not me. Who knows what Chris was thinking, you would have to ask him about that. But I thought it was a stunning
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Sally Barker


Love Somebody". In the semi-final, she sang "The Whole of the Moon" and was voted through to the final. Commenting on his tearful reaction to Barker's performance, Jones said: "Sally it’s lovely to hear you sing. You move me and that’s what happened at auditions. It was so beautiful I couldn’t help myself." In the final, on 5 April 2014, Barker sang Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides, Now" and duetted with Tom Jones on "Walking
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Motel Shot


Motel Shot is the fourth studio album by Delaney & Bonnie and Friends, released in 1971. The album, their third for Atco/Atlantic (catalog no. SD 33-358) and fifth overall, is a mostly acoustic set. The album's title refers to the impromptu, sometimes late-night, jam sessions pursued by touring musicians when on the road. In the liner notes, Delaney Bramlett dedicates the album to "My mom who sang alto." Bonnie Bramlett wrote "If this album can make one
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John Carter (mouth artist)


his new-found faith after the accident of 1836, were carefully recorded: ""O Lord, have mercy on me ! Help me through this misery, and lead me in the way everlasting. Help me through the valley of death, and pardon and forgive all my sins; and receive me into thy heavenly kingdom, O Lord, I beseech thee, for Jesus Christ's sake. Amen. O Lord Jesus, make haste to help me."" The Rev. W. J. Dampier, vicar of Coggeshall,
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The Silver Tongued Devil and I


The Silver Tongued Devil and I is the second album by Kris Kristofferson, released in 1971 on Monument Records. Although his debut album did not sell in high quantities, Kristofferson became the hottest new songwriter in country music in the early seventies. A posthumously released version of “Me and Bobby McGee” by Janis Joplin topped the U.S. singles chart, while another Kristofferson composition, “Help Me Make It Through the Night,” reached number 8 on the pop charts the previous year for Sammi Smith. Ray Price scored a number
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Sammi Smith


get signed with Columbia Records. Her first minor country hit was in 1968, titled "So Long, Charlie Brown, Don't Look for Me Around". The song showed Smith's potential as a country music powerhouse. In 1971 she married her second husband, Willie Nelson's guitarist Jody Payne. They had one child, singer/actor/musician Waylon Payne, whose godfather is country legend Waylon Jennings. "Help Me Make It Through the Night" was Sammi Smith's career hit and the one that made her
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Vincebus Eruptum


when I wrote the song (in 1967), it was a glorification of drugs. I was going through a lot of 'Should I take this drug or should I not take this drug? Blah, blah, blah.' There was a lot of soul searching at the time when I wrote that song, and I actually decided to take it. That’s what that song was about and that’s what I sang it about, sort of a drug anthem for me." On the band's cover of
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Cole Porter


the Still of the Night". He wrote the score of the short film "Paree, Paree", in 1935, using some of the songs from "Fifty Million Frenchmen". Porter also composed the cowboy song "Don't Fence Me In" for "Adios, Argentina", an unproduced movie, in 1934, but it did not become a hit until Roy Rogers sang it in the 1944 film "Hollywood Canteen". Bing Crosby, The Andrews Sisters, and other artists also popularized it in the 1940s
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Elsie Duval


on which she wrote with a blue pencil. One day after being force-fed she wrote: 'Sunday: After big struggle fed me through throat- pain at heart after- Doctor came back examined me and tried to make me take medicine and after put to bed by my wardresses'. While the pair were in Holloway the 'Cat and Mouse Act' was passed to try and prevent those who were becoming extremely ill from malnutrition from dying. Elsie became the first female released under the act and was supposed to be free
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