HamsterHuey said:

Mom's favorite.
[Edited 9/5/08 6:18am]

groovyiau said:

May I point out compilation double cd Gospels, Spirituals & Hymns? It's a beautiful compilation with lots of remastered material. Besides that, the lines notes are beautiful (Flowers & Feathers and they all is exactly right) and the choice of songs is great, also including live material, unreleased material and unreleased takes of her known songs.

It was my introduction to her voice and it had got me hooked for life.

HamsterHuey said:

I'm on it....

I love getting hooked on the good stuff.....

thankyee Mr HamsterHuey....

PeriwinkleBleu said:

ah sookie sookie


[Edited 9/5/08 15:13pm]

"Mountains." Prince.

You and I in this whirlwind
Holding the night so close
Hangin on, still unbroken
While outside the thunder rolls
Listen now, you can hear our heartbeat
Warm against life's bitter cold
These are the days
The sweetest days we'll know.

Earth, Wind and Fire.

Master told me one day
Id find peace in every way
But in search for the clue
Wrong things I was bound to do

Keep my head to the sky
For the clouds to tell me why
As I grew, and with strength
Master kept me as I repent
And he said

Keep your head to the sky
Keep your head to the sky

He gave me the will to be free
Purpose to live his reality
Hey, and I found myself never alone
Chances came to make me strong

To step right up and be a man
cause you need faith to understand
So were saying for you to hear
Keep your head and face atmosphere

Keep your head to the sky
So the clouds
Keep your head to the sky
So they can tell you why, lord
Keep your head to the sky
Surely, the clouds are gonna tell you why

Gave me the will to be free
Purpose to live his reality
Ooo, and I found myself never alone
cause chances came, they came to make me strong

Hey, to step right up and be a man
Ooo, you need faith to understand
So were just saying for you to hear
Keep your head and face atmosphere

Keep your head to the sky
Keep your head to the sky
Dont walk around with your head hung down
Keep your head to the sky
Keep your head to the sky
Surely, surely the coulds are gonna tell you why

Keep your head to the sky
Keep your head to the sky
Keep your head to the sky

http://www.youtube.com/wa...uJ3fHkTGts

Strawberry Letter 23
The Brothers Johnson

Hello, my love
I heard a kiss from you
Red magic satin playing near, too

All through the morning rain I gaze
The sun doesn't shine
Rainbows and waterfalls runnin' through my mind

In the garden, I see
West purple shower bells and tea
Orange birds and river cousins
Dressed in green

Pretty music I hear
So happy and loud
Blue flowers echo
From a cherry cloud

Feel sunshine sparkle pink and blue
Playgrounds will laugh
If you try to ask, "is it cool"
"Is it cool"

If you arrive and don't see me
I'm gonna be with my baby
I'm free flying in her arms
Over the sea

Stained window yellow candy screen
See speakers of kite
With velvet roses diggin' freedom flight

A present from you
Strawberry letter 22
The music plays
I sit in for a few

I Love this song, "Strawberry Letter 23." and amazingly enough, I always thought of that when Prince sings 22 positions in a one night stand, because I believe Prince says 23 as well.

"All I Ever Wanted." Michael Stanley Band

Here I am, last of the romantic's
Everytime I get caught in the sway
I'm just a fool for a love song
But I wouldn't have it any other way.
The white boys and the black girls sang
The heartache kids kept dreaming
Through the thick flat light of a midwest night
The Detroit station came screaming

All I ever wanted, all you gotta do
Is baby just don't say goodnight till
The man gets around to our song.
Turn up the radio, till this one's through
I got what I wanted, all I ever wanted was you.

Take your time, make your mind up
Don't say yes if you really don't know
And I can hold on just a little longer
And the night is still young so let's go.
You hold it all in your hands tonight
With your sweet surrender sighs
French kisses neath the streetlight
You never win if you never try.

Tell me baby what you want me to do?
Tell me what you want me to be.
You can make my dreams come true
If you only say to me...

All I ever wanted
All you gotta do
Is baby just don't say goodnight
Till the man gets around
To our song
Turn up the radio
Till this one's through
I got what I wanted
All I ever wanted
Was You.

I would like to see him singing this one...and in a way dedicate to him....

Music by Antonio Carlos Jobim, words by Vinicius DeMoraes, translated by Norman Gimbel

How insensitive
I must have seemed
When she told me that she loved me
How unmoved and cold
I must have seemed
When she told me so sincerely
Why she must have asked
Did I just turn and stare in icy silence
What was I to say?
What can you say
When a love affair is over?

Why she must have asked
Did I just turn and stare in icy silence
What was I to say?
What can you say
When a love affair is over?

So now she's gone away
And I'm alone
With a memory of her last look
Vague and drawn and sad
I see it still
All the heartbreak in her last look
How she must have asked,
Could I just turn and stare in icy silence
What was I to do?
What can one do
When a love affair is over?

Lover MSB

Well the glow from the bars
And a thousand stars
Light the cold Ohio night
And the turnpike's slick
The snows as thick as thieves
Since your call came through
There ain't nothin' new but
The radio and the headlights
And the news at the top of the hour
That no one really believes

Do they Lover?... what you want to go and do that for?
Lover...why'd you want to tear it apart?
Lover...you say you got your reasons but I need more
Lover...give me back my heart, give it back girl.

When the cold comes to stay it
Takes your breath away
And it makes the hours crawl
And it feels to me
Like I've been drivin' forever
Then your words return
The whole place burns
And I just don't know where to begin
Girl could you just make it anybody else
Anybody else but him...could you lover?

And somewhere ahead tonight
With fine wine and candle light
He's gonna turn your head around
Girl what you want me to do
If I leave this whole thing all up to you
I'm gonna lose the best thing I found
I can't see what's goin' down
So I talk to the night
I head for the light
Try to hold it on the road
Thank God for the man who put
The white lines
on the highway
Baby what you gonna do
When the fire is through
And you find he's out lookin'
For somebody new
And you did everything that
He wanted you to do
And now your all alone and cryin'
Aren't you Lover?

PeriwinkleBleu said:

I couldn't help myself


Toot sweets sound like what they are
So do lollys in a lollypop jar
Gingerbread men have a gingerbread sound, we've found
Sugar plum cinnamon and lemon tart tell you what they are right from the
start
And your name does the same for you
By coincidence, truly scrumptious
You're truly truly scrumptious
Scrumptious as a cherry peach parfait
When your near us
It's so delicious
Honest truly, you're the answer to our wishes
Truly scrumptious
Though we may seem presumptuous
Never, never, ever go away
Our hearts beat so unruly
Because we love you truly
Honest truly, we do


Cuteness!

Madison88 said:

Oops... from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

I love your signature poem Madison...That is really sweet.

Heaven must have sent you...Bonnie Pointer

The Ojays
Stairway to Heaven


Here we go
Climbing the stairway to heaven
Here we go
Walking the road of ecstasy
Taking the load
Of this whole world off our shoulders
The door is wide open for you
The door is open for me

Here we go
Still in a moment of pleasure
You and I
We are gonna find the pirates treasure
Here we go
Oh baby here we go
Climbing the stairway to heaven
Climbing the stairway to heaven
And we are going step by step
Together
Step by step
climbing the stairway to heaven
Climbing the stairway to heaven
And we are going step by step
Together
Step by step

Put your hand
Lean closer
Don’t you wanna go
Don’t you wanna go
In our own little corner of the world

Yeah Tame, at first, not paying attention, I just assumed that the Strawberry Letter title contained 22 instead of 23. With regard to the 23 position thing, I'm sure that today people have found way more of those the way that casual sex seems to override everything. So, I dedicate this song to those who sincerely seek and speak LOVE from the heart instead of with empty rhetoric, because it is from from the heart that actions speak louder that any words.

From the 1975 Grammys:

http://www.youtube.com/wa...XnslL-_Xww

The "Detroit" Spinners
Mighty Love

Once there was a boy and girl
Boy said "I love you so"
Girl said "I'll never leave you"
They grew older and left each other
`Cause that's the way love goes
That's the way love goes
Then there's a time
Seems like you'll never find
Someone willing to love you
Keep on lookin', you'll soon discover

A mighty love
Will sometimes make you weep and moan
A mighty love
You'll sit all day by the telephone
`Cause you're all alone
You need a mighty love
Hey

Some say that you're sure to find
True love and peace of mind
At the end of a rainbow
There's no sign in the sky to follow
`Cause that's the way love goes
Baby, that's the way love goes
And so there's a rhyme
That says life will soon be fine
Love is just what you make it
Keep on lovin', you'll soon discover

A mighty love
Will sometimes make a weak man strong
A mighty love
Will sometimes make a rich man weep
And knock him off his feet
To have a mighty love

"when you got friends to wish you well", my ultimate friends the Father and Jesus... Sing it Whitney.

http://www.youtube.com/wa...Znub4GmaPg

Whitney Houston
(Exhale) Shoop Shoop

Everyone falls in love sometime
Sometimes it's wrong, and sometimes it's right
For every win, someone must fail
But there comes a point when
When we exhale (yeah, yeah, say)

Chorus:
Shoop, shoop, shoop
Shoop be doop, shoop, shoop

Sometimes you'll laugh
Sometimes you'll cry
Life never tells us, the when's or why's
When you've got friends, to wish you well
You'll find your point when
You will exhale (yeah, yeah, say)


chorus

Hearts are often broken
When there are words unspoken
In your soul there's answers to your prayers
If you're searching for a place you know
A familiar face, somewhere to go
You should look inside yourself
You're halfway there

Sometimes you'll laugh
Sometimes you'll cry
Life never tells us, the when's or why's
When you've got friends, to wish you well
You'll find your point when
You will exhale (yeah, yeah, say)

it would have to be....baby..baby..baby...tlc....mzsexybaby

I adore both of those songs PeriwinkleBleu... posting the lyrics 4 "Mighty Love," reminded me of "Jack & Jill," by Ray Parker...and I wish I owned it.

I do own, "The best of the Spinners," and "The Waiting to Exhale Soundtrack."

Sadly I am not working at this time. I was doing hairwrapz at a Hotel in Myrtle Beach over the summer for young girls...although I'm gonna post one more Michael Stanley Band Song... The Heartland album I have played a lot. MSB not being a bigger success than they were is so wrong....anyway.. I love these lyrics.

Workin' Again.

Good Morning
Just one more cup of coffee
Take the highway
Gonna make it to the line
Put my time in
Like my old man before me
Died in Dreamland
With the Union by his side

...But not tonight
Tonight I'm gonna try a little harder
But come the light I'm gonna be...
Workin' again.

Talk to me
Just don't talk at me
Don't look through me
Don't push me to the wall
Cause right now
There ain't a lot left to lose
And from where I sit
It just ain't that far to fall

Out on the street tonight
There ain't nothin' to look up to
..but the sky
So close a reach tonight
All the sellers All the buyers
All the lovers All the liars

And baby
You keep tellin' me what your'e needing
If only
I just had a little more to give
But I'm tapped out
Broke down and Busted
And this ain't no
It just ain't no way to live...

...But not tonight
Tonight I'm gonna try a little harder
But come the light I'm gonna be
Workin' Again.

What a great song.

Beautiful, Loved and Blessed by Tamar

Hey Tame I like you"r quote there "A smile is a whisper of a laugh." A Childs' definition. It's so cute.

Workin Again and those other MSB group songs have very thought filled lyrics.

I started smiling when this brilliant gemjam popped up in my mind and another Detroit production. Didn't even know they were from there-Boy, I do declare that some fabulous people come out of Detroit, huh? I LOVE this song. Makes you want to close your eyes and just feel the emotion in it. Recall this one,..

http://www.youtube.com/wa...zpoDRGMka4

Enchantment
Silly Love Song

If I could write
a silly love song
I would write it all about you
yeah hmm mmm
The words would reflect
your inner beauty
yeah
And the melody
your eyes so true

Oh I love you more and more each day
and baby if I had my way
I would write a song
all about you girl
and sing it all over the world

If I could write
a silly love song
you know the world
would never be blue
no unt unt
I'd tell them all
about your sweetness
and the beautiful things you do

So all I'm really trying to say
is baby if I had my way
I would write a song
all about you girl
and I'd sing it everyday

So all I'm really trying to say
is baby if I had my way
I would write a song
all about you girl
and I'd sing it all over the world

So silly
Just a silly love song
It's just a silly love song
it's all about you, you, you...

funkintellechy-funkadelic
voodoo chile (slight return)-jimi
fame-david bowie
stone free-jimi
mannish boy-muddy waters
cisco kid-WAR
like a rolling stone-jimi/bob dylan
johnny b. goode-chuck berry
gangster of love/superman lover-johnny "guitar" watson

Tame said:

Thanks Tame

Place in this world, michael w. smith





Words: michael w. smith and wayne kirkpatrick
Music: michael w. smith

The wind is moving
But I am standing still
A life of pages
Waiting to be filled
A heart thats hopeful
A head thats full of dreams
But this becoming
Is harder than it seems
Feels like im
Chorus:
Looking for a reason
Roaming through the night to find
My place in this world
My place in this world
Not a lot to lean on
I need your light to help me find
My place in this world
My place in this world

If there are millions
Down on their knees
Among the many
Can you still hear me
Hear me asking
Where do I belong
Is there a vision
That I can call my own
Show me im

Chorus