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This Girl's In Love
''This Girl's in Love'' is the sixth studio album by Australian singer-songwriter Gyan, released on 26 October 2015. The album consists of cover versions of songs by John Lennon, Neil Young, Kate Bush and Tom Waits as well as a re-recording of her own 1989 single, "Wait". The album was a result of a successful Kickstarter campaign which raised over $25,000 to make the record. Critical reception Noel Mengel of ''news.com.au'' wrote "Gyan is in sparklingly good voice and the understated small orchestra arrangements she uses frequently here are ravishing" calling Gyan an "underrated Australian talent". Track listing # "Johnny Guitar" # "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" # "Jealous Guy" # "Moon River" # "What'll I Do?" # "Alfie" # "Tumbleweed" # "The Man with the Child in His Eyes" # "Un Homme Et Une Femme" # "Oh My Love "Oh My Love" is a song written by John Lennon and Yoko Ono that appeared on Lennon's ''Imagine'' album in 1971. Information The song was originally written ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gyan Evans
Gyan Evans (born c. 1960), who performs as Gyan (), is an Australian singer-songwriter and record producer. She began her musical career in the Sydney band Haiku before winning the 1986 grand final in the local version of the TV talent quest ''Star Search''. This led to a recording contract with Warner Music, which resulted in her October 1989 debut self-titled album. It peaked in the top 30 on the ARIA Albums Chart and provided "Wait", which reached the top 20 on the ARIA Singles Chart. At the ARIA Music Awards of 1990 she won the ARIA Award for Best New Talent. Early years Gyan Evans was born in about 1960 and was raised in Geelong. Both her parents were English migrants and Gyan is the youngest of their four children. Her older sister Asakti Evans is also a singer. For secondary education Gyan attended Matthew Flinders Girls High School and, at the age of 17, changed her first name to Gyan: "I went to India ... I joined a weird religious cult and I was given that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jealous Guy
"Jealous Guy" is a song written and originally recorded by English rock musician John Lennon from his 1971 album ''Imagine (John Lennon album), Imagine''. Not released as a single during Lennon's lifetime, it became an international hit in a version by Roxy Music issued in early 1981; this version reached #1 in the UK and Australia, and was a top 10 hit in several European countries. Lennon's own version was subsequently issued as a single, and charted in the US and UK. Lennon began writing the song in 1968, when, as "Child of Nature", it was among the many songs demoed by the Beatles before they recorded their The Beatles (album), self-titled double album (also known as the "White Album"). The lyrics were originally inspired by a lecture given by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in early 1968, when the Beatles attended his spiritual retreat The Beatles in India, in Rishikesh, India. In January 1969, The Beatles (primarily John) jammed the song during their ''Let It Be (Beatles album), G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice (Tom Waits Album)
''Alice'' is the fourteenth studio album by Tom Waits, released in 2002 on Epitaph Records (under the ''Anti'' sub-label). Background The album contains the majority of songs written for the play ''Alice''. The adaptation was directed by Robert Wilson, whom Waits had previously worked with on the play ''The Black Rider'', and originally set up at the Thalia Theatre in Hamburg in 1992. The play has since been performed in various theatres around the world. The album was co-released with ''Blood Money'', an album containing songs from Wilson and Waits' 2000 musical ''Woyzeck''. ''Alice'' was ranked #2 in Metacritic's Top 30 albums of 2002. The songs had been released as a bootleg in several different versions called ''The Alice Demos'' many years before its official release. The source is believed to be studio recordings taken when Waits' car was broken into in late 1992. The song "Poor Edward" is about Edward Mordake. In 2006 it was awarded a diamond certification from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oh My Love
"Oh My Love" is a song written by John Lennon and Yoko Ono that appeared on Lennon's ''Imagine'' album in 1971. Information The song was originally written with different lyrics and demoed in 1968 after sessions for the album ''The Beatles''. This demo was released on many Beatles bootleg albums. Recorded on 28 May 1971 at Ascot Sound Studios, "Oh My Love" was the last song to be recorded for the ''Imagine'' LP. Former Beatle George Harrison contributed guitar on this song and several other songs for the album. His guitar work for the song echoes ''White Album'' songs "Julia" and "Happiness Is a Warm Gun". "Oh My Love" was also released on Lennon's album ''Wonsaponatime'' in 1998, and on the album ''The U.S. vs. John Lennon'' in 2006. It is track number 7 on ''Wonsaponatime'' and track number 20 on ''The U.S. vs. John Lennon''. Cover versions The song has been recorded by numerous artists, including Madness, The Bells, Cilla Black, Jackson Browne, Yoshida Brothers, Susheela R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Un Homme Et Une Femme
''A Man and a Woman'' (french: Un homme et une femme) is a 1966 French film written and directed by Claude Lelouch and starring Anouk Aimée and Jean-Louis Trintignant. Written by Lelouch and Pierre Uytterhoeven, the film concerns a young widow and widower who meet by chance at their children's boarding school and whose budding relationship is complicated by the memories of their deceased spouses. The film is known for its lush photography, which features frequent segues among full color, black-and-white, and sepia-toned shots, and for its music score by Francis Lai. ''A Man and a Woman'' sold a total of 4,272,000 cinema tickets in France and was also the 6th highest-grossing film of the year. In the United States, the film earned $14,000,000. The film won several awards, including the Palme d'Or at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival, two Golden Globe Awards for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Actress - Drama (for Aimée), and two Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Man With The Child In His Eyes
"The Man with the Child in His Eyes" is a song by Kate Bush. It is the fifth track on her debut album ''The Kick Inside'' and was released as her fourth single, on the EMI label, in 1978. Overview Bush wrote the song when she was 13 and recorded it at the age of 16. It was recorded at AIR Studios, London, in June 1975 under the guidance of David Gilmour. She has said that recording with a large orchestra at that age terrified her. The song was Bush's second chart single in the United Kingdom where it reached number six in the summer of 1978. In the United States, the single was released in December of the same year. It became her first single to reach the ''Billboard'' pop singles chart, peaking at number 85 early in 1979. Bush performed this song in her one appearance on ''Saturday Night Live'', singing on a piano being played by Paul Shaffer. The single version slightly differs from the album version. On the single, the song opens with the phrase "he’s here!" echoing, an e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Storytone
''Storytone'' is the 34th studio album by Canadian musician Neil Young, released on November 4, 2014 on Reprise Records. The album was released in two formats: a single disc, which features orchestral and big band arrangements of the songs, and a deluxe edition which includes stripped-back recordings of the songs. Young subsequently released a third version of the album, ''Mixed Pages of Storytone'', merging elements of both, later in the year. ''Storytone'' is the second studio album Neil Young released in 2014, following the predominantly lo-fi release ''A Letter Home''. Background In March 2014, Neil Young expressed interest in recording an album alongside an orchestra, stating: "I'd like to make a record with a full-blown orchestra, live – a mono recording with one mic. I want to do something like that where we really record what happened, with one point of view and the musicians moved closer and farther away, the way it was done in the past. To me that's a challenge and it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfie (Burt Bacharach Song)
"Alfie" is a song written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David to promote the 1966 film ''Alfie''. The song was a major hit for Cilla Black (UK) and Dionne Warwick (US). Background Although Bacharach has cited "Alfie" as his personal favorite of his compositions, he and Hal David were not eager to write a song to promote the film ''Alfie'' (a release from Paramount Pictures, which owned Famous Music) when approached by Ed Wolpin of the Composers' Guild. David thought the title character's name pedestrian: "Writing a song about a man called 'Alfie' didn't seem too exciting at the time." The composers agreed to submit an "Alfie" song if they could complete it within three weeks. Bacharach, in California, was inspired by a rough cut of the film about the Cockney womanizer played by Michael Caine. Bacharach felt that: "with 'Alfie' the lyric had to come first because it had to say what that movie was all about". He arranged for David – on Long Island – to receive a script of the film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
What'll I Do?
"What'll I Do" is a song written by Irving Berlin in 1923. It was introduced by singers Grace Moore and John Steel late in the run of Berlin's third '' Music Box Revue'' and was also included in the following year's edition."American Classics - Music Box Revues 1921-1924" (history), webpageAmClass-IBerlin Background "What'll I Do" is one of the few songs by Berlin that is clearly autobiographical. His fiancée, a society beauty named Ellin MacKay, had been sent to Europe by her disapproving father, a very wealthy Long Island magnate, in the hopes that MacKay would forget Berlin. (She did not and eventually they married.) The song was written during McKay's "tour" of Europe. In the lyrics, the singer longs disconsolately for his love, imagining how he can go on without her. Recordings *Nat King Cole recorded a cover for his album '' Unforgettable'' (1952). * Julie London recorded her version of this song in 1955, released in 1956 on her album ‘’Lonely Girl’’. * Johnn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moon River
"Moon River" is a song composed by Henry Mancini with lyrics by Johnny Mercer. It was originally performed by Audrey Hepburn in the 1961 movie ''Breakfast at Tiffany's (film), Breakfast at Tiffany's'', winning an Academy Award for Best Original Song. The song also won the 1962 Grammy Awards for Grammy Award for Record of the Year, Record of the Year and Grammy Award for Song of the Year, Song of the Year. The song has been recorded by many other artists. It became the theme song for Andy Williams, who first recorded it in 1962 (and performed it at the Academy Awards ceremony that year). He sang the first eight bars of the song at the beginning of each episode of The Andy Williams Show, his eponymous television show and named his production company and venue in Branson, Missouri, after it; his autobiography is called ''"Moon River" and Me''. Williams' version was never released as a single, but it charted as an LP track that he recorded for Columbia on a hit album of 1962, ''Moon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
"The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" is a 1957 folk song written by British political singer-songwriter Ewan MacColl for Peggy Seeger, who later became his wife. At the time, the couple were lovers, although MacColl was still married to his second wife, Jean Newlove. Seeger sang the song when the duo performed in folk clubs around Britain. During the 1960s, it was recorded by various folk singers and became a major international hit for Roberta Flack in 1972, winning Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Song of the Year. '' Billboard'' ranked it as the number one Hot 100 single of the year for 1972. History There are two differing accounts of the origin of the song. MacColl said that he wrote the song for Seeger after she asked him to pen a song for a play she was in. He wrote the song and taught it to Seeger over the telephone. Seeger said that MacColl, with whom she had begun an affair in 1957, used to send her tapes to listen to while they were apart and that the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Superfragilistically
''Superfragilistically'' is the fifth studio album by Australian singer-songwriter Gyan that was released in October 2010. Gyan said the album was four years in the making, "I came to this record with the idea of capturing precious little moments of beauty and holding them up just long enough to take their picture before they run for cover, like most endangered species, Thus SuperFRAGILE, and the 'istically' part of the title sa little present for Julie Andrews?" Critical reception ''Superfagilistically'' was named Album of the Week on ABC Radio National's Daily Planet. Bruce Elder from ''Sydney Morning Herald'' gave the album a four-star review, calling it "intensely beautiful, emotionally honest, sensitive and seductive". Matt Hill from ''The Northern Rivers Echo'' called it "a magical series of vignettes that feels like a book of short stories by the likes of Roald Dahl, Peter Carey or Gabriel Garcia Marquez". The Brisbane Courier ''The Courier-Mail'' is an Australian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |