YOU'VE GOT A FRIEND. CAROLE KING

 

Not to be confused with Randy Newman’s “You’ve Got a Friend in Me” from the 1995 animated film Toy Story, “You’ve Got a Friend” is a song written by Carole King for her 1971 album, Tapestry.

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"You've Got a Friend" is a 1971 song written by American singer-songwriter Carole King. It was first recorded by King and included on her second studio album, Tapestry (1971)

Another well-known version is by James Taylor from his album Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon. His was released as a single in 1971, reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and number four on the UK Singles Chart.

LYRICS.  Fill in the gaps

You've Got A Friend by Carole King

When you're down and troubled and you need some love and care,
and nothing, nothing is going right,
close your eyes and think of me and soon I will be there
to brighten up even your darkest night.

You (1)________ call out my name, and you know wherever I am,
I'll (2)________ running to see you again.
Winter, spring, summer, or fall, all you (3)________ to do is call
and I'll be there
You've got a friend.

If the sky above you grows dark and (4)________ of clouds,
And that old north wind  begins to blow,
Keep your (5)________ together and call my name out loud.
Soon you'll hear me knockin' at your door.

You just call out my name, and you (6)________ wherever I am,
I'll come running to see you again.
Winter, spring, summer, or fall, all you (7)________ to do is call
and I'll be there, yes, I will.
Now ain't it (8)________ to know that you've got a friend
when people can be so cold. They'll hurt you, yes, and (9)____________ you.
And, take your soul if you let them.
Oh, but don't you let them.

You just call out my name, and you know wherever I am,
I'll come running to see you again.
Winter, spring, summer, or fall, all you have to do is call
and I'll be there, yes, I will.

You've got a friend.
You've got a friend.
Ain't it good to know you've got a friend

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Aquí abajo tienes las palabras que faltaban

Answers:

(1) just  (2)come (3)have  (4) full  (5)head  (6)know  (7)have  (8)good  (9)desert

VOCABULARY.  

Slang is vocabulary (words, phrases, and linguistic usages) of an informal register, common in spoken conversation but avoided in formal writing.

ain't (very informal/slang)  = am not,  = is not = are not,  = has not = have not

ain't contraction	slang or nonstandard, abbreviation (am not)	no ser adv + v cop
		no estar adv + v cop
	I ain't a liar; I'm telling you the truth!
	No soy un mentiroso, te estoy diciendo la verdad.
ain't contraction	slang or nonstandard, abbreviation (is not)	no ser adv + v cop
		no estar adv + v cop
	Working two jobs ain't easy but I've got to pay the rent.
ain't contraction	slang or nonstandard, abbreviation (are not)	no ser adv + v cop
		no estar adv + v cop
	You ain't my dad; you can't tell me what to do!
	¡No eres mi padre, no puedes decirme lo que tengo que hacer!
ain't contraction	slang or nonstandard, abbreviation (have not)	no adv
Note: El adverbio negativo se coloca antes de cualquier verbo conjugado.
	I ain't got any money.
	¡Yo no tengo dinero!
ain't contraction	slang or nonstandard, abbreviation (has not) (con participio)	no haber adv + v aux
	The teacher ain't told us what to do yet.
	La maestra aún no ha dicho lo que debemos hacer.

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Behind The Song Lyrics: “You’ve Got a Friend,” Carole King, James Taylor

BY JACOB UITTI

Not to be confused with Randy Newman’s “You’ve Got a Friend in Me” from the 1995 animated film Toy Story, “You’ve Got a Friend” is a song written by Carole King for her 1971 album, Tapestry.

King’s version is rooted in piano, whereas the version by her longtime close friend James Taylor is recorded with the guitar up front. Taylor recorded it for his 1971 album, Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon. Taylor’s version hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 4 on the UK Singles Chart.

The two versions, which are now inseparable, like best friends, were recorded simultaneously and share the same musicians, including the legendary Joni Mitchell, who sings background vocals on both versions.

The song, which has since been covered by artists like Michael Jackson, Aretha Franklin, Celine Dion, and Donny Hathaway earned Grammy Awards for Taylor and King, who won Best Male Pop Vocal Performance and Song of the Year, respectively.

In terms of the writing, King has said that was the easy part. It almost felt like it was written by an entity outside herself, she says.

“The song was as close to pure inspiration as I’ve ever experienced,” she explained to Mojo Magazine. “The song wrote itself. It was written by something outside myself, through me.”

And Taylor told Rolling Stone that King told him the song came after hearing his song, “Fire and Rain.” That line is: I’ve seen lonely times when I could not find a friend.

King has also said she didn’t write it with Taylor or anyone else in mind. It’s just that when he heard it, he knew he wanted to record it, too.

The song lyrics are about platonic devotion. The love for someone else that’s so strong you’d do anything for them. But while this type of love is often expressed in romantic ways about amorous relationships, the song instead highlights friendship above all else.

 

To open the song, King wrote:

When you’re down and troubled

And you need some lovin’ care

And nothin’, nothin’ is goin’ right

Close your eyes and think of me

And soon I will be there

To brighten up even your darkest night

 

In today’s age of online vitriol and divisions across seemingly all fronts, it’s delightful to hear a song about enduring friendship and selfless behavior.

 

You just call out my name

And you know, wherever I am

I’ll come runnin’

To see you again

Winter, spring, summer or fall

All you have to do is call

And I’ll be there

You’ve got a friend

 

What makes the whole thing even more special is that Taylor (73), and King (79), remain great friends today. The two just premiered their new documentary on CNN, Just Call Out My Name, which showcased their friendship and deep admiration, both as people and as artists.

COVER

LYRICS

You’ve got a friend

When you're down and troubled
And you need some love and care
And nothing, nothing is going right
Close your eyes and think of me
And soon I will be there
To brighten up even your darkest night

You just call out my name
And you know wherever I am
I'll come running, to see you again
Winter, spring, summer or fall
All you have to do is call
And I'll be there
You've got a friend

If the sky above you
Grows dark and full of clouds
And that old north wind begins to blow
Keep your head together
And call my name out loud
Soon you'll hear me knocking at your door

You just call out my name
And you know wherever I am
I'll come running, running, yeah, yeah, to see you again
Winter, spring, summer or fall
All you have to do is call
And I'll be there, yes, I will

 Now, ain't it good to know that you've got a friend

When people can be so cold?
They'll hurt you, yes, and desert you
And take your soul if you let them,

oh, but don't you let them

You just call out my name
And you know wherever I am
I'll come running, running, yeah, yeah, to see you again
Winter, spring, summer or fall
All you have to do is call
And I'll be there, yes, I will
You've got a friend
You've got a friend

Ain't it good to know you've got a friend?
Ain't it good to know, ain't it good to know, ain't it good to know
You've got a friend?
Oh yeah now, you've got a friend
Yeah baby, you've got a friend
Oh yeah, you've got a friend

Carole King

ENDLESS LOVE - DIANA ROSS , LIONEL RICHIE

 

Información obtenida de la página: 

https://www.songfacts.com/facts/diana-ross-and-lionel-richie/endless-love

This song was from the 1981 film of the same name starring Brooke Shields. The film, which was based on a best-selling novel of the same name, was not very successful, but the song received Oscar and Golden Globe nominations and won a Marquee Award in 1982 for Best Original Song.

This ended up being one of the most popular songs of the '80s, but it began with more modest ambitions. Lionel Richie had risen from saxophone player in the Commodores to lead vocalist and primary songwriter in the group. He was still with them when Endless Love director Franco Zeffirelli asked him to write an instrumental theme along the lines of Henry Mancini's theme from the 1971 film Love Story. Richie, who was eager to add "film soundtrack" to his resumé, used a piece of music he had written for the Commodores but was never recorded. But then Zeffirelli decided he wanted lyrics. And that it should be a duet, maybe with Diana Ross. So Richie's assignment went from devising an instrumental theme song to composing and performing on a fully-formed duet with the most popular female vocalist in America. He was up for the challenge.

With lots of experience writing sentimental love songs, Richie penned some lyrics, using hyperbolic lines like "You're every breath that I take," befitting the movie title.

In 1994, Mariah Carey and Luther Vandross recorded this for Vandross' album Songs. It became Luther's biggest hit, going to #2 in the US. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nScV1qu-MZQ )

Ross and Richie performed this song at the Oscars in 1982, where it was nominated for Best Original Song (it lost to "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)"). Ross was used to this focused attention, but it was new to Richie, who was accustomed to sharing the stage with his band. After this performance, which reached a global audience in the hundreds of millions, Richie knew he would have to come into the spotlight as a solo artist.

This went to #1 in the US on August 15, 1981 - a little over three months after it was recorded. It stayed on top for an astonishing nine weeks, and also showed remarkable crossover appeal, topping the R&B chart for seven weeks and the Adult Contemporary chart for three.

COVER: Filippa Giordano Carlos Rivera - Endless Love

COVER: Marc Anthony and Sara Evans and Lionel Richie Endless Love

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE IS THE ONLY WAY

 

ENJOY!

SANTA

 

HAPPY Xmas (WAR IS OVER). JOHN LENNON/YOKO ONO

 

"Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" is a Christmas song released in 1971 as a single by John & Yoko/Plastic Ono Band with the Harlem Community Choir. It was the seventh single release by John Lennon outside his work with the Beatles. The song reached number four in the UK, where its release was delayed until November 1972 and has periodically reemerged on the UK Singles Chart, most notably after Lennon's murder in December 1980, when it peaked at number two.

Also a protest song against the Vietnam War, "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" has since become a Christmas standard, frequently recorded by other artists, appearing on compilation albums of seasonal music, and named in polls as a holiday favourite. In a UK-wide poll in December 2012, it was voted tenth on the ITV television special The Nation's Favourite Christmas Song. 

LYRICS

So this is Christmas
And what have you done
Another year over
And a new one just begun
And so this is Christmas
I hope you have fun
The near and the dear ones
The old and the young

A very Merry Christmas
And a Happy New Year
Let's hope it's a good one
Without any fear

And so this is Christmas (ooh)
For weak and for strong (ooh)
For rich and the poor ones (ooh)
The war is so long (ooh)
And so happy Christmas (war is over)
For black and for white (if you want it)
For yellow and red ones (war is over)
Let's stop all the fight (now)

A very Merry Christmas
And a Happy New Year
Let's hope it's a good one
Without any fear

And so this is Christmas (ooh)
And what have we done (ooh)
Another year over (ooh)
And a new one just begun (ooh)
And so happy Christmas (war is over)
We hope you have fun (if you want it)
The near and the dear ones (war is over)
The old and the young (now)

A very Merry Christmas
(And a Happy New Year) Ooh, oh
(Let's hope it's a good one) It' a good, it's a good one
Without any fear

And so this is Christmas (war is over)
And what have we done (if you want it)
Another year over (war is over)
And a new one just begun (now)

ABOUT THE SONG

 

https://www.songfacts.com/facts/john-lennon/happy-xmas-war-is-over

 

Songfacts®:

·         This is a very unusual Christmas song. Instead of evoking sleigh bells and mistletoe, it asks us to think about those who live in fear, and collectively bring about the end of war. The call to action is the refrain "war is over, if you want it."

It's an esoteric but not unfounded concept that John Lennon and Yoko Ono also put forth in "Imagine": If enough people want something to happen, it will. So the idea was to get us to actively desire peace, which could bring about the end of war.

·         John Lennon and Yoko Ono wrote this in their New York City hotel room and recorded it during the evening of October 28 and into the morning of the 29th, 1971, at the Record Plant in New York. It was released in the US for Christmas, but didn't chart. The next year, it was released in the UK, where it did much better, charting at #4. Eventually, the song became a Christmas classic in America, but it took a while.

·         John and Yoko spent a lot of time in the late '60s and early '70s working to promote peace. In 1969, they put up billboards in major cities around the world that said, "War is over! (If you want it)." Two years later this slogan became the basis for this song when Lennon decided to make a Christmas record with an anti-war message. John also claimed another inspiration for writing the song: he said he was "sick of 'White Christmas.'"

·         The children's voices are the Harlem Community Choir, who were brought in to sing on this track. They are credited on the single along with Yoko and The Plastic Ono Band.

·         Lennon and Ono produced this with the help of Phil Spector. Spector had worked on some of the later Beatles songs and also produced Lennon's "Instant Karma." It was not Spector's first foray into Christmas music: he and his famous session stars (including a 17-year-old Cher) spent six weeks in the summer of 1963 putting together A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector, featuring artists like The Ronettes and Darlene Love. Unfortunately, the album was released on November 22, 1963, which was the same day US president John F. Kennedy was assassinated. The album sold poorly as America was focused on news of the killing.

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·         This was originally released on clear green vinyl with Yoko Ono's "Listen, The Snow Is Falling" as the B-side.

·         At the beginning of the song, two whispers can be heard. Yoko whispers: "Happy Christmas, Kyoko" (Kyoko Chan Cox is Yoko's daughter with Anthony Cox) and John whispers: "Happy Christmas, Julian" (John's son with Cynthia). >>

·         This being a Phil Spector production, four guitarists were brought in to play acoustic guitars: Hugh McCracken (who had recently played on the Paul McCartney album Ram), Chris Osbourne, Stu Scharf and Teddy Irwin. According to Richard Williams, who was reporting on the session for Uncut, when Lennon taught them the song, he asked them to "pretend it's Christmas." When one of the guitarists said he was Jewish, John told him, "Well, pretend it's your birthday then."

As for the other personnel, Jim Keltner played drums and sleigh bells, Nicky Hopkins played chimes and glockenspiel. Keltner and Hopkins were part of Lennon's Plastic Ono Band, and a third member, Klaus Voorman, was supposed to play bass on this track, but got stuck on a flight from Germany. One of the guitarists brought in for the session covered the bass - which one nobody seems to remember.

·         John Lennon was shot and killed less than three weeks before Christmas in 1980. The song was re-released in the UK on December 20 of that year, reaching #2 (held off the top spot by "There's No One Quite Like Grandma" by St. Winifred's School Choir). It made the UK Top 40 again in 1981 (#28), 2003 (#32) and 2007 (#40). Also in 2003, a version sung by the finalists of the singing competition Pop Idol reached #5.

·         This didn't appear on an album until 1975, when it was included on Lennon's Shaved Fish singles compilation. Most Christmas songs are compiled with other songs of the season, but Shaved Fish listeners got to hear it year round.

·         At 1:15, there's a line in this song where Lennon sings what sounds to our ears like "the road is so long." This line was transcribed as "the world is so wrong" on the Shaved Fish back cover and was apparently published that way. As a result, most cover versions sing it as "the world is so wrong," but that would be a rather pessimistic view:

For rich and the poor ones
The world is so wrong

"The road is so long" seems more congruent with the hopeful message of the song, and is likely what he sang. Keep in mind that the lyrics didn't appear in print until Shaved Fish, four years after the song was released. It appears this line was transcribed incorrectly and has never been rectified.

·         Why not "Merry Christmas" or "Merry Xmas"? In England, "Happy Christmas" is a more common seasonal greeting and helped differentiate it from the holiday standard "Merry Christmas Baby." More confusing to Americans is "Father Christmas," which is the English version of Santa Claus.

·         The Fray were the first to chart with this song in America, reaching #50 in 2006; Sarah McLachlan's version went to #107 that same year. Other artists to cover it include The Alarm, The Cranes, The December People, and Melissa Etheridge (in a medley with "Give Peace a Chance").

The Australian artist Delta Goodrem also covered it in 2003, taking it to #1 in her native country as a double-A-side single with "Predictable." >>

·         This was covered by a group called Street Drum Corps. Bert McCracken, the frontman for rock band The Used, supplied vocals for their cover. It appears on the album Taste Of Christmas, released in the winter of 2005. The album is a compilation of classic and original Christmas songs as done by artists on the Taste Of Chaos tour. >>

·         The chords and melody borrow heavily from the traditional English folk standard "Skewball," in particular the 1963 version (titled "Stewball") by Peter, Paul and Mary.

·         When Lennon first played his demo for Phil Spector, the producer remarked that the song's opening line, "So this is Christmas..." was rhythmically identical to the Paris Sisters' 1961 hit "I Love How You Love Me," which he produced.

·         Though now a Christmas standard, Lennon originally penned this as a protest song about the Vietnam War, and the idea "that we're just as responsible as the man who pushes the button. As long as people imagine that somebody's doing it to them and that they have no control, then they have no control."

·         Miley Cyrus, Mark Ronson and Sean Ono Lennon came together at New York's Electric Lady studios to cover the song for the 2018 holiday season. Cyrus told Jimmy Fallon that they wanted to do a Christmas song, and there wasn't anything more relevant to what's going on in the world right now than 'War is Over.'"

She added that not only has Sean inherited his father's voice and looks, he's also got the former Beatles' "radiant magic."

The trio performed the song on the season finale of Saturday Night Live, December 15, 2018. For Cyrus, the song is a call to action for her generation, asking "what have we done?"

·         In November 2019, John Legend released a new version of the song titled "Happy Christmas (War Is Over)." He performed his cover with Jorja Smith at the Global Citizen Prize award ceremony on December 13, 2019 at London's Royal Albert Hall. Legend's interpretation peaked at #9 in the UK and #69 in the US.

 

FLY ME TO THE MOON

 

La finalidad es conseguir fluidez porque esta canción aporta un ritmo muy marcado y la pronunciación de Frank Sinatra es muy apropiada para realizar un ejercicio de SPEAKING/SINGING. 

Os animo a que memoricéis la letra y melodía y cantéis esta canción en cualquier momento.

"FLY ME TO THE MOON"  Frank Sinatra

Fly me to the moon
Let me play among the stars
Let me see what spring is like
On a, Jupiter and Mars
In other words, hold my hand
In other words, baby, kiss me

Fill my heart with song
And let me sing for ever more
You are all I long for
All I worship and adore
In other words, please be true
In other words, I love you

Fill my heart with song
Let me sing for ever more
You are all I long for
All I worship and adore
In other words, please be true
In other words, in other words
I love you

OTRAS VERSIONES

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN / GOD SAVE THE KING

 

‘God Save the King/Queen’ is one of the world’s best known anthems. But did you know it has another five verses? Here’s all you need to know.

‘God Save the King/Queen’ is the British national anthem, as well as that of all Commonwealth realms, their territories, and the Crown Dependencies in the British isles.

The words used today substitute ‘King’ for ‘Queen’ where appropriate. (from 6th February 1952 to 8th September 2022)

At official occasions, usually only the first verse is sung.

God Save the King
Letra en inglés
Primera estrofa (himno oficial del Reino)
God save our gracious King, Long live our noble King, God save the King: Send him victorious, Happy and glorious, Long to reign over us: God save the King.
Segunda estrofa (omitida)
Oh Lord, our God, arise, Scatter thine (or her) enemies, And make them fall: Confound their politics, Frustrate their knavish tricks, On thee our hopes we fix: God save us all.
Tercera estrofa (continuación en eventos reales)
Thy choicest gifts in store, On him be pleased to pour; Long may he reign: May he defend our laws, And ever give us cause With heart and voice to sing God save the King.	.

8 Sep 2022

Queen Elizabeth II dies aged 96

Cathy NewmanPresenter

Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-reigning monarch in British history, has died, Buckingham Palace has announced.

Puedes leer y ver el reportaje en el siguiente enlace:

Artículo con documental. Channel4, news/queen-Elizabeth-II-dies-aged-96