Old school music is cool!

[Citizen X]

Happy Birthday Lionel Richie

Commodores:Easy:1977:Album-Commodores: Lyrics and Video

Know it sounds funny
But I just can't stand the pain
Girl I'm leaving you tomorrow
Seems to me girl
You know I've done all I can
You see I begged, stole
And I borrowed

Ooh, that's why I'm easy
I'm easy like Sunday morning
That's why I'm easy
I'm easy like sunday morning

Why in the world
Would anyboddy put chains on me?
I've paid my dues to make it
Everbody wants me to be
What they want me to be
I'm not happy when I try to fake it!
No!

Ooh,that's why I'm easy
I'm easy like Sunday morning
That's why I'm easy
I'm easy like sunday morning

I wanna be high, so high
I wanna be free to know
The things I do are right
I wanna be free
Just me, babe!

That's why I'm easy
I'm easy like Sunday morning
That's why I'm easy
I'm easy like Sunday morning
Because I'm easy
Easy like Sunday morning
Because I'm easy
Easy like Sunday morning

[Blurock]

https://youtu.be/Q3VZaFXPAdQ?t=47s

[Loukie01]

Haha love the results on the poll...100% for old school music is cool. One vote in this country we can agree on ;0

[Citizen X]

Haha love the results on the poll...100% for old school music is cool. One vote in this country we can agree on ;0

Hi Loukie01, please feel free to post your favourite old school lyrics here.This thread is 'easy like a Sunday morning' I like to think of it as a place where I can unwind and let off some steam at times by revisiting songs of my youth.

"Remember music is a gift. Don't waste a precious drop of it, because we in your corner!" Jeanie Cunningham

[Blurock]

What is your best song of all time?

http://bestsongsever.com/

Amazing how many songs from the 60's and 70's are featured on this list.
Hotel California by the Eagles (2012) is the only song from the last 15 years to feature in the top 50. (Aretha Franklin recorded Respect in the 60's, not 2012)

Very difficult choice as music preferences may vary according to your mood.
I suppose Sound of Silence, Whiter Shade of Pale and Black Magic Woman will do it for me.
Or make that Jumpin' Jack Flash, Stairway to Heaven and Hotel California.
I cannot leave out Suite Judy Blue Eyes or Hey Joe.

Oh well, I guess I just love all good music.

[Citizen X]

If you want a WOW moment in musical history then you need not look further than Marvin Gaye and “Let’s get it on.’

Let’s analyse this in a round- about way. In almost every American Idol, many South Africa Idol and many other competitions, exceptionally good, talented and young men tried to take on Marvin Gaye’s “let’s get it on” the judges had to be very honest! They knew what they were dealing with! This was the legend: Marvin Gaye!!! So they were brutally honest. I don’t recall the comments verbatim, but it went something like this: ‘The song is too big for you,’ ‘You just don’t have his vocal range,’ ‘You just don’t have his natural sex appeal,’ etcetera, etcetera!

His still known as the ‘Prince of SOUL,’ ‘The PRINCE of Motown!”
What's Going On and its 1973 follow-up, Let's Get It On became among the first concept albums in R&B music.Gaye's later music influenced the quiet storm, urban contemporary, slow jam and neo-soul music genres.After spending years as a European tax exile in the early 1980s, Gaye returned on the 1982 Grammy Award-winning hit, "Sexual Healing" and the Midnight Love album. After a violent argument with his father, he was shot dead by him on April 1, 1984.
Gaye was posthumously inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. Gaye also ranked high on music magazines' lists, ranking at number 18 on the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time on the American music magazine, Rolling Stone, and he ranked number 20 on VH-1's list of 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. Gaye, who composed a three-octave vocal range,was subsequently ranked at number 6 on Rolling Stone's list of the Greatest Singers of All Time in 2008.[1]

It’s my sheer honour to give you Marvin Gaye(He’s on the nightshift), “Let’s get it on.”



“I've been really trying , baby
Trying to hold back these feelings for so long
And if you feel, like I feel baby
Come on, oh come on,

Let's get it on
Lets get it on
Let's get it on
Let's get it on

We're all sensitive people
With so much love to give, understand me sugar
Since we got to be
Lets say, I love you

There's nothin wrong with me
Lovin you
And givin yourself to me can never be wrong
If the love is true

Don't you know how sweet and wonderful, life can be
I'm askin you baby, to get it on with me
I aint gonna worry, I aint gonna push
So come on, come on, come on, come on baby
Stop beatin round the bush....

Let's get it on.”

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[1] Vide: Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Gaye. Accessed. 17 November 2012

Very difficult to select a single song as one's all time favourite. I select Marvin Gaye and his hit 'Let's get it on.'

[Marq]

I dont know how Sweet - love is like oxygen made it to no3 on this list (todays rank), but theres a lot I would vote for
There are 15 Michael Jackson songs in the top 100 of all time - and another 27 on the next 100 - 150 - haha - This tells me the list is rigged - Maybe one or two but not much more.

[Citizen X]

What is your best song of all time?

http://bestsongsever.com/

Amazing how many songs from the 60's and 70's are featured on this list.
Hotel California by the Eagles (2012) is the only song from the last 15 years to feature in the top 50. (Aretha Franklin recorded Respect in the 60's, not 2012)

Very difficult choice as music preferences may vary according to your mood.
I suppose Sound of Silence, Whiter Shade of Pale and Black Magic Woman will do it for me.
Or make that Jumpin' Jack Flash, Stairway to Heaven and Hotel California.
I cannot leave out Suite Judy Blue Eyes or Hey Joe.

Oh well, I guess I just love all good music.

From this list I select the following two songs:

John Lennon: Imagine: Number 21 of the list

Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today...

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace...

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one

and

Louis Armstrong: What a wonderful world: Number 13 on the list

I see trees of green, red roses, too,
I see them bloom, for me and you
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world.

I see skies of blue, and clouds of white,
The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world.
The colors of the rainbow, so pretty in the sky,
Are also on the faces of people going by.
I see friends shaking hands, sayin', "How do you do?"
They're really sayin', "I love you."
I hear babies cryin'. I watch them grow.
They'll learn much more than I'll ever know
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world
Yes, I think to myself
What a wonderful world

[Blurock]

I dont know how Sweet - love is like oxygen made it to no3 on this list (todays rank), but theres a lot I would vote for
There are 15 Michael Jackson songs in the top 100 of all time - and another 27 on the next 100 - 150 - haha - This tells me the list is rigged - Maybe one or two but not much more.

I have to agree with you, but also consider the American influence. The list will look different in different parts of the world. Old people will vote differently to the younger generation. It all depends on what you have been exposed to.

Here is the South African chart; totally different! http://bestsongsever.com/country/south-africa

[Citizen X]

I have to agree with you, but also consider the American influence. The list will look different in different parts of the world. Old people will vote differently to the younger generation. It all depends on what you have been exposed to.

Here is the South African chart; totally different! http://bestsongsever.com/country/south-africa

From the South African list, the two songs I select are

Pink Floyd: Comfortably Numb: Number 8 on the South African List



Hello,
Is there anybody in there?
Just nod if you can hear me.
Is there anyone at home?

Come on now
I hear you're feeling down
Well, I can ease your pain
And get you on your feet again

Relax
I'll need some information first
Just the basic facts
Can you show me where it hurts?

There is no pain, you are receding
A distant ship smoke on the horizon
You are only coming through in waves
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying
When I was a child I had a fever
My hands felt just like two balloons
Now I've got that feeling once again
I can't explain, you would not understand
This is not how I am
I have become comfortably numb

I have become comfortably numb

O.K.
Just a little pin prick
There'll be no more aaaaaaaah!
But you may feel a little sick

Can you stand up?
I do believe it's working, good
That'll keep you going through the show
Come on, it's time to go.

There is no pain you are receding
A distant ship smoke on the horizon
You are only coming through in waves
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying
When I was a child
I caught a fleeting glimpse
Out of the corner of my eye
I turned to look but it was gone
I cannot put my finger on it now
The child is grown
The dream is gone
I have become comfortably numb.

Dire Straits: Walk of life: Number 138 on the South African List





Here comes Johnny singing oldies, goldies
Be-Bop-A-Lua, Baby What I Say
Here comes Johnny singing I Gotta Woman
Down in the tunnels, trying to make it pay
He got the action, he got the motion
Yeah, the boy can play
Dedication devotion
Turning all the night time into the day

He do the song about the sweet lovin' woman
He do the song about the knife
He do the walk, he do the walk of life

Here comes Johnny and he'll tell you the story
Hand me down mu walkin' shoes
Here come Johnny with the power and the glory
Backbeat the talkin' blues
He got the action, he got the motion
Yeah, the boy can play
Dedication devotion
Turning all the night time into the day

He do the song about the sweet lovin' woman
He do the song about the knife
He do the walk, he do the walk of life

Here comes Johnny singing oldies, goldies
Be-Bop-A-Lula, Baby What I Say
Here comes Johnny singing I Gotta Woman
Down in the tunnels, trying to make it pay
He got the action, he got the motion
Yeah the boy can play
Dedication devotion
Turning all the night time into the day

And after all the violence and double talk
There's just a song in the trouble and the strife
You do the walk, you do the walk of life