Pseudo Echo - A Beat For You

And now, a little bit of australian new wave with this 1984 song from Pseudo Echo. Pseudo Echo was (I'm sorry, is, if I believe their official website) Brian Canham and Pierre Gigliotti, who met at school. They take their name from a synthesizer manual, pseudo echo machine being one of the sounds the machine could produce.



In my life I've many strong desires
And still in all I'm reaching for the fire
You never look, you never see
You never notice when you're next to me
But feel my heart, it's burning with desire

There's a beat for you in my heart
I tell you true from the start

Catch a glimpse, remember it forever
And still I try to keep myself together
You never speak, you never hear
You're never closer when I want you near
But feel my heart, it's burning with desire

There's a beat for you in my heart
I tell you true form the start

I Want to Spend Christmas with Elvis - Little Lambsie Penn

Don't we all, "Little Lambsie Penn"!
Note : although it may look like it, we're not obsessed with Elvis. Personally I like Buddy Holly ten thousand times better.

A pop music sub-genre called the "cash-in record," this takes place when a musical star becomes so famous that other people (read: record companies) feel obliged to perform songs about him or her. Elvis certainly falls into this category, wherein results this record, also performed by Debby Dabney and co-written by Bobby Darin. Other examples include "I Want to Spend Xmas With Elvis" by Marlene Paul (different spelling, different song) and "Elvis For Christmas" by Mad Milo, a Buchanan-Goodman styled novelty record. Note that these are just the Christmas-oriented Elvis cash-ins; there were plenty of others not related to the holiday, like "My Boy Elvis" by Janis Martin

To rock your christmas, I will now re-direct you to the site where I took this information from : mistletunes

The Walker Brothers - The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays to whomever stops by!

Written by Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio of The Four Seasons, The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine (Anymore) was first released by Frankie Valli in 1965.

This well-known version by The Walker Brothers is from '66.

Loneliness
Is a cloak you wear
A deep shade of blue
Is always there

The sun ain`t gonna shine anymore
The moon ain`t gonna rise in the sky
The tears are always clouding your eyes
When you`re without love (baby)

Emptiness
Is a place you`re in
With nothing to lose
But no more to win

The sun ain`t gonna shine anymore
The moon ain`t gonna rise in the sky
The tears are always clouding your eyes
When you`re without love

Lonely, without you baby
Girl I need you
I can`t go on

The sun ain`t gonna shine anymore
The moon ain`t gonna rise in the sky
The tears are always clouding your eyes
The sun ain't gonna shine anymore
When you're without love (baby)

The sun ain`t gonna shine anymore...

Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs - Li'l Red Riding Hood

US #1 hit of summer 1966. Owooo!
Sam "The Sham" recorded this song with his second set of "Pharaohs" (the first ones left after financial disagreements).
Below, a youtube cover - now, youtube users covers are usually really boring, but I think this one has a sweet voice.

Owoooooooo!
Who's that I see walkin' in these woods?
Why, it's Little Red Riding Hood.
Hey there Little Red Riding Hood,
You sure are looking good.
You're everything a big bad wolf could want.
Listen to me.

Little Red Riding Hood
I don't think little big girls should
Go walking in these spooky old woods alone.
Owoooooooo!

What big eyes you have,
The kind of eyes that drive wolves mad.
So just to see that you don't get chased
I think I ought to walk with you for a ways.

What full lips you have.
They're sure to lure someone bad.
So until you get to grandma's place
I think you ought to walk with me and be safe.

I'm gonna keep my sheep suit on
Until I'm sure that you've been shown
That I can be trusted walking with you alone.
Owoooooooo!

Little Red Riding Hood
I'd like to hold you if I could
But you might think I'm a big bad wolf so I won't.
Owoooooooo!

What a big heart I have-the better to love you with.
Little Red Riding Hood
Even bad wolves can be good.
I'll try to be satisfied just to walk close by your side.
Maybe you'll see things my way before we get to grandma's place.

Little Red Riding Hood
You sure are looking good
You're everything that a big bad wolf could want.
Owoooooooo! I mean baaaaaa! Baaa?

Pete Molinari - I don't like the man I am

This new (2008) yet timeless cover is brought to you by Pete Molinari, british singer/songwriter. They say he grew up with the Bob Dylan records of his brothers (can you tell?). He recorded an album with artist Billy Childish, who first performed this song.



no video, decent sound :

live version, bad sound :



I'm lying through my teeth
I can't express my grief
I ain't got the belief
It feels like I'm going beneath

Oh I can't love you
I really don't think that I can
Oh I can't love you
'cause I don't like the man I am

Ah there's a fool inside my head
He's making me see red
I don't want to get ahead
Oh I don't want to be led

Oh I can't love you
I really don't think that I can
Oh I can't love you
'cause I don't like the man I am

If I could only understand
The type of man I am
But I don't believe that I can
I never drew the plan

Oh I can't love you
I really don't think that I can
Oh I can't love you
'cause I don't like the man I am

Sweet - Love Is Like Oxygen

British glam/pop band Sweet ("The Sweet" before '75) released this in '78 - a big hit.

Punk had swept almost every last vestige of the old glam rock hierarchy into obscurity, and some two years had passed since the band even looked like bothering the British chart. Their American acclaim was growing fast, however, and that year's Level Headed album emerged a magnificent slice of mature reflection, heavy and heady in equal doses. Even within such exalted company, "Love Is Like Oxygen" glittered, a harmonic rocker highlighted by an insistent guitar riff and a winter-clear piano motif. Sundry sour critics have since pointed out that its lyric was little more than a softer rock rewrite of Hall & Oates' "Grounds for Separation," but that mattered naught. Edited down to become the band's first single of the year, it shot into the Top Ten on both sides of the Atlantic.

-allmusic

Time on my side
I got it all
I've heard that pride
Always comes before a fall
There's a rumour goin' round the town
That you don't want me around
I can't shake off my city blues
Everyway I turn I lose

Chorus
Love is like oxygen
You get too much you get too high
Not enough and you're gonna die
Love gets you high

Time is no healer
When you're not there
Lonely fever
Sad words in the air
Some things are better left unsaid
I'm gonna spend my days in bed
I'll walk the streets at night
To be hidden by the city lights city lights

Roy Orbison - Love Hurts

Here's a song from Roy "master of heartbroken lyrics" Orbison , in memoriam (it is the 20th anniversary of his death today). He died of a heart attack (!) at age 52 whilst visiting his mother in Tennessee.

Bonus : a song entitled "The day Roy Orbison died" by a band called The Marys.





Love hurts, love scars
Love wounds, and mars any heart
Not tough or stong enough
To take a lot of pain, take a lot of pain
Love is like a cloud, holds a lot of rain
Love hurts... ooh, ooh love hurts

I'm young, I know, but even so
I know a thing or two, and I learned from you
I really learned a lot, really learned a lot
Love is like a stove, it burns you when it's hot
Love hurts... ooh, ooh love hurts

Some fools rave of happiness
Blissfulness, togetherness
Some fools fool themselves I guess
They're not foolin me

I know it isn't true, I know it isn't true
Love is just a lie, made to make you blue
Love hurts...
Ooh, ooh love hurts, ooh, ooh love hurts

I know it isn't true, I know it isn't true
Love is just a lie, made to make you blue
Love hurts...
Ooh, ooh love hurts, ooh, ooh love hurts

Riz Ortolani - Love With Fun

Love With Fun is a variation on the main theme from Cannibal Holocaust.
Riz Ortolani also composed the soundtrack for Mondo Cane, winning a Grammy in 1962 with the film's main theme, More.

The images in the video may be a bit violent, but they're by no means gory (okay, so there's a girl puking and a good looking corpse, unless you're hyper sensitive you won't be bothered).

Lou Reed - Satellite of Love

1972.

There's good information about it on wikipedia.

Satellite's gone up to the skies
Thing like that drive me out of my mind

I watched it for a little while
I like to watch things on TV

Satellite of love
Satellite of love
Satellite of love
Satellite of ...

Satellite's gone way up to Mars
Soon it will be filled with parking cars

I watch it for a little while
I love to watch things on TV

Satellite of love ...

I've been told that you've been bold
With Harry, Mark and John
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, to Thursday
With Harry, Mark and John

Satellite's gone up to the skies
Thing like that drive me out of my mind

I watched it for a little while
I love to watch things on TV

Satellite of love ...

Domina - You Got My Soul

An italo-disco gem, sung by Dora Carofiglio of Valerie Dore and Novecento.
Unfortunately I only understand half of the words, otherwise there would be lyrics. ;>

The Walker Brothers - Nite Flights

And this one's from The Walker Brothers' last album, also titled Nite Flights (1978). Written and sung by Scott Walker.
David Bowie covered it in 1993 on Black Tie White Noise.

There's no hold
The moving has come through
The danger brushing you
Turns its face into the heat and runs the tunnels
It's so cold
The dark dug up by dogs
The stiches torn and broke
The raw meat fist you choke
Has hit the bloodlite

Glass traps open and close on nite flights
Broken necks feather weights press the walls
Be my love, we will be gods on nite flights
With only one promise, only one way to fall

Glass traps open and close on nite flights
Broken necks feather weights press the walls
Be my love, we will be gods on nite flights
With only one promise, only one way to fall

On nite flights
Only one way to fall

Barry Louis Polisar - All I Want Is You

Barry Louis Polisar not only makes songs but also books for children.
This video is from the movie Juno (which I have not seen) and the song appeared on his 1993 album Old Dog, New Tricks.



If I was a flower growing wild and free
All I'd want is you to be my sweet honey bee.
And if I was a tree growing tall and greeen
All I'd want is you to shade me and be my leaves

If I was a flower growing wild and free
All I'd want is you to be my sweet honey bee.
And if I was a tree growing tall and greeen
All I'd want is you to shade me and be my leaves

All I want is you, will you be my bride
Take me by the hand and stand by my side
All I want is you, will you stay with me?
Hold me in your arms and sway me like the sea.

If you were a river in the mountains tall,
The rumble of your water would be my call.
If you were the winter, I know I'd be the snow
Just as long as you were with me, when the cold winds blow.

All I want is you, will you be my bride
Take me by the hand and stand by my side
All I want is you, will you stay with me?
Hold me in your arms and sway me like the sea.

If you were a wink, I'd be a nod
If you were a seed, well I'd be a pod.
If you were the floor, I'd wanna be the rug
And if you were a kiss, I know I'd be a hug

All I want is you, will you be my bride
Take me by the hand and stand by my side
All I want is you, will you stay with me?
Hold me in your arms and sway me like the sea.

If you were the wood, I'd be the fire.
If you were the love, I'd be the desire.
If you were a castle, I'd be your moat,
And if you were an ocean, I'd learn to float.

All I want is you, will you be my bride
Take me by the hand and stand by my side
All I want is you, will you stay with me?
Hold me in your arms and sway me like the sea.

Scott Walker - Best of Both Worlds

From Scott Walker's second album Scott 2 (1968).

Scott was heavily influenced by Jacques Brel and Phil Spector's wall of sound in the early period of his solo career. Artists his music has influenced throughout the years include David Bowie, Brian Eno, Billy Mackenzie, Radiohead, David Sylvian, Douglas Pearce, Sting, Marc Almond, Jarvis Cocker, Alison Goldfrapp, The Divine Comedy and The Last Shadow Puppets.

Best of both worlds,
That's what you want
All your own way,
That's not my way
I won't share you,
I couldn't bear to
It's time for you to choose
Which one you'd rather loose
Could you love me,
And forget me
Are you sorry,
That you've met me?
What we've been through,
Means nothing to you
I can't satisfy you

You want best of both worlds
Make your fickle mind up
I won't stay while you enjoy
Best of both worlds

I have loved you
Since I found you
You belong here,
Just look around you
Keep your true love,
Or take your new love
You must choose between us,
You want best of both worlds
Make your fickle mind up
I won't stay while you enjoy
Best of both worlds

You've got to choose between us
You just can't have the two of us
Make your fickle mind up
I won't stay while you enjoy
Best of both worlds...

Hilde Hildebrand - Liebe ist ein Geheimnis

Hilde can be heard singing Liebe ist ein Geheimnis in "Die Englische Heirat" (1934).

Ill-fated actress Renate Müller, who can be seen dancing to it in the same film, also recorded a version of this tango.

edit: A kind soul uploaded the whole scene on youtube. Renate appears at 3:06.

Happy birthday to us!

One year old today!

and a mean one (tell us it ain't the truth!) :

Frank Munn - Lady Divine

Lady Divine is the theme song for 1929 silent film "The Divine Lady". Composed by Nat Shilkret and sung by tenor Frank Munn. There's not much information available on Frank Munn but I managed to find Frank's obituary on Time magazine online, which helps getting a better picture of who he was.


Visit the blog Vitaphone Varieties for plenty of information on old movie soundtracks.

Years of desire and wanting
Days that no pleasure knew
Love, dreams and fancy taunting
And then at last I found you

The rose of love soft caressing
Your lips, oh lady divine
My heart ? confessing
With hope is whispering today

Your eyes, your smile find me longing
To draw your breast to mine
?
And hear you saying you are my lady divine

The Carpenters - Superstar

baby baby baby baby, oh baby
The Carpenters sure were cheesy.





and here's an interesting cover by Sonic Youth :

long ago
and oh so far away
I fell in love with you
before the second show
your guitar
it sounds so sweet and clear
but you're not really there
it's just the radio

don't you remember you told me you loved me baby
you said you'd be coming back this way again baby
baby baby baby baby oh baby
I love you, I really do

loneliness, is such a sad affair
and I can hardly wait
to be with you again
what to say
to make you come again
come back to me again
and play your sad guitar

don't you remember you told me you loved me baby
you said you'd be coming back this way again baby
baby baby baby baby oh baby
I love you, I really do

don't you remember you told me you loved me baby
you said you'd be coming back this way again baby
baby baby baby baby oh baby
I love you, I really do

Dream City Film Club - If I Die, I Die

Here at cheesylovesongs, we do not wish to hurt sensitive souls. If you really don't like to see dead bunnies & blood, don't watch the video below.

Dream City Film Club was a very underrated band from the 90's - the frontman Michael J. Sheehy is, I believe, still recording. Here's a website if the band interests you : www.dreamcityfilmclub.com


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as I watch you sleeping
gently feel my way
into your dreams love
gently feel my way

you are so beautiful
I'd die to taste your kiss
I would give my (??) dear
for just one hour of bliss with you

they can tear me to pieces
they can break me in two
lover I don't care
as long as I'm with you
I'm not afraid, no
take my chances
and if I die I die

The Vaselines - Son Of a Gun

This song seems to be made for pillowfighting and general bouncing around.

I'm sure everyone knows the famous Nirvana cover- The Vaselines had a few other songs that were covered by Kurt Cobain's grunge gang. The Vaselines were Eugene Kelly & Frances McKee, two dirty-minded Scots who formed the band in 1986. They notably covered Divine's You think you're a man.



Swing swing up and down,
Turn turn turn around,
Round round round and about and over again.
Gun gun son of a gun,
You are the only one, And no one else can take my place.

The sun shines in the bedroom when you play,
And the raining always starts when you go away.

The Beach Boys - Wouldn't it be nice

Wouldn't it be nice, to live together in the kind of world where we belong?
I think that would kick ass. Seriously.

From Pet Sounds ( 1966 )



Wouldn't it be nice if we were older
Then we wouldn't have to wait so long
And wouldn't it be nice to live together
In the kind of world where we belong

You know it's gonna make it that much better
When we can say goodnight and stay together

Wouldn't it be nice if we could wake up
In the morning when the day is new
And after having spent the day together
Hold each other close the whole night through

Happy times together weve been spending
I wish that every kiss was neverending
Wouldn't it be nice

Maybe if we think and wish and hope and pray it might come true
Baby then there wouldnt be a single thing we couldnt do
We could be married
And then we'd be happy

Wouldn't it be nice

You know it seems the more we talk about it
It only makes it worse to live without it
But let's talk about it
Wouldn't it be nice