February 17th – Beach Boys – “Good Vibrations”

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In 1966, #GoodVibrations was recorded in one take by the #BeachBoys #singing;#feelgood

Good Vibrations

17-2 Surfing

I-I love the colorful clothes she wears
And the way the sunlight plays upon her hair
I hear the sound of a gentle word
On the wind that lifts her perfume through the airI’m pickin’ up good vibrations
She’s giving me excitations (Oom bop bop)
I’m pickin’ up good vibrations (Good vibrations, oom bop bop)
She’s giving me excitations (Excitations, oom bop bop)
Good, good, good, good vibrations (Oom bop bop)
She’s giving me excitations (Excitations, oom bop bop)
Good, good, good, good vibrations (Oom bop bop)
She’s giving me excitations (Excitations)

Close my eyes, she’s somehow closer now
Softly smile, I know she must be kind
When I look in her eyes
She goes with me to a blossom world

I’m pickin’ up good vibrations
She’s giving me excitations (Oom bop bop)
I’m pickin’ up good vibrations (Good vibrations, oom bop bop)
She’s giving me excitations (Excitations, oom bop bop)
Good, good, good, good vibrations (Oom bop bop)
She’s giving me excitations (Excitations, oom bop bop)
Good, good, good, good vibrations (Oom bop bop)
She’s giving me excitations (Excitations)

(Ahh)
(Ah, my my, what elation)
I don’t know where but she sends me there
(Oh, my my, what a sensation)
(Oh, my my, what elation)
(Oh, my my, what)

Gotta keep those lovin’ good vibrations a-happenin’ with her
Gotta keep those lovin’ good vibrations a-happenin’ with her
Gotta keep those lovin’ good vibrations a-happenin’

(Ahh)

Good, good, good, good vibrations (Oom bop bop)
(I’m pickin’ up good vibrations) (Oom bop bop)
She’s giving me excitations (Excitations, oom bop bop)
Good, good, good, good vibrations

Na na na na na, na na na
Na na na na na, na na na (Bop bop-bop-bop-bop, bop)
Do do do do do, do do do (Bop bop-bop-bop-bop, bop)
Do do do do do, do do do (Bop bop-bop-bop-bop, bop)

17-2 Beach Boys Good Vibrations

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February 16th – Tomb of Tutunkhamen opened – “You’re as cold as ice”

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In 1923, #HowardCarter entered the tomb of the #pharoah #Tutunkhamen.  In a nod to the #WinterOlympics in #Sochi, here is a song which describes King Tut in terms the competitors would recognise #singing;#feelgood

You’re as cold as ice

16-2 King Tut

You’re as cold as ice
You’re willing to sacrifice our loveYou never take advice
Someday you’ll pay the price
I knowI’ve seen it before
It happens all the time
You’re closing the door
You leave the world behind
You’re digging for gold
Yet throwing away
A fortune in feelings
But someday you’ll pay

You’re as cold as ice
You’re willing to sacrifice our love
You want Paradise
But someday you’ll pay the price
I know

I’ve seen it before
It happens all the time
You’re closing the door
You leave the world behind
You’re digging for gold
Yet throwing away
A fortune in feelings
But someday you’ll pay

Cold as ice, you know that you are
Cold, cold, as, as, ice, as cold as ice to me
Cold, cold, as, as, ice

Ooh, ooh, ooh, cold as, cold as ice
You’re as cold as ice
You’re as cold as ice, cold as ice, I know
You’re as cold as ice, yes I know
You’re as cold as ice, cold as ice, I know
You’re as cold as ice, oh yes I know
You’re as cold as ice, cold as ice, I know
You’re as cold as ice, oh yes I know
You’re as cold as ice, cold as ice

16-2 Foreigner Cold as Ice

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February 15th – Ethel Merman dies – “There’s no business like show business”

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In 1984, #EthelMerman died.  Here is a song you won’t to be able to resist singing along with #singing;#feelgood

There’s no business like show business

15-2 Chorus Line

There’s no business like show business
Like no business I know
Everything about it is appealing
Everything that traffic will allow
Nowhere could you get that happy feeling
When you are stealing that extra bowThere’s no people like show people
They smile when they are low
Yesterday they told you you would not go far
That night you open and there you are
Next day on your dressing room
They’ve hung a star
Let’s go, on with the showThe costumes, the scenary, the make-up, the props
The audience that lifts you when you’re down
The headaches, the heartaches, the backaches, the flops
The sheriff that escorts you out of town
The opening when your heart beats like a drum
The closing when the customers don’t come

There’s no business like show business
Like no business I know
You get word before the show has started
That your favorite uncle died at dawn
Top of that, your pa and ma have parted
You’re broken-hearted, but you go on

There’s no people like show people
They smile when they are low
Even with a turkey that you know will fold
You may be stranded out in the cold
Still you wouldn’t change it for a sack of gold
Let’s go on with the show
Let’s go on with the show

15-2 Ethel Merman No business like show business

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February 14th – Valentines Day – “I just called to say I love you”

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Every year (!) we have #ValentinesDay.  Here is #StevieWonder with an appropriate song #singing;#feelgood

I just called to say I love you

14-2 Hearts

No New Year’s Day to celebrate
No chocolate covered candy hearts to give away
No first of spring
No song to sing
In fact here’s just another ordinary dayNo April rain
No flowers bloom
No wedding Saturday within the month of June
But what it is, is something true
Made up of these three words that I must say to youI just called to say I love you
I just called to say how much I care
I just called to say I love you
And I mean it from the bottom of my heart

No summer’s high
No warm July
No harvest moon to light one tender August night
No autumn breeze
No falling leaves
Not even time for birds to fly to southern skies

No Libra sun
No Halloween
No giving thanks to all the Christmas joy you bring
But what it is, though old so new
To fill your heart like no three words could ever do

I just called to say I love you
I just called to say how much I care, I do
I just called to say I love you
And I mean it from the bottom of my heart

I just called to say I love you
I just called to say how much I care, I do
I just called to say I love you
And I mean it from the bottom of my heart, of my heart,
of my heart

I just called to say I love you
I just called to say how much I care, I do
I just called to say I love you
And I mean it from the bottom of my heart, of my heart,
baby of my heart

14-2 Stevie Wonder I just called to say

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February 13th – “Take That” split – “Greatest Day”

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In 1996, super group #TakeThat” split.  Was it their #GreatestDay ? #singing;#feelgood

Greatest Day

13-2 Take That

Today this could be, the greatest day of our lives
Before it all ends, before we run out of time
Stay close to me,
Stay close to me
Watch the world come alive tonight
Stay close to me.Tonight this could be the greatest night of our lives
Let’s make a new start,
The future is ours to find
Can you see it, can you see it in my eyes
Can you feel it now, can you hold it in your arms tonight
Hold on
Hold on,
Hold on
Hold on (Tonight)
Hold on
Hold onOh stay close to me (Hold On)
Stay close to me
Watch the world come alive tonight
Stay closes me

Ooooooh
Hold your head high, (Hold On)
Arms open wide
Yea the world starts to come alive when you stay close it me

Today this could be the greatest day of our lives
Today this could be the greatest day of our lives

Oooooh
And the world comes alive
And the world comes alive
And the would comes alive
Oh oh oooooh
Stay close to me (and the world comes alive) hold on
Stay close to me (and the world comes alive)
Watch the world come alive tonight
Stay close to me (Hold on)
Oh stay close to me and the world comes alive
Stay close to me and the world comes alive

Watch the world come alive tonight
(stay close to me) oh oh ohoooo

13-2 Take That Greatest Day

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February 12th – Gershwin “Rhapsody in Blue” debuts – “I’ve got rhythm”

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In 1924. #Gershwin premiered his orchestral / piano piece #RhapsodyInBlue.  Here is a classic song of his #singing;#feelgood

I’ve got rhythm

12-2 Gershwin

Days can be sunny with never a sigh
Don’t need what money can buy
Birds in the trees sing their dayful of songs
Why shouldn’t we sing along?
I’m chipper all the day
Happy with my life
How do I get that way?
Look at what I’ve got:

I got rhythm, I got music, I got my man
Who could ask for anything more?
I’ve got daisies in green pastures
I’ve got my man
Who could ask for anything more?

Old man trouble I don’t mind him
You won’t find him ’round my door
I’ve got starlight
I’ve got sweet dreams
I’ve got my man
Who could ask for anything more?

Old man trouble, I don’t mind him
You won’t find him ’round my door
I’ve got starlight
I’ve got sweet dreams
I’ve got my man
Who could ask for anything more?

Oh, I’ve got rhythm
I’ve got music
I’ve got daisies in green pastures
I’ve got starlight
I’ve got sweet dreams
I’ve got my man
Who could ask for anything more?

I’ve got rhythm, I’ve got rhythm …

12-2 Bing Crosby Ive got rhythm

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February 11th – Whitney Houston dies – “I will always love you”

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In 2012, #WhitneyHouston died.  Here is a great song she sang “I will always love you” #singing;#feelgood

I will always love you

11-2 Whitney Houston

If I should stay
I would only be in your way
So I’ll go but I know
I’ll think of you every step of the wayAnd I… will always love you, ooh
Will always love you
You
My darling, you…
Mmm-mmBittersweet memories –
That is all I’m taking with me.
So good-bye.
Please don’t cry:
We both know I’m not what you, you need

And I… will always love you
I… will always love you
You, ooh

[Instrumental / Sax solo]

I hope life treats you kind
And I hope you have all you’ve dreamed of
And I wish you joy and happiness
But above all this I wish you love

And I… will always love you
I will always love you
I will always love you
I will always love you

I will always love you
I, I will always love you.

You.
Darling, I love you.
I’ll always…
I’ll always love you.
Ooh
Ooh

11-2 Whitney Houston I will always love you

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February 10th – Deep Blue beats Kasparov at Chess – “One night in Bankok”

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In 1996, #DeepBlue, a #computer, beat #Kasparov at #chess.  Here is a song from the musical of that name #singing;#feelgood

One night in Bankok

10-1 Chess board

Bangkok!
Oriental setting
And the city don’t know what the city is getting
The créme de la créme of the chess world in a
Show with everything but Yul BrynnerTime flies doesn’t seem a minute
Since the Tyrolean spa has the chess boys in it
All change dom’t you know that when you
Play at this level there’s no ordianry venue
It’s Iceland or the Philippines or Hastings or this placeOne night in Bankok and the worlds’s your oyster
The bars are temples but the pearls ain’t free
You’ll find a god in every golden cloister
And if you’re lucky then the god’s a she
I can feel an angel sliding up to me

One town is very like another
When you head’s down over your pieces brother

Tea girls warm and sweet (warm sweet)
Some are set up in the Somerset Maugham suite
Get Thai’d you’re talking to a tourist
Whose every move’s among the purest
I get my kicks above the waistline sunshine

One night in Bankok makes a hard man humble
Not much between despair and ecstasy
One night in Bankok an the tough guys tumble
Can’t bee to careful with your comapny
I can feel the devil walking next to me

Siam’s gotta be the witness
To the ultimate test of cerebral fitness
This grips me more than would a
Muddy old river or reclining Buddha

And thank god I’m only watching the game
Controlling it

I don’t see you guys rating
The kind of mate I’m contemplating
I’d let you watch I would invite you
But the queens wee use would not excite you

So you’d better go back to your bars
your temples
your massage parlours

One night in Bankok and the worlds’s your oyster
The bars are temples but the pearls ain’t free
You’ll find a god in every golden cloister
A little flesh a little history
I can feel an angel sliding up to me

One night in Bankok makes a hard man humble
Not much between despair and ecstasy
One night in Bankok an the tough guys tumble
Can’t bee to careful with your comapny
I can feel a devil walking next to me

10-2 Chess soundtrack

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February 9th – Madonna at No. 1 – “Like a virgin”

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In 1988, #Madonna got to No.1 in the US with #LikeAVirgin #singing;#feelgood

Like a Virgin

9-2 Madonna

I made it through the wilderness
Somehow I made it through
Didn’t know how lost I was
Until I found youI was beat incomplete
I’d been had, I was sad and blue
But you made me feel
Yeah, you made me feel
Shiny and new[Chorus:]Like a virgin
Touched for the very first time
Like a virgin
When your heart beats [after first time, “With your heartbeat”]
Next to mine

Gonna give you all my love, boy
My fear is fading fast
Been saving it all for you
‘Cause only love can last

You’re so fine and you’re mine
Make me strong, yeah you make me bold
Oh your love thawed out
Yeah, your love thawed out
What was scared and cold

[chorus]

Oooh, oooh, oooh

You’re so fine and you’re mine
I’ll be yours ’till the end of time
‘Cause you made me feel
Yeah, you made me feel
I’ve nothing to hide

[chorus]

Like a virgin, ooh, ooh
Like a virgin
Feels so good inside
When you hold me, and your heart beats, and you love me

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Ooh, baby
Can’t you hear my heart beat
For the very first time?

9-2 Madonna Like a Virgin

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February 8th – Author John Grisham born – “Sue me”

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In 1955, the author #JohnGrisham.  Here is an appropriate song from #GuysAndDolls #singing;#feelgood

Sue me

8-2 Judge

You promise me this, you promise me that
You promise me anything under the sun
Then you give me a kiss and you’re grabbing your hat
And you’re off to the races again

When I think of the time gone by
Adelaide, Adelaide!
And I think of the way I tried
Adelaide!
I could honestly die

Call a lawyer and sue me, sue me
What can you do me, I love you
Give a holler and hate me, hate me
Go ahead, hate me, I love you

The best years of my life
I was a fool to give to you

Alright, already, I’m just a no-good nick
Alright, already, it’s true, so new
So sue me, sue me, what can you do me? I love you

You gamble it here, you gamble it there
You gamble on everything, all except me
And I’m sick of you keeping me up in the air
Till your back in the money again

When I think of the time gone by
Adelaide, Adelaide!
And I think of the way I tried
Adelaide!
I could honestly die

Serve a paper and sue me, sue me
What can you do me, I love you
Give a holler and hate me, hate me
Go ahead, hate me, I love you

When you wind up in jail
Don’t come to me to bail you out

Alright, already, so call a policeman
Alright, already, it’s true, so new
So sue me, sue me, what can you do me? I love you

You’re at it again, you’re running the game
I’m not gonna play second fiddle to that
And I’m sick and tired of strolling around
And I’m telling you now that we’re through

When I think of the time gone by
Adelaide, Adelaide!
And I think of the way I tried
Adelaide!
I could honestly die

Sue me, sue me
Shoot bullets through me, I love you

8-2 Guys and Dolls Sue me

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