TERRY HOKNES - MY FAVORITE SONGS OF ALL TIME !  hoknes@hotmail.com   

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ANANTA

WHEEL OF TIME

1978

342

BOSTON

LET ME TAKE YOU HOME TONIGHT

1976

343

CROSBY STILLS & NASH

YOU DON'T HAVE TO CRY

1969

344

BEATLES

HELLO GOODBYE

1967

345

McCOYS

FEVER

1965

346

TERRY HOKNES

MS GALAXY

2001

347

DEREK & THE DOMINOES

LAYLA

1970

348

DURAN DURAN

REFLEX

1984

349

FAITH HILL

WAY YOU LOVE ME

2001

350

MARY J BLIGE

BE WITH YOU

2005

351

KORN featuring SKRILLEX

NARCISSISTIC CANNIBAL

2011

352

JOHN LENNON

JEALOUS GUY

1971

353

KISS

LOVE GUN

1977

354

PAUL McCARTNEY & WINGS

SOME PEOPLE NEVER KNOW

1971

355

ACE FREHLEY

NEW YORK GROOVE

1978

356

TERRY HOKNES

IT IS COLD

2005

357

CROSBY STILLS NASH & YOUNG

DON'T SAY GOODBYE

1988

358

5TH DIMENSION

LOVIN' STEW

1968

359

CARPENTERS

MR GUDER

1970

360

FAITH HILL

THERE YOU'LL BE

2001

    ANANTA - WHEEL OF TIME (1978)

Album:  Night And Daydream (1978)

Some people say at times they sound like The Beatles meet Steely Dan with a hare Krishna touch !  This is a very unique album.  Fans of Klaatu might like this one as it sounds like them on this song !

I bought this album at a garage sale in 1987 and this was the 2nd #1 song they had from the album on my charts.

October 3rd 1988 - my #1 favorite daily song at age 17.

Fifth track off the album "Night and Daydream" (Canadian pressing, Touchstone Sound Recordings BBT 112-T)

Another ISKCON (aka the "Hare Krishna Guys") music production, and a very good one, too.

Venezuelan singer and keyboardist Ilan Chester was born in Jaffa, Isarel and raised in Venezuela. He had a wide variety of musical influences, and these influences are what makes his multipule talents in his music.

In 1978, he formed the prog/fusion band Ananta in England with the Spiteri brothers (who were natives from Venezuela), Patrick Bernard, Mark Francis, and Dave Early. Patrick Bernard believed in Krishna conconciousness, so I guess he thought about putting spiritual themes in Ananta's lyrics. And they did!
 

    BOSTON - LET ME TAKE YOU HOME TONIGHT (1976)

Album:  Boston (1976)

My all my time favorite male lead vocalist Brad Delp of Boston singing.  Such a rocking catchy song with big harmonies and big guitars.   I saw them live in 1988 at SaskPlace in Saskatoon and it was the greatest concert I had ever been to and that record held for 14 years.   Tom Scholz created this big perfect studio clean production of big distorted guitars with big harmonies that is possibly my favorite "sound".   

December 20th 1988 - my #2 favorite daily song for 2 days at age 17 the week I saw Boston in concert. 

March 9th 2000 - my #5 favorite daily song for 20 days at age 29.

Boston is the debut album by American rock band Boston, released in July 1976 on Epic Records. It peaked at #3 on the Billboard 200, and has been certified as selling 17x platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America in 2003. The album is the second best-selling debut album of all-time in the United States, after Guns N' Roses's Appetite for Destruction. Worldwide, Boston has sold nearly 20 million copies

    CROSBY STILLS & NASH - YOU DON'T HAVE TO CRY (1969)

Album:  Crosby Stills & Nash (1969)

September 8th 1990 - my #5 favorite daily song for 1 day at age 19 in 2nd year University

August 20th 2003 - my #3 favorite daily song for 37 days at age 32 at the time I saw CSN in concert for the 2nd time and the week I put down my dog Chewie and moved into my 1st home alone at Eastview.

Crosby, Stills & Nash is the first album by Crosby, Stills & Nash, released in 1969 on the Atlantic Records label. It spawned two Top 40 hits, "Marrakesh Express" and "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes," which peaked respectively at #28 the week of August 23, 1969, and at #21 the week of October 25, 1969, on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. The album itself peaked at #6 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart

    THE BEATLES - HELLO GOODBYE (1967)

Album:  Magical Mystery Tour (1967)

I probably did have the album by late 1981 or might have got it for Xmas 1981 as I have recordings of myself singing along with the album in summer 1982 at age 11 with my sister Leslie age 9.

Hello, Goodbye" is a song by The Beatles. The song was released as a single in November 1967, and topped the charts in the United States, the United Kingdom, France and Norway. The song also was a number two hit in both Austria and Switzerland.

Though the songwriting credit is Lennon–McCartney, it was written solely by Paul McCartney.

Alistair Taylor, who worked for the Beatles' manager, Brian Epstein, had asked McCartney how he wrote his songs, and McCartney took him into his dining room to give him a demonstration on his harmonium. He asked Taylor to shout the opposite of whatever he sang as he played the instrument—black and white, yes and no, stop and go, hello and goodbye. Taylor later said, "I wonder whether Paul really made up that song as he went along or whether it was running through his head already."

Under the working title "Hello Hello", the Beatles recorded the backing track on 2 October 1967, and added vocals and a guitar overdub on the 19th. After further overdubs of bass guitar and viola, recording was completed on 2 November, and mixing on the 6th. "Hello Goodbye" is in the key of C Major and in 4/4 time.

The song features a coda which came spontaneously in the studio. Of this, McCartney said "I remember the end bit where there's the pause and it goes 'Heba, heba hello'. We had those words and we had this whole thing recorded but it didn't sound quite right, and I remember asking Geoff Emerick if we could really whack up the echo on the tom-toms. And we put this echo full up on the tom-toms and it just came alive.   One of the notable features in the song is Ringo Starr's busy drumming.

    THE MCCOYS - FEVER (1965)

Classic song I learned at age 11 on Flashback Fever compilation record I bought new at Kresges Department Store in 1982.

McCoys were a rock group that started in Union City, Indiana, in 1962.

The original members, all from Union City, were guitarist Richard Zehringer (later known as Rick Derringer), his brother Randy on drums, and bassist Dennis Kelly. This first line-up was known as "The Rick Z Combo", and later known as "Rick and the Raiders". When Kelly left for college, the Zehringers were joined by bassist Randy Jo Hobbs, saxophonist Sean Michaels, and keyboardist Ronnie Brandon. This was the line-up that took the name of "The McCoys". Brandon left the group in 1965 and was replaced by Bobby Peterson on keyboards.

One of their best-known songs is "Hang On Sloopy", which was #1 in America in the Billboard Hot 100 chart in October 1965 and is the official rock song of the state of Ohio. American sales alone were over one million copies.Other hits include a Top 10 cover of "Fever" (Billboard #7), and a Top 40 cover of Ritchie Valens's "Come On Let's Go" (Billboard #21).

A cover of "Sorrow", the B-side of their version of "Fever", was a hit in the United Kingdom for The Merseys and was later covered again by David Bowie. Its opening line, "with your long, long hair and eyes of blue" was quoted by George Harrison in the fadeout of "It's All Too Much", featured on the 1969 Yellow Submarine film soundtrack album.

    TERRY HOKNES - MS GALAXY (2001) Opus #1010 - written in 1996 for Marilyn - 15 minutes

As the new century began a new chapter in songwriting where the focus was more on recording polished songs but writing way less and very sporadic.    I had written 500 songs by the age of 19 and had hit 1000 songs by the age of 25.  But since then I can go over a year at a time without writing a song but really focusing in most cases on a more commercial type of polished song however I still venture into all possible genres.  I continue to play and sing every part on all my songs and recordings.

I hired Neil Meckelborg of Audio Art to record my songs in 2001.  We started out recording a full album at their location downtown behind the Bus depot but eventually worked on recordings at Neil's private studio.  In total we recorded 3 full albums of material of my songs and a full length album of songs I wrote with Marilyn Parney that I produced.  Neil and I also worked on a Trooper hit song karaoke CD in 2001.  I spent 18 months recording with Neil and over 40 songs and over $10,000.00 in studio bills I paid at that time to record the best quality audio ever on my songs.  Neil had used Sonar Cakewalk so I learned how to use it and have used that now for a decade in my own studio.

    DEREK AND THE DOMINOES - LAYLA (1970)

Album:  Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs (1970)

A masterpiece of 2 different sections which really come across as 2 different songs. I love the beautiful piano ending and actually started to write lyrics for it a few years back.

October 12th 1988 - my #2 favorite daily song for 6 days at age 17 taking extra high school classes the fall after I had graduated grade 12.

Layla" is a song written by Eric Clapton and Jim Gordon, originally released by their blues rock band Derek and the Dominos, as the thirteenth track from their album Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (December 1970). It is considered one of rock music's definitive love songs, featuring an unmistakable guitar figure played by Eric Clapton and Duane Allman, and a piano coda that comprises the second half of the song. Its famously contrasting movements were composed separately by Clapton and Gordon.

Inspired by Clapton's then unrequited love for Pattie Boyd, the wife of his friend and fellow musician George Harrison, "Layla" was unsuccessful on its initial release. The song has since experienced great critical and popular acclaim, and is often hailed as being among the greatest rock songs of all time. Two versions have achieved chart success, the first in 1972 and the second (without the piano coda) twenty years later as an acoustic "Unplugged" performance. In 2004 it was ranked #27 on Rolling Stone's list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time", and the acoustic version won the 1993 Grammy Award for Best Rock Song.  The album Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs opened to lacklustre sales (the album never reached the charts in Britain), possibly in part because Clapton's name was found only on the back cover. In addition, the song's length proved prohibitive for radio airplay; as a result an edited version of the song, trimmed to 2:43, was released as a single in March 1971 by Atco Records (US). It peaked at #51 on the Billboard Hot 100.

When "Layla" was re-released on the 1972 compilation The History of Eric Clapton and then released as a single, it charted at #7 in the UK and #10 in the US. In 1982 "Layla" was re-released as a single in the UK, and peaked at #4. This time the whole 7 minute single charted, containing the trailing two-thirds which is instrumental only.

    DURAN DURAN - THE REFLEX (1984) hit #1
The Reflex" is the eleventh single by Duran Duran, released worldwide on 16 April 1984.

The song was heavily remixed for single release and was the third and last to be taken from their third album Seven and the Ragged Tiger.

"The Reflex" became the band's most successful single. It was their second single to top the UK singles chart, after "Is There Something I Should Know?" in 1983, topping the chart on 5 May, and would prove to be their last UK #1. It was also Duran Duran's first single to hit number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 (for two weeks) on 23 June 1984 (see 1984 in music), and became a huge hit internationally. The band wanted it to be the lead single from Seven and the Ragged Tiger, but their label didn't like the warbling singing during the "why don't you use it" segments, thinking this would hinder its success as a stand alone single track.

The remixes for both the 7" and 12" singles were done by Nile Rodgers, of Chic fame. It was his first work with the band, and he would later go on to produce "The Wild Boys" single as well as the album Notorious (1986) and several tracks on Astronaut (2004).

Producer Ian Little recalls the sound Nick Rhodes came up with on his Roland Jupiter-8 keyboard: "...whenever I hear that steel-drum part it always brings a smile to my face because it's so out of tune. Steel drums always are, but it was exactly right in terms of rhythm and tone. So a wood-block sound was mixed in to make it even more percussive and, successfully, it did the job."

The video for "The Reflex" was shot during the Sing Blue Silver tour at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto, Ontario on 5 March 1984. Director Russell Mulcahy filmed some of the closeup footage in the indoor arena that afternoon, and the rest was filmed live during that evening's concert

    FAITH HILL - THE WAY YOU LOVE ME (2001) hit #7
The Way You Love Me" is a song by American country music artist Faith Hill. It was the second single off her 1999 Breathe album, released as a single in 2000. It was also her second number one country single from her CD Breathe and her 8th number one country single overall. This song spent four weeks at #1 on the Billboard Country charts in May 2000 and peaked at #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 on December 30, 2000.

The music video for "The Way You Love Me" was directed by Joseph Kahn.It first aired on television the week of August 21, 2000. The music video shows Faith as many different characters. It shows Faith as a mom, meteorologist, waitress, heiress, and nurse.

There was also a remix video using the "Love To Infinity Remix". The only difference is that Faith is shown as two extra characters, a police officer and a robber. Jennette McCurdy best known as Sam Puckett on iCarly, was also featured in the video as Hill's daughter in the backseat of a station wagon  

Faith Hill (born Audrey Faith Perry; September 21, 1967) is an American country singer. She is known both for her commercial success and her marriage to fellow country star Tim McGraw. Hill has sold more than 40 million records worldwide and accumulated eight number-one singles and three number-one albums on the U.S. Country charts.

Hill has been honored by the Grammy Awards, the Academy of Country Music, the Country Music Association, the American Music Awards and the People's Choice Awards. Her Soul2Soul II Tour 2006 with McGraw became the highest-grossing country tour of all time. In 2001, she was named one of the "30 Most Powerful Women in America" by Ladies Home Journal. In 2008, Hill released her first Christmas album, titled Joy to the World. In 2009 Billboard named her as the #1 Adult Contemporary artist of the decade 2000-2009. Hill was ranked the 39th best artist of the 2000-10 decade by Billboard

    MARY J BLIGE - BE WITH YOU (2005)

Album: The Breakthrough (2005)

February 7th 2006 - my favorite #1 song for 95 days making it my #1 favorite daily song of 2006.

February 18th 2006 - my favorite #1 current song in  the top 40 for 19 straight weeks (5 months) making it my favorite #1 top 40 hit of 2006 as I developed the early period of a serious relationship with my future wife Valerie.  My son Nicholas Anakin was also born at this time on April 20th 2006.

"Be Without You" is an R&B song written by American singer-songwriter Mary J. Blige, Johnta Austin, Bryan Michael Cox, and Jason Perry for Blige's seventh studio album The Breakthrough. It was released as the album's lead single in late 2005. It was produced by Cox and released as the album's first official single. The song was nominated for Record of the Year and Song of the Year and won the Best R&B Song and Best Female R&B Vocal Performance categories at the 49th Annual Grammy Awards and was the most played song on radio in the year 2006. The single was certified double platinum by the RIAA in 2007. With 15 weeks at #1, and a 75 week span on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, it is the most successful R&B song in the 50 year history of that chart.

    KORN featuring SKRILLEX - NARCISSISTIC CANNIBAL (2011)

Album:  The Path Of Totality (2011)

One of the heaviest songs I have ever liked but I have been digging the minor but powerful "sound" of Korn for years now.

April 20th 2012 - my #1 favorite daily song at the age of 41 and on my son Nicholas' 6th birthday.

Narcissistic Cannibal" is a song from Korn's tenth studio album, The Path of Totality, released as the album's second single. The single was released to active rock and mainstream rock radio stations on October 18, followed by a digital release on October 24. It was released to alternative radio stations on November 8. It features Skrillex and Kill the Noise.

Narcissistic Cannibal" debuted at number forty-two on Billboard's Rock Songs chart for the issue date of November 5, 2011. It debuted at number thirty-four on Alternative Songs the following week  It hit #6 mainstream rock and #18 alternative rock. 

    JOHN LENNON - JEALOUS GUY (1971)

Album: Imagine (1971)

I first heard this song likely when I received John Lennon Collection for Xmas 1982 at age 11.  I may have first purchased the Imagine album in about 1983 at age 12.  I went through the entire album in 1987 to write out the guitar chords to play along with.

December 13th 1989 - my #4 favorite daily song for 1 day at age 18 in honor of Lennon's 9th anniversary of his death while I was living at the monastery in residence in Muenster, SK for 1st year University.

Jealous Guy" is a song written and performed by John Lennon which first appeared on his 1971 album Imagine. It is one of the most commonly covered Lennon songs, with at least ninety-two recorded cover versions, the most notable being Roxy Music's version, which reached number one in several countries three months after John Lennon's death.

The song's genesis came in India, after The Beatles attended a lecture by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi about a "son of the mother nature". This inspired both Paul McCartney and John Lennon to write songs about the same subject. McCartney's composition "Mother Nature's Son" was selected for The Beatles (The White Album), while Lennon's song "Child of Nature" was not. However, both were demoed at George Harrison's Esher home in May 1968. The demo featured Lennon's double-tracked vocal and playing an acoustic guitar. After that, Lennon continued to play it into the Get Back sessions. Eventually, the lyrics were scrapped and replaced by the now well known "Jealous Guy" lyrics for Imagine.

    KISS - LOVE GUN (1977)

Album: Love Gun (1977)
I do not remember when I first purchased this album but it would be 1985 or later.   I had bought Kiss bubblegum cards during original release in 1978 at age 7 but never knew what they sounded like at that time. I first heard what they actually sounded like in 1983 at age 12.  I spent a full year playing every Kiss album in order on a year long Kiss promotion during 1999/2000 at age 28.  

June 25th 1999 - my #3 favorite daily song for 108 days at age 28 while on the road with Marilyn now for almost 6 years and now 1 year selling on ebay.

Love Gun" is a song by the American hard rock band KISS released on their 1977 album of the same name. The B-side is the album track "Hooligan", a song written by drummer Peter Criss. "Love Gun" surprisingly failed to become a hit single, but the song became an instant staple of the Kiss live show and retained this place for years.

Sung by guitarist-vocalist Paul Stanley, he has claimed in several interviews since its release that it is one of his favorite KISS songs, even stating that ""Love Gun" is quintessential KISS and is probably one of the five signature essential [KISS] songs." Stanley has also said that "The Hunter" section of the Led Zeppelin song "How Many More Times" inspired the lyrics of "Love Gun". Stanley plays bass on the track in addition to his singing and guitar duties.

"Love Gun" has been played on every KISS tour since its release, and has made numerous appearances on KISS greatest hits and compilation albums despite the fact that it stalled at #55 on the U.S. singles chart

Love Gun is the sixth studio album by American hard rock band Kiss. Love Gun is notable for being the first Kiss album to feature a lead vocal performance from Ace Frehley. This marks the first album for the group to feature lead vocal performances from all four band members. It was also the last studio album to feature the entire original lineup of Kiss on every track, as drummer Peter Criss was replaced by session drummer Anton Fig for most of 1979's Dynasty  The album cover was painted by fantasy artist Ken Kelly, who previously did the cover for 1976's Destroyer.   Love Gun was certified platinum on June 30, 1977, two weeks after the album's release

    PAUL MCCARTNEY & WINGS - SOME PEOPLE NEVER KNOW (1971)

Album:  Wild Life (1971)

I got this album used and remember listening to it a lot in 1984 at age 13.  

August 30th 2011 - my #10 favorite daily song for 37 days at age 40 while living at Ave M South with Valerie now married 4 years and Nicholas is 5.

Wild Life is the debut album by Wings. Paul and Linda McCartney had worked with drummer Denny Seiwell on their prior album, Ram, and they added Denny Laine, the former leader of the Moody Blues, to that trio to become Wings.   With a fresh set of McCartney/McCartney tunes, in August 1971 the newly formed Wings recorded their debut in slightly more than a week, with the mindset that it had to be instant and raw in order to capture the freshness and vitality of a live studio recording. Five of the eight songs were recorded in one take. Paul McCartney would later cite the quick recording schedule of Bob Dylan as an inspiration for this.

The album was rehearsed at McCartney's recording studio in Scotland dubbed Rude Studio, which Paul and Linda had used to make demos of songs that would be used in albums from Wild Life to Driving Rain, and recorded at Abbey Road Studios with Tony Clarke engineering. Paul can be heard saying "Take it, Tony" at the beginning of "Mumbo".     On the promotional album, "The Complete Audio Guide To The Alan Parsons Project", Alan Parsons discusses how he did a rough mix of "I Am Your Singer" that Paul liked so much, he used it for the final mix on the album. Paul can be seen at Rude Studio in the 2001 documentary 'Wingspan'.   Paul handled all of the lead vocals, sharing those duties with Linda on "I Am Your Singer" and "Some People Never Know

    ACE FREHLEY - NEW YORK GROOVE (1979) hit #12
New York Groove" is a song written by Russ Ballard and first recorded by Hello in 1975 and later by Ace Frehley in 1978.

The British glam rock band Hello first recorded the song in 1975, for their debut album, Keeps Us Off the Streets.

The song was a top 10 hit in the UK, which was a sign of the band's importance in British glam rock. In Germany, the boys from London reached No.7 in February 1976, although their chart entry was four months before in October 1975. On the 6th of December, Hello played their smash hit "New York Groove" on Germany's popular TV show "Disco '75" at the end of the show. At the end of 1975, "New York Groove" was No.1 on the WDR2-Charts "Discothek im WDR" as well as on the "WDR2-Schlagerrallye".

Ace Frehley recorded the song for his solo album released in 1978. Frehley, like the other then-current members of Kiss, recorded and released a solo album. Released as a single, this song made it to No.13 on the American Billboard Hot 100 late that year, by far the highest charting single from any of the Kiss members' solo albums. "New York Groove" was performed on Kiss's tours of 1979 and 1980, and became a staple of Frehley's shows during his solo tours in the 1980s and 90s, and again during the Reunion Tour when he rejoined Kiss in 1996.

A live version of the song can be found on the Japanese version of the 1996 album You Wanted the Best, You Got the Best!! (and the U.S. vinyl version) recorded in Sydney, Australia in 1980 which would also make it one of the few live recordings released by the group to feature long time drummer Eric Carr. Ace Frehley once told Rolling Stone magazine that his unique take on the song was inspired by his experience with hookers in New York City's pre-Rudy Giuliani Times Square.

    TERRY HOKNES - IS IT COLD (2005) Opus #992 - written in 1995

As the new century began a new chapter in songwriting where the focus was more on recording polished songs but writing way less and very sporadic.    I had written 500 songs by the age of 19 and had hit 1000 songs by the age of 25.  But since then I can go over a year at a time without writing a song but really focusing in most cases on a more commercial type of polished song however I still venture into all possible genres.  I continue to play and sing every part on all my songs and recordings.

I hired Neil Meckelborg of Audio Art to record my songs in 2001.  We started out recording a full album at their location downtown behind the Bus depot but eventually worked on recordings at Neil's private studio.  In total we recorded 3 full albums of material of my songs and a full length album of songs I wrote with Marilyn Parney that I produced.  Neil and I also worked on a Trooper hit song karaoke CD in 2001.  I spent 18 months recording with Neil and over 40 songs and over $10,000.00 in studio bills I paid at that time to record the best quality audio ever on my songs.  Neil had used Sonar Cakewalk so I learned how to use it and have used that now for a decade in my own studio.

    CROSBY STILLS NASH & YOUNG - DON'T SAY GOODBYE (1988)

Album:  American Dream (1988)

January 21st 1989 - my #3 favorite daily song for 3 days.  It was one of the first CD's I ever got on Xmas 1988 at age 17.

September 14th 1990 - my #2 favorite daily song for 6 days as I started to check into their other older albums for the first time at age 19 while in 2nd year University.

August 1st 2003 - my #4 favorite daily song for 19 days at age 32 the month I saw CSN in concert for the 2nd time. 

American Dream is the 1988 reunion album for Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.

Released on November 3, 1988, there was great anticipation for the quartet's first studio album in eighteen years, but all four performers were at various ebbs in their songwriting. The harmonies still sounded intact, but critics found the songs too placid and trite. The title song, written by Neil Young, was a satire of sensational political scandals involving Oliver North, former presidential candidate Gary Hart, and televangelist Jimmy Swaggart. Other songs included "Got It Made," written by Stephen Stills with help from Young, addressed CSNY's earlier fans expressing happiness that they were secure and comfortable in their personal lives yet simultaneously urging them to remember their earlier idealism. It also included "Compass," David Crosby's lament on how much time he had wasted on drugs.

    5TH DIMENSION - LOVIN' STEW (1968)

Album: Stoned Soul Picnic (1968)

One of my favorites from this group - odd minor melodic lines and an amazing catchy chorus.

May 26th 1989 - my #4 favorite daily song for 5 days at age 18

January 26th 2010 - my #10 favorite song for 19 days at age 39. 

July 3rd 2012 - my #7 favorite daily song - 3rd time in the top 10.

Stoned Soul Picnic is the third album by American pop group The 5th Dimension, released in 1968. Early versions of the album had a lyric sheet inserted in the sleeve

The 5th Dimension is an American popular music vocal group, whose repertoire also includes pop, R&B, soul, and jazz.

Originally known as The Hi-Fi's, the group changed its name to The 5th Dimension in late 1966 and was best-known during the late 1960s and early 1970s for popularizing the hits "Up, Up and Away", "Stoned Soul Picnic", "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In", "Wedding Bell Blues", "One Less Bell to Answer", "(Last Night) I Didn't Get to Sleep at All", and The Magic Garden LP.

The five original members were Billy Davis, Jr., Florence LaRue, Marilyn McCoo, Lamonte McLemore, and Ron Townson. They have recorded for several different labels over their long careers. Their first work appeared on the Soul City label, which was started by Imperial Records/United Artists Records recording artist Johnny Rivers. The group would later record for Bell/Arista Records, ABC Records, and Motown Records

 
    THE CARPENTERS - MR. GUDER (1970)

Album:  Close To You (1970)

May 22nd 1990 - my #1 favorite daily song for 7 days at age 19 living in grandmas basement on the big brown couch and listening to this 45 rpm.  Such a unique pop/jazz song with great harmonies

Close to You was the second album by the Carpenters, released in August 1970. In 2003, the album was ranked number 175 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. The album contains the hit singles "(They Long to Be) Close to You" and "We've Only Just Begun." "(They Long to Be) Close to You" was the duo's first big hit that gained the Carpenters international reputation for a decade. The album topped the Canadian Charts and peaked at #2 in the U.S. Billboard Albums Charts. It was also successful in the United Kingdom, entering top-50 of the official chart for 76 weeks during the first half of 1970s.

"Mr. Guder" was dedicated to Richard Carpenter and John Bettis's boss at Disneyland, Vic Guder. It was a bit of a last tease to the man who fired the duo. They were hired to play old-time music on piano and banjo at the park's "Coke Corner" on Main Street U.S.A., but they persisted in playing contemporary tunes that the patrons requested. The lyrics say:

You're everything a robot lives for: walk in at nine and roll out the door at five. You reflect the company image; you maintain their rules to live by. Shine your shoes, let's keep a neat haircut now that you're wearing a coat and tie.

Many of their later recordings that were composed in the late 1960s were written during their Disneyland career.

    FAITH HILL - THERE YOU'LL BE (2001) hit #10
There You'll Be" is a song by Faith Hill, which became a hit single in 2001. Written by Diane Warren it was featured on the Pearl Harbor soundtrack. The song was also featured on Hill's greatest hits albums There You'll Be and The Hits.

"There You'll Be" was first offered to Celine Dion, who reportedly turned it down. The song's music video was directed by Michael Bay, who also directed Pearl Harbor. The video was set in the same time period as the film, and drew many parallels. A cover of this song appears in Dance Dance Revolution Extreme.

Released in May 2001, "There You'll Be" reached a peak of #10 on the Billboard Hot 100 in July 2001 due to strong airplay. No commercial CD single was released because producers wanted to boost sales of the Pearl Harbor soundtrack, which forced the song to chart solely on airplay in the United States. The song also reached #11 on the Billboard Country Singles Chart. The song was a big hit on the Adult Contemporary chart, staying at number one for 12 non consecutive weeks. It was also popular in Canada, as it topped the singles chart in August 2001.

It is by far Faith Hill's biggest hit single in the UK to date, debuting and peaking at #3 on the UK Singles Chart in June 2001 and spent 15 weeks inside the Top 75. On September 20, 2008 a contestant called Amy Connelly sang the song in her auditions of The X Factor. Her performance was so moving it reduced the judges to tears and the viewing public liked it so much that it renewed interest in the original Faith Hill rendition of the song and the track re-entered the UK Singles Chart at #10 the very next week based purely on downloads, which gave the song an extra 4 weeks inside the Top 75 giving the song a total of 19 weeks.

It was nominated for a 2002 Grammy for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, but losing out to "I'm Like a Bird" from singer Nelly Furtado. The song also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song, but also lost to "If I Didn't Have You" from Disney/Pixar's Monsters, Inc.