Don't Leave Me This Way
Thelma Houston
Um-hm-hm... aah ah ah...
Don't leave me this way
I can't survive, can't stay alive
Without your love, oh baby
Don't leave me this way, no
I can't exist, I'll surely miss your tender kiss
Don't leave me this way
(A broken man with empty hands
Oh baby please, don't leave me this way)
Aaah baby, my heart is full of love and desire for you
Now come on down and do what you gotta do
(Now come on girl and do what you gotta do)
You started this fire down in my soul
Now can't you see it's burning out of control
Come on (now) satisfy the need in me
Only your good lovin' can set me free... hey
Don't, don't you leave me this way, no
Don't you understand I'm at your command
Oh baby please, please don't leave me this way
Aaah baby, my heart is full of love and desire for you
Now come on down and do what you gotta do
(Now come on girl and do what you gotta do)
You started this fire down in my soul
Now can't you see it's burning out of control
Come on (now) satisfy the need in me
Only your good lovin' can set me free... hey
Need your lovin' baby, need need your love right now...
Your love is so important to me... got to have it...
('Cause it would be wrong
To string me along a love so true)
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Don't Leave Me This Way
First charting as a hit for Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, an act on Gamble & Huff's Philadelphia International label in 1975, "Don't Leave Me This Way" was later a hit single for both Thelma Houston and again for The Communards.
The Blue Notes' original version of the song, featuring Teddy Pendergrass' lead vocal, was included as an album track on the group's successful Wake Up Everybody LP. Though not issued as a single in the United States, the Blue Notes' recording reached #3 on the Billboard Disco charts and later reached #5 on the UK singles chart. "Don't Leave Me This Way" was covered by Motown artist Thelma Houston in 1977. Her version, with its more overt disco arrangement, was a massive international hit, topping the Billboard Hot 100 chart for a single week in April 1977. The song peaked at #13 in the UK. The song is considered by many to be not only one of the Greatest Disco songs of all time but one of the Greatest Songs of the entire 1970's as well.
Nine years later, the song was revived by The Communards in an avowedly Hi-NRG version. This recording topped the UK charts for four weeks in September 1986, becoming the biggest selling record of the year in the process. The featured guest vocalist was jazz singer Sarah Jane Morris. The song only reached #40 on the Billboard Hot 100 but did top the Billboard Dance chart.
Houston's version was revived in 1995 in a remix, which reached #19 on the Billboard Dance Chart and #35 in the UK.
The song has been recorded by several other artists including Sheena Easton, José Galisteo, Andy Abraham, and The Temptations, amongst others.
The Thelma Houston cover of "Don't Leave Me This Way" was ranked #87 on VH1's "100 Greatest One-hit Wonders".
The Blue Notes' original version of the song, featuring Teddy Pendergrass' lead vocal, was included as an album track on the group's successful Wake Up Everybody LP. Though not issued as a single in the United States, the Blue Notes' recording reached #3 on the Billboard Disco charts and later reached #5 on the UK singles chart. "Don't Leave Me This Way" was covered by Motown artist Thelma Houston in 1977. Her version, with its more overt disco arrangement, was a massive international hit, topping the Billboard Hot 100 chart for a single week in April 1977. The song peaked at #13 in the UK. The song is considered by many to be not only one of the Greatest Disco songs of all time but one of the Greatest Songs of the entire 1970's as well.
Nine years later, the song was revived by The Communards in an avowedly Hi-NRG version. This recording topped the UK charts for four weeks in September 1986, becoming the biggest selling record of the year in the process. The featured guest vocalist was jazz singer Sarah Jane Morris. The song only reached #40 on the Billboard Hot 100 but did top the Billboard Dance chart.
Houston's version was revived in 1995 in a remix, which reached #19 on the Billboard Dance Chart and #35 in the UK.
The song has been recorded by several other artists including Sheena Easton, José Galisteo, Andy Abraham, and The Temptations, amongst others.
The Thelma Houston cover of "Don't Leave Me This Way" was ranked #87 on VH1's "100 Greatest One-hit Wonders".
You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
"You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" is a song recorded by British singer Dusty Springfield. It is an English version of an Italian song called "Io che non vivo (senza te)" written by Pino Donaggio and Vito Pallavicini. Springfield heard it at the Sanremo Festival in 1965 where it was performed by Donaggio himself and his team partner Jody Miller, and she presented it to Vicki Wickham and Simon Napier-Bell, who wrote the English lyrics for the song. Released in early 1966, the single release of Springfield's recording became a huge hit and remains one of the songs most identified with her. The song hit #1 in Britain, the only #1 of Springfield's career there, and #4 in the USA. The song proved so popular in the USA that Springfield's 1965 album Ev'rything's Coming Up Dusty was released there with a slightly different track listing, and titled after the hit single.
Ramiele Malubay
Ramiele Malubay (74854) is a 20-year-old from Miramar, Florida who auditioned in Miami. Born in Saudi Arabia, she is the only Asian American to make it the semi-finals in this season. She is also a Filipino American and her favorite singer is Regine Velasquez.
Her songs:
"You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" (Dusty Springfield)
"Don't Leave Me This Way" (Thelma Houston)
Her songs:
"You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" (Dusty Springfield)
"Don't Leave Me This Way" (Thelma Houston)
American Idol Season 7
The seventh season of American Idol, which premiered on January 15, 2008, is the current season of the annual popular reality show and singing competition. Ryan Seacrest continues to host the show with Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul and Randy Jackson returning as judges. The successful program continues to search for and discover the best young singer in the country, through a series of nationwide auditions along with weekly rounds of intense competition and eliminations airing live, based on public voting by phone during the results shows typically airing on Thursdays.
Thursday, February 7, 2008
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