ALBERTA HUNTER ALEXIS KORNER AMERICAN PIE AMSTERDAM ANNE MURRAY ANSWER SONG ANTHONY QUINN ARE YOU LONESOME TONIGHT? BADFINGER BARBRA STREISAND BESSIE SMITH BETTE MIDLER BOBBY VEE BOBBY VINTON BOSSA NOVA BRENDA LEE BUDDY HOLLY CARLOS SANTANA CAROL KAYE CAROL KIDD CATERINA VALENTE CHARLES AZNAVOUR CHARLES BROWN CHET ATKINS CILLA BLACK CLASSIC & HYMN CLASSIC & REMADE CONCH REPUBLIC 海螺共和國 CONNIE FRANCIS COVER SONG UNCOVERED DAVE BRUBECK-TAKE FIVE DELTA BLUES【美國南音】 DICKEY LEE DINAH SHORE DIRE STRAITS DOC POMUS EAST MEETS WEST【東西滙】 ÉDITH PIAF ELIZABETH COTTEN ELVIS PRESLEY ENGLAND BALLAD【英國南音】 ERIC CLAPTON EVERLY BROTHERS FADO-PORTUGAL【葡國南音】 FATHER'S DAY FIFA WORLD CUP 世界盃 FREDDY FENDER GLOOMY SUNDAY GREATEST COVER SONG HANK WILLIAMS HARRY BELAFONTE IN MUSIC HISTORY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY JANIS IAN JANIS JOPLIN JIMMY SCOTT JOAN BAEZ JOE HILL JOHN LENNON JOHN MAYALL JOHNNY ACE JOSÉ MARI CHAN 曾煥福 JULIE GOLD KAREN CARPENTER KYU SAKAMOTO 坂本 九 LA GOLONDRINA LAURA FYGI LESLEY GORE LINDA RONSTADT LINDA SCOTT LITTLE PEGGY MARCH LOS INDIOS TABAJARAS MALVINA REYNOLDS MARIAM MAKEBA MARIANNE FAITHFULL MARK DINNING MARNI NIXON MARY(Ka'aihue)KAYE MATT MONRO MICHAEL JACKSON MILITARY HYMN MINNIE RIPERTON MONEY STORY & SONG MOTHER'S DAY MOVIE & SONG MUSICALS NANA MOUSKOURI NATIONAL ANTHEMS NOKIA TUNE ODETTA ORIGINAL & REMADE OTIS REDDING PARODY【戲仿】 PATTI PAGE PERRY COMO PETE SEEGER PHIL OCHS PHIL SPECTOR PINK FLOYD PLAYING FOR CHANGE PSYCHEDELIC ROCK RANDY CRAWFORD RAY CHARLES RESPONSE SONG RICKY NELSON RITA COOLIDGE RITCHIE VALENS ROCKABILLY ROD McKUEN SAM COOKE SCARBOROUGH FAIR SHIRLEY COLLINS SIMON & GARFUNKEL SINÉAD O'CONNOR SOFIA KÄLLGREN THE BEATLES THE G-CLEFS THE MONKEES THE PLATTERS THE STORY THE WALL【迷牆】 TIANANMEN SQUARE 8964【天安門】 TORCH SONG TRADITIONAL & REMADE U.S.BILLBOARD CHART VALENTINE'S DAY VERA LYNN VIOLA SMITH VIRGINIA LEE VOICE CROSSING 交織叠聲 WEDDING SONG WOODSTOCK '69 WORLD CARNIVAL【環球嘉年華】 YELLOW RIBBON【黄絲帶】 中詞西曲 中詞西曲目錄 A-Z 何國禧 周璇 地水南音 姚莉 張露 李叔同 李香蘭 - 山口淑子 李麗蓮 潘秀瓊 舒雲 蘇馬大 MARTHA SOO 郎毓秀 關正傑

March 27, 2013

AMERICAN PIE - 9/2 : Intro





1959年二月三日
美國中西部 Iowa 愛荷華州 Clear Lake 附近的晚上, 一架小型飛機在暴風雪中起飛不久, 失事墜毁, 機上除駕駛員, 還有三位 Rock n' Roll 搖滾樂壇的青年樂手同告罹難 . . . .


WE BELONG TOGETHER
Buddy Holly, Jiles Perry Richardson, Richie Valens
Quoted:
" Watch the most shocking footage of the late 50's
when the world best rock stars died in a plane crash."

BUDDY HOLLY . . .
一位五十年代的美國流行音樂歌手, 在這次墜機意外離世, 對歐美流行曲樂壇的影响, 令一首經典作品, 成為近四十年來最被受談論的歌曲之一 . . .



AMERICAN PIE - Don McLean 1972 Live


VERSE 6:1
 A long long time ago
 I can still remember how
 That music used to make me smile
 And I knew if I had my chance
 That I could make those people dance
 And maybe they'd be happy for a while
 But February made me shiver
 With every paper I'd deliver
 Bad news on the doorstep
 I couldn't take one more step
 I can't remember if I cried
 When I read about his widowed bride
 But something touched me deep inside
 **The day the music died**
 So

 [Chorus]
 Bye, bye Miss American Pie
 Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry
 Them good ole boys were drinking whiskey in Rye
 Singin' this'll be the day that I die
 This'll be the day that I die


VERSE 6:2
 Did you write the book of love
 And do you have faith in God above
 If the Bible tells you so?
 Now do you believe in rock and roll?
 Can music save your mortal soul?
 And can you teach me how to dance real slow?
 Well, I know that you're in love with him
 Cause I saw you dancin' in the gym
 You both kicked off your shoes
 Man, I dig those rhythm and blues
 I was a lonely teenage broncin' buck
 With a pink carnation and a pickup truck
 But I knew I was out of luck
 The day the music died
 I started singin'

[Chorus]

VERSE 6:3
Now, for ten years we've been on our own
And moss grows fat on a rolling stone
But, that's not how it used to be
When the jester sang for the king and queen
In a coat he borrowed from James Dean
And a voice that came from you and me
Oh and while the king was looking down
The jester stole his thorny crown
The courtroom was adjourned
No verdict was returned
And while Lenin read a book on Marx
The quartet practiced in the park
And we sang dirges in the dark
The day the music died
We were singin'

 [Chorus]


VERSE 6:4

 Helter skelter in a summer swelter
 The birds flew off with a fallout shelter
 Eight miles high and falling fast
 It landed foul on the grass
 The players tried for a forward pass
 With the jester on the sidelines in a cast
 Now the half-time air was sweet perfume
 While sergeants played a marching tune
 We all got up to dance
 Oh, but we never got the chance
 Cause the players tried to take the field
 The marching band refused to yield
 Do you recall what was revealed
 The day the music died?
 We started singin'

 [Chorus]


VERSE 6:5

 Oh, and there we were all in one place
 A generation lost in space
 With no time left to start again
 So come on Jack be nimble, Jack be quick
 Jack Flash sat on a candlestick
 Cause fire is the devil's only friend
 And as I watched him on the stage
 My hands were clenched in fists of rage
 No angel born in Hell
 Could break that Satan's spell
 And as the flames climbed high into the night
 To light the sacrificial rite
 I saw Satan laughing with delight
 The day the music died
 He was singin'

 [Chorus]

VERSE 6:6

 I met a girl who sang the blues
 And I asked her for some happy news
 But she just smiled and turned away
 I went down to the sacred store
 Where I'd heard the music years before
 But the man there said the music wouldn't play
 And in the streets the children screamed
 The lovers cried, and the poets dreamed
 But not a word was spoken
 The church bells all were broken
 And the three men I admire most
 the Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost
 They caught the last train for the coast
 The day the music died
 And they were singing