1539 – Elton John – I feel like a bullet (in the gun of Robert Ford) (1975)

 

Escrita por Elton John e Bernie Taupin, foi gravada em junho e julho de 1975 e lançada em 4 de outubro de 1975 no disco Rock of the westies. Sairia em compacto em 12 de janeiro de 1976 com Grow some funk of your own como duplo Lado A. Chegou ao número 14 no Billboard Hot100. A canção compara o assassinato de Jesse James, por seu companheiro de crimes Robert Ford, com o fracasso do casamento de Taupin com sua primeira esposa, Maxine Feibelman. Ela era a moça da canção Tiny dancer.

A letra:

Like a corn in a field, I cut you down
I threw the last punch too hard
After years of going steady, well, I thought that it was time
To throw in my hand for a new set of cards

And I can't take you dancing out on the weekend
I figured we'd painted too much of this town
And I tried not to look as I walked to my wagon
And I knew then, I had lost what should have been found
You know that, I knew then I had lost what should have been found

And I feel like a bullet in the gun of Robert Ford
I'm low as a paid assassin is
You know I'm cold as a hired sword
I'm so ashamed, can't we patch it up?

You know, I can't think straight no more
You make me feel like a bullet, honey, in the gun
In the gun of Robert Ford

Like a child when his toys have been stepped on
That's how it all seemed to me
I burst the bubble that both of us lived in
And I'm damned if I'll ever get rid of this guilt that I feel

And if looks could kill then I'd be a dead man
Your friends and mine don't call no more
Hell, I thought it was best but now I feel branded
Breaking up's sometimes like breaking the law
Breaking up's sometimes like breaking the law

And I feel like a bullet in the gun of Robert Ford
I'm low as a paid assassin is
You know I'm cold as a hired sword
I'm so ashamed, can't we patch it up?

You know that I can't think straight no more
You make me feel like a bullet, honey, in the gun
In the gun of Robert Ford

And I feel like a bullet in the gun of Robert Ford
I'm low as a paid assassin is
You know I'm cold as a hired sword
I'm so ashamed, can't we patch it up?

Yeah, you know that I can't think straight no more
You make me feel like a bullet, honey, in the gun
In the gun of Robert Ford

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1538 – Elvis Presley – Pieces of my life (1975)

Escrita por Troy Seals, foi gravada por Elvis em 12 de março de 1975 em Hollywood, California e foi lançada em 7 de maio de 1975 no disco Today. Sairis depois em compacto, com Bringing it back como Lado A. Inicialmente foi lançada por Charlie Rich e lançada em 1974 por ele. A versão de Elvis, no entanto, chegou ao número 33 no chart Billboard Country. Tem três guitarristas: James Burton, Jon Wilkinson e Charlie Hodge. Duke Bardwell tocou baixo. Ronnie Tutt na bateria. Glen D Hardin e Tony Brown tocaram piano. David Briggs e Greg Gordon no clavinet. Mais tarde, fizeram uma mixagem e fizeram overdub em quase todos os instrumentos. Adicionaram mais duas guitarras com Johnny Christopher e Chip Young. Norbert Putnam e Mike Leech colocaram mais baixos. Richard F. Morris tocou percussão. Charles Rose tocou sa, Harvey Thompson tocou trombone, Harrison Calloway tocou trumpete, Ronald Eades tocou sax barítono junior e The Holladays colocaram vozes. Por coincidencia, Brian Wilson estava gravando a canção Why do fools fall in love na sala ao lado. Quando soube que Elvis estava ao lado, foi lá e convidou Elvis pra ouvir. Elvis foi e ouviu. Elvis não sabia que ele era Brian Wilson dos Beach Boys. Brian perguntou se Elvis tinha gostado e Elvis disse que não. Brian então fingiu que iria dar uns golpes de karatê em Elvis e Elvis foi embora sem dar importancia.

A letra:

A water glass full of whiskey
And women that I never knew too well
Lord, the things I've seen and done
Most of which I'd be ashamed to tell

I don't know how it started
But that's what makes a man a man, I guess
Now I'm holdin' on to nothing'
Tryin' to forget the rest

I'm lookin' back on my life
To see if I can find the pieces
I know that some were stolen
And some just blew away
Well, I found the bad parts
Found all the sad parts
But I guess I threw the best part away

Lord, the pieces of my life,
They're everywhere, they're everywhere
And the one I think I miss most of all
Is you and you know who

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1537 – Bob Dylan – If you see her say hello (1975)

 

Escrita por Bob Dylan, foi gravada em dezembro de 1974 no Sound 80 Studios, em Minneapolis, Minnesota e lançada em 20 de janeiro de 1975 no disco Blood on the tracks. Kevin Odegard tocou guitarra, Chris Weber tocou guitarra, Gregg Inhofer tocou teclado, Billy Peterson tocou baixo e Bill Berg tocou bateria. Dylan cantou, tocou violão e gaita. Foi regravada por Jeff Buckley e por Renato Russo, entre outros.

A letra:

If you see her, say hello
She might be in Tangier
She left here last early spring
Is livin' there, I hear

Say for me that I'm all right
Though things get kind of slow
She might think that I've forgotten her
Don't tell her it isn't so

We had a falling-out
Like lovers often will
And to think of how she left that night
It still brings me a chill

And though our separation
It pierced me to the heart
She still lives inside of me
We've never been apart

If you get close to her
Kiss her once for me
Always have respected her
For doin' what she did and gettin' free

Oh, whatever makes her happy
I won't stand in the way
Though the bitter taste still lingers on
From the night I tried to make her stay

I see a lot of people
As I make the rounds
And I hear her name here and there
As I go from town to town

And I've never gotten used to it
I've just learned to turn it off
Either I'm too sensitive
Or else I'm gettin' soft

Sundown, yellow moon
I replay the past
I know every scene by heart
They all went by so fast

If she's passin' back this way
I'm not that hard to find
Tell her she can look me up
If she's got the time

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1536 – Chris de Burgh – A spaceman came travelling (1975)

 

Escrita por Chris de Burgh, foi lançada no segundo disco de Chris de Burgh, chamado Spanish train and other stories, em 1 de novembro de 1975. Se transformou em uma canção popular de Natal. Quando lançada em compacto, em 1976, chegou ao número 1 na Irlanda e n;umero 22 no Canadá. De Burgh estava quebrado e morando de favor quando leu o livro Chariots of the Gods, de Erich von Daniken. O livro fez que ele pensasse “E se a estrela de Belém fosse uma nave espacial e se tivesse uma força benigna ou entidade no universo, que mantem um olho no mundo e nas coisas bobas que fazemos?” De Burgh era fã do poeta irlandês William Butler Yeats, que escreveu o livro The Second Coming, dizia que a cada 2000 anos, ocorria um novo cataclisma no mundo. Ele viu o nascimento de Cristo como um evento, e que no ano 2000 algo grandioso similar iria acontecer. Ele imaginou a cena do nascimento, uma coisa por cima, os pastores nos campo, uma musica éterea. O som do espaço é feito por um string synthesizer.

A letra:

A spaceman came traveling on his ship from afar
'Twas light years of time since his mission did start
And over a village, he halted his craft
And it hung in the sky like a star, just like a star

He followed a light and came down to a shed
Where a mother and child were lying there on a bed
A bright light of silver shone round his head
And he had the face of an angel and they were afraid

Then the stranger spoke, he said, do not fear
I come from a planet a long way from here
And I bring a message for mankind to hear
And suddenly the sweetest music filled the air

And it went la la la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la, la la la la la la la la la
Peace and goodwill to all men and love for the child
La la la la la la la la la, la la la la la la la, la la la la la la la la la, oh

This lovely music went trembling through the ground
And many were awakened on hearing that sound
And travelers on the road
The village they found by the light of that ship in the sky
Which shone all around

And just before dawn at the paling of the sky
The stranger returned and said, now I must fly
When two thousand years of your time has gone by
This song will begin once again to a baby's cry

And it went la la la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la, la la la la la la la la la
This song will begin once again to a baby's cry
And it goes la la la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la, la la la la la la la la la
Peace and goodwill to all men and love for the child

Oh the whole world is waiting, waiting to hear the song again (la la la la la la la la la)
There are thousands standing on the edge of the world (la la la la la la la la la)
And a star is moving somewhere, the time is nearly here (la la la la la la la la la)
This song will begin once again to a baby's cry

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1535 – Joan Baez – Diamonds and rust (1975)

 

Escrita por Joan Baez, foi gravada em janeiro de 1975 e lançada em julho de 1975, no disco de mesmo nome. Ela fala de uma ligação inesperada que recebeu de Bob Dylan, que a remete à dez anos antes, para um hotel no Greenwich Village, em torno de 1964 ou 1965. Ela lembra que deu a ele um par de abotoaduras de camisa. Chegou ao número 35 do Billboard Hot100. Foi regravada pelo Judas Priest, entre outros artistas.

A letra:

Well I'll be damned
Here comes your ghost again
But that's not unusual
It's just that the moon is full
And you happened to call

And here I sit, hand on the telephone
Hearing a voice I'd known
A couple of light years ago
Heading straight for a fall

As I remember your eyes
Were bluer than robin's eggs
"My poetry was lousy, " you said
Where are you calling from?
A booth in the Midwest

Ten years ago
I bought you some cuff links
You brought me something
We both know what memories can bring
They bring diamonds and rust

Well you burst on the scene
Already a legend
The unwashed phenomenon
The original vagabond
You strayed into my arms

And there you stayed
Temporarily lost at sea
The Madonna was yours for free
Yes the girl on the half-shell
Could keep you unharmed

Now I see you standing
With brown leaves falling around
And snow in your hair
Now you're smiling out the window
Of that crummy hotel over Washington Square

Our breath comes out white clouds
Mingles and hangs in the air
Speaking strictly for me
We both could have died then and there

Now you're telling me
You're not nostalgic
Then give me another word for it
You, who are so good with words
And at keeping things vague

'Cause I need some of that vagueness now
It's all come back too clearly
Yes I loved you dearly
And if you're offering me diamonds and rust
I've alredy paid

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1534 – Bob Seger – Fine memory (1975)

 

Escrita por Bob Seger, foi lançada em abril de 1975 no disco Beautiful loser. Bo b Seger cantou e tocou violão. Barry Beckett tocou grand piano, orgao, sintetizador e piano elétrico. Pete Carr tocou guitarra solo e violão. Roger Hawkins tocou bateria e percussão. David Hood tocou baixo. Jimmy Johnson tocou guitarra base. Spooner Oldham tocou orgao e piano elétrico.

A letra:

Last night I saw you walking
Past my bed late at night
And the moon shone
Through your gown
Such a fine memory
I think I'm gonna take it with me

And later as you were sleeping
Sleeping close to me
I felt your hair on my skin
Such a fine memory
I know I'm gonna take it with me

I'm going to take it
Far as I go
I'm gonna take it far as I go

And later as I was driving
The sky was getting light
And the sun came through the trees
I had a fine memory
Such a fine memory

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1533 – Eric Clapton – Don't blame me (1975)

Escrita por Eric Clapton e George Terry, foi gravada em no final de 1974 e começo de 1975. Foi lançada em março de 1975, no disco There's one in every crowd. Eric Clapton cantou, tocou guitarra, violão e dobro. Dick Sims tocou orgão Hammond, piano acústico e Fender Rhodes. Albhy Galuten tocou sintetizadores. George Terry tocou guitarra, violão e fez backing vocals. Carl Radle tocou gitarra e baixo. Jamie Oldaker tocou bateria e percussão. Yvonne Elliman e Marcy Levy fizeram backing vocal.

A letra:

Hear my story and listen well;
Truth is in all that I tell.
It could never have been me.
I did not shoot no deputy.

Mr. Grant, the deputy,
Friend to my whole family.
He always tell me when John Brown
Was getting ready to come around.

Don't blame me.
Don't blame me.

I hide it all except a few seeds
And make him think I plant for me.
When Mr. Grant and I know all the while
We've got enough for the whole island.

Three years now we sell it in town
Under the bucket that goes down.
No one knew of it but three:
Mr. Grant, Davis and me.

Don't blame me.
Don't blame me.

I swear by God it is a plot;
Davis sent me here to rot.
Listen people, can't you see
Mr. Davis shot the deputy.

Don't blame me.
Don't blame me.

Don't blame me.
Don't blame me.

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1532 – Eagles – One of these nights (1975)

Escrita por Don Henley e Glenn Frey, foi gravada entre 1974 e 1975 e lançada em 19 de maio de 1975 no compacto com Visions no Lado B. Saiiria também no disco de mesmo nome, em 10 de junho de 1975. Seria o quarto disco da banda. Chegou ao número 1 dos charts Billboard Hot 100. Henley é o vocalista dos versos e Randy Meisner canta as harmonias mais altas no refrão. Don Felder faz o solo de guitarra. Foi inspirada nos Spinners e Al Green. Frey disse que nessa canção houve uma melhoria radical em termos de composição da dupla. Ele disse que é a gravação preferida dele dos Eagles. Ele disse que se tivesse que pegar uma só, não seria Hotel California ou Take it easy, seria One of these nights. Ele disse que fala algo como se alguém colocasse sempre as coisas pra depois. Uma hora vou fazer isso, uma hora vou comprar um carro, uma hora vou emagrecer. Don Henley cantou e tocou bateria. Glenn Frey tocou piano e fez backing vocals. Don Felder tocou guitarra solo e guitarra base. Randy Meisner tocou baixo e fe backing vocals. Bernie Leadon tocou guitarra base e fez backing vocals. Além de número 1 no Billboard Hot100, chegou ao número 5 na Holanda e Nova Zelandia, número 8 na Bélgica, número 13 no Canadá, número 23 no Reino Unido e número 33 na Austrália.

A letra:

One of these nights
One of these crazy old nights
We're gonna find out
Pretty mama
What turns on your lights
The full moon is calling
The fever is high
And the wicked wind whispers
And moans

You got your demons
And you got desires
Well, I got a few of my own

Oh, someone to be kind to in
Between the dark and the light
Oh, coming right behind you
Swear I'm gonna find you
One of these nights

One of these dreams
One of these lost and lonely dreams now
We're gonna find one
One that really screams

I've been searching for the daughter
Of the devil himself
I've been searching for an angel in white
I've been waiting for a woman who's a little
Of both
And I can feel her but she's nowhere
In sight

Oh, loneliness will blind you
In between the wrong and the right
Oh, coming right behind you
Swear I'm gonna find you
One of these nights

One of these nights
In between the dark and the light
Coming right behind you
Swear I'm gonna find you
Get ya baby one of these nights

One of these nights
One of these nights

I can feel it
I can feel it
One of these nights
Coming right behind you
Swear I'm gonna find you now
One of these nights

And it gets so dark, so dark
In the cold and lonely
One of these nights
One of these crazy, crazy, crazy nights
One of these nights
Swear I'm gonna find you
Coming right behind you now
One of these nights
Ooh ooh

One of these nights
Ah and I wanna say ah!
One of these nights
Yes ah one of these one of these
One of these nights
Ah coming right behind you
Swear I'm gonna find you
One of these nights
One of these nights
One of these crazy old nights
One of these nights

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1531 – Bob Dylan – You're a big girl now (1975)

Escrita por Bob Dylan, foi gravada em 27 de dezembro de 1974, no Sound 80 Studio, em Minneapolis, Minnesota. Foi lançada em janeiro de 1975, no disco Blood on the tracks. Fala da história de dois amantes que estão se separando. Na verdade, a maioria do disco foi sobre separação. Nessa canção, ele pede outra chance. Não teve baixista na gravação. Dylan canta, toca violão e gaita. Kevin Odegaard e Chris Weber tocan guitarras. Greg Inhofer toca piano e Billy Berg toca bateria. Rolling Stone magazine disse que era a canção 91 da lista das 100 greatest Bob Dylan songs. A frase “Love is so simple, to quote a phrase”, vem do filme Children of Paradise, de Marcel Carné. O filme foi apresentado à Dylan pelo seu professor de pintura, Norman Raeben.

A letra:

Our conversation was short and sweet
It nearly swept me off my feet
And I'm back in the rain, oh
And you are on dry land
You made it there somehow
You're a big girl now

Bird on the horizon, sittin' on a fence
He's singin' his song for me at his own expense
And I'm just like that bird, oh
Singin' just for you
I hope that you can hear
Hear me singin' through these tears

Time is a jet plane, it moves too fast
Oh, but what a shame if all we've shared can't last
I can change, I swear, oh
See what you can do
I can make it through
You can make it, too

Love is so simple, to quote a phrase
You've known it all the time, I'm learnin' it these days
Oh, I know where I can find you, oh
In somebody's room
It's a price I have to pay
You're a big girl all the way

A change in the weather is known to be extreme
But what's the sense of changing horses in midstream?
I'm going out of my mind, oh
With a pain that stops and starts
Like a corkscrew to my heart
Ever since we've been apart

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1530 – The Allman Brothers – Win, lose or draw (1975)

 

Escrita por Gregg Allman, foi gravada entre fevereiro e julho de 1975 e lançada no disco de mesmo nome, o quinto da banda, em 22 de agosto de 1975. Gregg Allman cantou, tocou orgão Hammond, clavinet e violão. Richard Betts tocou guitarra, slide guitar e violão. Jaimoe tocou bateria e percussão. Chuck Leavell tocou piano, piano eletrico Fender Rhodes, Moog Synthesizer, clavinet e fez backing vocals. Lamar Williams tocou baixo.

A letra:

Endlessly facing the cold concrete floor
Four cold grey walls, and no doors
I barely remember the last forty days
Or just what they're holdin' me for

So far away, they tell me
Boy, you're here to stay
Win, lose or draw

Letters unanswered and visits so few
Cold desperation I know
I guess I'd give most anything
Oh lord, if they would just let me go

I'm so far away
Day after lonely, lonely day
Win, lose or draw

Ma, she's dead and gone
Pa just don't seem to find the time
It makes me so sad that he's forsaken me
He's all I have left I call mine

I'm so far away
Day after lonely, lonely day
Win, lose or draw

There's two men in one room for ten long years
Still strangers that talk away the time
'Cause each time I think of your soft hand in mine
I lay here and die one more time

And I'm so far away
Day after lonely, lonely day
Win, lose or draw

If I'm far away
You know, chances
You gotta lose
You gonna lose

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1529 – Led Zeppelin – Down by the seaside (1975)

Escrita por Jimmy Page e Robert Plant, foi gravada em 1971 no Island Studios, em Londres, e seria utilizada pro Led Zeppelin IV. Mas como não foi, usaram no Physical Graffiti e foi lançada em 24 de fevereiro de 1975. Foi escrita no cottage Bron-Yr-Aur. Seria uma canção acústica, com uma clara influencia de Neil Young. Virou elétrica, com uma mudança de lenta pra rápida e repetindo essa idéia. Robert Plant tocou gaita e cantou. Jimmy Page tocou violão, guitarra, lap steel e slide guitar. John Paul Jones tocou baixo, bandolim, violão e teclado. John Bonham tocou bateria e percussão.

A letra:

Down by the seaside
See the boats go sailin'
Can the people hear
What the little fish are sayin'

Oh, oh, the people turned away
Oh, the people turned away

Down in the city streets,
See all the folk go racin', racin'
No time left, to pass the time of day

Baby, baby baby... The people turned away
The People turned away
So far away, so far away

See how they run, see how they run,
See how they run, see how they run

Do you still do the twist
Do you find you remember things that well
I want to tell you
Some go twistin' every day
Though sometimes it's awful hard to tell

Oh, oh... Out in the country,
Hear the people singin'
Singin' 'bout their progress
Knowin' where they're goin'

Oh, oh, the people turned away
Yes, the people turned away

Sing loud for the sunshine
Pray hard for the rain
And show your love for lady nature
And she will come back again

The people turned away
The people turned away

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