Phil Collins: "Another Day In Paradise" (1989)

"Another Day in Paradise" is a song by Phil Collins released as the first single from his number-one album But Seriously (1989). As with his song from Genesis, "Man on the Corner" "Another Day in Paradise" was written to bring attention to the problem of homelessness; as such, the song was a substantial departure from the dance-pop music of his previous album, No Jacket Required (1985). The song was a number-one hit worldwide, and the most successful song of his solo career. It eventually won Collins and producer Hugh Padgham the 1991 Grammy Award for Record of the Year. The song also won Best British Single at the 1990 Brit Awards. In the US, it was the final number one single of the 1980s on the Billboard Hot 100, and the first number one single of the 1990s.

Collins' version was listed at #86 on Billboard's Greatest Songs of all time.


- Lyrics:

She calls out to the man on the street
"Sir, can you help me?
It's cold and I've nowhere to sleep,
Is there somewhere you can tell me?"

He walks on, doesn't look back
He pretends he can't hear her
Starts to whistle as he crosses the street
Seems embarrassed to be there

Oh think twice, it's another day for
You and me in paradise
Oh think twice, it's just another day for you,
You and me in paradise

She calls out to the man on the street
He can see she's been crying
She's got blisters on the soles of her feet
She can't walk but she's trying

Oh think twice...

Oh lord, is there nothing more anybody can do
Oh lord, there must be something you can say

You can tell from the lines on her face
You can see that she's been there
Probably been moved on from every place
'Cos she didn't fit in there

Oh think twice...

Bob Marley & The Wailers; "High Tide Or Low Tide" (Save The Children's East Africa Appeal)

Millions of children are facing starvation right now -- this doesn't have to happen. Save The Children has launched an emergency aid response in Africa. Please watch this video, share with friends and download Bob Marley's single 'High Tide or Low Tide' with all proceeds going to the East Africa food crisis appeal. YOU CAN HELP NOW.

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"High Tide or Low Tide" is the first track of the CD bonus OF the album "Catch a Fire" which is the major-label-debut album for Jamaican reggae band The Wailers, released on Island Records in 1973. The album established the band as international superstars. Leader Bob Marley in particular became world-famous. The socially aware lyrics and militant tone surprised many listeners, but others were attracted to songwriters Marley and Peter Tosh's confrontational subjects and optimistic view of a future free from oppression.

Catch a Fire peaked at #171 and #51 on Billboard's (North America) Pop Albums and Black Albums charts respectively. It is number 123 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, the second highest placement of the five Bob Marley albums on the list, after the posthumous compilation album Legend. It is also regarded as one of the top reggae albums of all time.


- Lyrics:

In high seas or-a low seas,
I'm gonna be your friend
I'm gonna be your friend
In-a high tide or-a low tide,
I'll be by your side
I'll be by your side

(I heard her praying - praying - praying)
I said, I heard my mother
She was praying (praying - praying - praying); yeah, and I
And the words that she said (the words that she said),
They still-a lingers in my head (lingers in my head)
She said: "A child is born in this world,
He needs protection. Wo-oh, mmm
God, guide and protect us
When we're wrong, please correct us
(when we're wrong, correct us),
And stand by me," yeah!

High seas or-a low seas,
I'm gonna be your friend
He said, "I'm gonna be your friend."
And, baby, high tide or low tide,
I'll be by your side
I'll be by your side


(Instrumental break)


Mmm. I said, I heard my mother
She was cryin' (I heard her cryin'), yeah! (cryin', cryin')
And the tears that she shed (the tears that she shed),
They still lingers in my head (lingers in my head)
She said: "A child is born in this world,
He needs protection.
O-oh, mmm
God, guide and protect us
When we're wrong (when we're wrong), correct us." O-oh.
And in high seas or low seas,
I'm gonna be your friend
I'm gonna be your friend
Said, "High tide or low tide,
I'll be by your side
I'll be by your side"

Joan Baez: "Song Of Bangladesh" (1972)

Joan Chandos Baez is an American folk singer, songwriter and activist. Baez has a distinctive vocal style, with a strong vibrato. Her recordings include many topical songs and material dealing with social issues.

Baez began her career performing in coffeehouses in Boston and Cambridge, and rose to fame as an unbilled performer at the 1959 Newport Folk Festival. She began her recording career in 1960, and achieved immediate success. Her first three albums, Joan Baez, Joan Baez, Vol. 2, and Joan Baez in Concert all achieved gold record status, and stayed on the charts for two years.

Baez has had a popular hit song with "Diamonds & Rust" and hit covers of Phil Ochs's "There but for Fortune" and The Band's "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down". Other songs associated with Baez include "Farewell, Angelina", "Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word", "Joe Hill", "Sweet Sir Galahad" and "We Shall Overcome". She performed three of the songs at the 1969 Woodstock Festival, helped to bring the songs of Bob Dylan to national prominence, and has displayed a lifelong commitment to political and social activism in the fields of nonviolence, civil rights, human rights and the environment.

Baez has performed publicly for over 53 years, releasing over 30 albums. Fluent in Spanish as well as in English, she has also recorded songs in at least six other languages. She is regarded as a folk singer, although her music has diversified since the 1960s, encompassing everything from folk rock and pop to country and gospel music. Although a songwriter herself, Baez is generally regarded as an interpreter of other people's work, having recorded songs by The Allman Brothers Band, The Beatles, Jackson Browne, Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, The Rolling Stones, Pete Seeger, Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder, and many others. In recent years, she has found success interpreting songs of modern songwriters such as Ryan Adams, Steve Earle and Natalie Merchant.

Soucieuse de son rôle d'artiste engagée à délivrer un message de paix et de liberté, contre la guerre et l'injustice, elle est notamment une amie et supportrice du pasteur Martin Luther King, elle multiplie les apparitions tout autour de la planète. On peut citer les marches pour les droits civiques sur Washington, les manifestations antiségrégationnistes de l'Alabama, ou encore la visite de camp de prisonniers de guerre américains sous le feu des bombardements pendant la guerre du Vietnam.

- Lyrics:
Words and Music by: Joan Baez

Bangladesh, Bangladesh
Bangladesh, Bangladesh
When the sun sinks in the west
Die a million people of the Bangladesh

The story of Bangladesh
Is an ancient one again made fresh
By blind men who carry out commmands
Which flow out of the laws upon which nation stands
Which is to sacrifice a people for a land

Bangladesh, Bangladesh
Bangladesh, Bangladesh
When the sun sinks in the west
Die a million people of the Bangladesh

Once again we stand aside
And watch the families crucified
See a teenage mother's vacant eyes
As she watches her feeble baby try
To fight the monsoon rains and the cholera flies

And the students at the university
Asleep at night quite peacefully
The soldiers came and shot them in their beds
And terror took the dorm awakening shrieks of dread
And silent frozen forms and pillows drenched in red

Bangladesh, Bangladesh
Bangladesh, Bangladesh
When the sun sinks in the west
Die a million people of the Bangladesh

Did you read about the army officer's plea
For donor's blood? It was given willingly
By boys who took the needles in their veins
And from their bodies every drop of blood was drained
No time to comprehend and there was little pain

And so the story of Bangladesh
Is an ancient one again made fresh
By all who carry out commands
Which flow out of the laws upon which nations stand
Which say to sacrifice a people for a land

Bangladesh, Bangladesh
Bangladesh, Bangladesh
When the sun sinks in the west
Die a million people of the Bangladesh

Declan Galbraith: "Tell Me Why" (2002)

"Tell Me Why" is a single by singer Declan Galbraith. The song was released on 9 December 2002, 10 days before his 11th birthday, this was Declan's first single.

On 9 December 2002, the largest choir in history, drawn from all parts of the UK and Ireland, joined Declan to sing 'Tell Me Why' for a Guinness World Record. The event was organized by 'Young Voices in Concert'. Funds from the record-breaking attempt were donated to the Sargent Cancer Care for Children.


- Lyrics:

In my dream, children sing
A song of love for every boy and girl
The sky is blue and fields are green
And laughter is the language of the world
Then i wake and all i see
Is a world full of people in need
Chorus:
Tell me why(why) does it have to be like this?
Tell me why (why) is there something i have missed?
Tell me why (why) cos i don't understand
When so many need somebody
We don't give a helping hand
Tell me why?
Everyday i ask myself
What will i have to do to be a man?
Do i have to stand and fight
To prove to everybody who i am?
Is that what my life is for
To waste in a world full of war?
Chorus:
Tell me why(why) does it have to be like this?
Tell me why (why) is there something i have missed?
Tell me why (why) cos i don't understand
When so many need somebody
We don't give a helping hand
Tell me why?
Chorus:
(children)tell me why?(declan)tell me why?
(children)tell me why?(declan)tell me why?
(together) just tell me why, why, why?
Chorus:
Tell me why(why) does it have to be like this?
Tell me why (why) is there something i have missed?
Tell me why (why) cos i don't understand
When so many need somebody
We don't give a helping hand
Tell me why?
Chorus:
Tell me why (why,why,does the tiger run)
Tell me why(why why do we shoot the gun)
Tell me why (why,why do we never learn)
Can someone tell us why we let the forest burn?
(why,why do we say we care)
Tell me why(why,why do we stand and stare)
Tell me why(why,why do the dolphins cry)
Can some one tell us why we let the ocean die?
(why,why if we're all the same)
Tell me why(why,why do we pass the blame)
Tell me why (why,why does it never end)
Can some one tell us why we cannot just be friends?
Why,why

Young Artists for Haiti: "Wavin' Flag" (2010)

Young Artists for Haiti is a movement to engage Canada's young musicians to continue to inspire an ongoing effort and contribution to Canadian charities for their work to help the people of Haiti overcome the devastation from the 7.1 magnitude earthquake that rocked the country on January 12, 2010. More than 50 of Canadian artists gathered at The Warehouse Studio in Vancouver, British Columbia to record a rendition of renowned hip hop artist K'naan's "Wavin' Flag".

In accordance with wikipedia, produced by Canadian producer, Bob Ezrin, the song was reworked to include specific lyrics for Haiti and was released on March 12, 2010 with proceeds going to Free The Children, War Child Canada and World Vision Canada. Ezrin stated, "With the wealth of young artists coming out of Canada, it was obvious that this is something we had to do. K'naan's lyrics in Wavin' Flag embody the pain, passion and determination of the Haitian people and lend the hope of a brighter future. The response from the artists has been sensational, and I am so proud that together we may help to make a difference."


- Lyrics:

[chorus:]
When I get older
I will be stronger
They'll call me 'Freedon'
just like a wavin' flag
and then it goes back, and then it goes back
and then it goes back, and then it goes . . .

Born to a throne, stronger than Rome
but violent-prone, poor people zone,
But it's my home, all I have known,
where I got grown, streets we would roam
Out of the darkness, I came the farthest
out of the hardest survival
Learn from these streets, it can be bleak,
accept no defeat, surrender retreat

[bridge:]
So we strugglin'
fightin' to eat
and we wonderin'
when we'll be free
so we patiently wait
for that fateful day
it's not far away,
but for now we say:

[chorus]

So many wars, settlin' scores,
bringing us promises, leaving us poor,
I heard them say, love is the way
love is the answer, that's what they say
But look how they treat us, make us believers
we fight their battles, then they deeive us
try to control us, they couldn't hold us
'cause we just move forward like Buffalo soldiers

[Bridge]
[Chorus]

Playing For Change: Music School Building - Cape Town

Photo Movie of "Playing For Change: Peace Through Music" trip to Guguletu, South Africa (Township of CapeTown).



Where the PFC Foundation is building a new music school this fall that will connect students from there to others at established music schools.



To join this unique music movement, sign up at www.playingforchange.com

Playing for Change: Peace Through Music

Playing For Change: Peace Through Music is a film that explores our connections in a world overwhelmed with division. Through the process of making this film we traveled around the world and discovered that music opens the door to a place where we can come together as a human race. Music helps us to persevere through struggles and celebrate our differences which changes the world into a more peaceful place. Look for the DVD of this award-winning film in stores in late 2009.

The companion CD/DVD Playing For Change: Songs Around The World is available now at amazon.com: http://tinyurl.com/c6mhgd

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Official music charity single for Haiti

The music video for Simon Cowell's Haiti charity single, featuring Leona Lewis and Mika, has been released.

The cover of REM's Everybody Hurts was made available as a download on Sunday and is expected hit number one.

In the video, footage of the song's vocalists in the recording studio is intercut with images of the aftermath of the devastating earthquake.

The magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti in mid-January, killing more than 200,000 peoplE.


According to the BBC, singers including Rod Stewart, James Blunt, Robbie Williams, Cheryl Cole and Susan Boyle all feature in the five-and-a-half minute promo, which opens with a statement recalling the events of 12 January.


The Helping Haiti single was recorded in Los Angeles and London.

Artists including James Morrison and Alexandra Burke sang their lines at the Sarm Studios in Notting Hill - where the original Band Aid single was recorded in 1984.

The record, which is currently topping the iTunes and Amazon download charts, is also released to shops on Monday.

HMV spokesman Gennaro Castaldo said: "Helping Haiti's cover of Everybody Hurts should comfortably make number one and will hopefully go on to dominate the charts over the course of the next few weeks.

"We could not only be looking at the biggest single of 2010 but possibly one of the most successful releases of the past ten years."

REM, who recorded the original song in 1992, are waiving royalties to the track, while the Government has said it will not collect VAT on the record.

Proceeds will be split between the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) and the Sun newspaper's Helping Haiti campaign.

"We Are The World - 25 For Haiti" Official Video

Recorded on February 1st, 2010, in the same studio as the original 25 years earlier (Henson Recording Studios, formerly A&M Recording Studios) "We Are The World 25 For Haiti", in which Jones and Richie serve as executive producers and producers, was created in collaboration with executive producers Wyclef Jean, Randy Phillips and Peter Tortorici; producers Humberto Gattica and RedOne; and co-producers Rickey Minor, Mervyn Warren and Patti Austin to benefit the Haitian earthquake relief efforts and the rebuilding of Haiti.

Academy Award-winning writer-director Paul Haggis (Crash, Million Dollar Baby), whose own personal efforts as well as those of Artists for Peace and Justice have already saved countless lives in Haiti, filmed the private recording session to create the accompanying video and behind-the-scenes production, and serves as Film Director and as an Executive Producer with Jones, Richie, Jean, Phillips and Tortorici.

The 25th Anniversary recording features over 80 artists and performers. The recording of We Are The World 25 For Haiti embodied the same enthusiasm, sense of purpose and generosity as the original recording 25 years ago. Every one of the artists who participated, regardless of genre or generation, walked into the room with their hearts and souls completely open to coming together to help the people of Haiti.

For Haiti: 25 Stars recording "We Are The World-New Version"

When it came time to record the 25th-anniversary remake of "We Are the World," the legendary African-famine relief benefit's co-writer and producer, Lionel Richie, said he wanted to approach the project from a modern perspective. That might explain why none of the singers from the 1985 single were in the house for Monday night's marathon sessions, which took place in the same studios where the original song was laid down.

According to Mtv.Com, instead of Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Cyndi Lauper and the late Michael Jackson (whose previously recorded voice, however, will be heard on the tune), the 2010 version will be headlined by Justin Bieber, Lil Wayne, Wyclef Jean, Josh Groban and Will.I.Am. It features a newly penned hip-hop break written by the Black Eyed Peas leader that makes reference to the January 12 earthquake in Haiti, the victims of which will benefit from the song's proceeds.

Among the rap artists making the cut for "We Are the World — 25 for Haiti" are T-Pain, Kanye West, Bizzy Bone, Kid Cudi, LL Cool J, Snoop Dogg, Drake, Mann, Nipsey Hussle, Busta Rhymes and Swizz Beatz.