Classic million-selling song written by Will Jennings and Steve Winwood remixed and reissu
Classic million-selling song written by Will Jennings and Steve Winwood remixed and reissued on Winwood's 1987 compilation album "Chronicles".
- The original was released off of Winwood's 1982 Album "Talking Back To The Night".
- The 1982 version reached #70 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. The remix by Tom Lord-Alge climbed to #9 in the U.S., and also reached #19 in the UK.
- The song and original album was recorded at his home in Gloucestershire, UK with Winwood playing all instruments.
- Eric Prydz sampled the song in 2004 for a house music track and presented it to Winwood. He was so impressed with what Prydz had done, he re-recorded the vocals to fit the track better. The 2004 remix was released under the title "Call on Me".
- The song deals with a man reminiscing about a lost love he hopes to find again someday.
- According to Will Jennings "Valerie is a real person, whose identity I will not reveal. She was almost at the top of the world in her profession and let it slip away from her. She was a dear friend and this was my tribute to her."
For more info check his official websites
http://www.stevewinwood.com
http://www.myspace.com/16574449
Lyrics..
So wild, standing there, with her hands in her hair
I can't help remember just where she touched me
There's still no face here in her place
So cool, she was like jazz on a summers day
Music, high and sweet, then she just blew away
Now she can't be that warm with the wind in her arms
Valerie, call on me-call on me, valerie
Come and see me-I'm the same boy I used to be
Love songs fill the night, but they don't tell it all
Not how lovers cry out just like they're dying
Her cries hang there in time somewhere
Someday, some good wind may blow her back to me
Some night I may hear her like she used to be
No it can't be that warm with the wind in her arms
So cool, she was like jazz on a summers day
Music, high and sweet, then she just blew away
Don't tell me you're warm with the wind in your arms
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The title track from Steve Winwood's 1986 Grammy award winning Album "Back In The High Lif
The title track from Steve Winwood's 1986 Grammy award winning Album "Back In The High Life"
According to co-writer Will Jennings...
"We wrote those songs in the fall of '84, and it was a long spell before he got in the studio in New York. We had 'Higher Love' and several other songs, including 'The Finer Things.' And then it was toward the end of my stay over there and we still needed some other songs. I had 'Back in the High Life Again' in this book that I carry with me of titles. I pulled that out and I suddenly found the rest of the song, and I wrote that in about 30 minutes, and left it with Steve to put a melody to. So this is in '84. And then I went back to California, and it was a year, I guess, before he went in the studio, sometime in '85. I called one day and talked to Russ Titelman who was producing the album. They were doing it in New York. I asked him how it was going, and he said, 'Oh it's going great.' He said 'Higher Love' came out great and 'The Finer Things.' I asked him how 'Back In The High Life' would come out. There was this little pause, and he said, 'Steve hasn't shown me that song.' So turns out that Steve had not written the music to it yet and he at that time was going through a divorce. And because of the divorce, his wife got everything in the house, this big house in England. So he came up from London and went out to this house, which he still lives in and he had for years before he was married, and everything was gone, except there was a mandolin over in the corner of the living room. It was winter and it was dreary. He went over and picked up the mandolin, and he already had the words in his head, and that's when he wrote the melody. He went back and not only cut a big hit which still is played so much today, but it was the title track of the album. And if I hadn't asked about it, it would have just gone by, so that's one that was saved at the last minute."
Says Jennings, "You just need to get the feel of what they want to do, where they're coming from and what their life has been. The soulfulness comes into writing the truth of the singer. If you're writing with or particularly for a singer, you try to get inside them."
- Singer/ song writer James Taylor contributed background vocal.
-The video was shot at the Southern Railway station in Manassas, Virginia.
-The late Warren Zevon did a low-key, acoustic cover of this song on his 2000 album "Life'll Kill Ya".
For more info check his official websites
http://www.stevewinwood.com
http://www.myspace.com/16574449
Lyrics:
"It used to seem to me
That my life ran on too fast
And I had to take it slowly
Just to make the good parts last
But when youre born to run
Its so hard to just slow down
So dont be surprised to see me
Back in that bright part of town
Ill be back in the high life again
All the doors I closed one time will open up again
Ill be back in the high life again
All the eyes that watched me once will smile and take me in
And Ill drink and dance with one hand free
Let the world back into me
And on Ill be a sight to see
Back in the high life again
You used to be the best
To make life be life to me
And I hope that youre still out there
And youre like you used to be
Well have ourselves a time
And well dance til the morning sun
And well let the good times come in
And we wont stop til were done
Well be back in the high life again
All the doors I closed one time will open up again
Well be back in the high life again
All the eyes that watched us once will smile and take us in
And well drink and dance with one hand free
And have the world so easily
And oh well be a sight to see
Back in the high life again
Well be back in the high life again
All the doors I closed one time will open up again
Well be back in the high life again
All the eyes that watched us once will smile and take us in
And well drink and dance with one hand free
And have the world so easily
And oh well be a sight to see
Back in the high life again"
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An amazing song from Steve Winwood's 1980 album "Arc Of A Diver"
-In this classic 1981
An amazing song from Steve Winwood's 1980 album "Arc Of A Diver"
-In this classic 1981 hit "While You See a Chance", in a stanza where Steve sings "And that old gray wind is blowing and there's nothing left worth knowing," Winwood accidentally overdubs "nothing left..." with "no one left..."
-The entire track was thrown together in a relatively quick fashion, and at one point Winwood accidentally deleted the drum track introduction in preparation for vocals. The keyboard introduction that he composed on the spot to replace it is now iconic.
-According to co-writer, Will Jennings... "The lyric of the song is about realizing that you are all alone in this life and you have to do with it what you can. There's an old English expression called "Fake it till you make it." If you don't have romance in your life, meaning in the broader sense, really, something to make life interesting, just imagine it until it's there."
-Steve recorded it in his own studio in Gloucestershire UK. He played virtually all the instruments on the album. The mastering engineer had to crank a whole lot of bass onto the final tape as it was bass light, probably due to Winwood's studio monitors being bass heavy.
-Many radio stations, when the song was released, played the video version of the single which was quite noticeable for the edit near half way during the song. It is believed to have been done this way as the song in full runs for over five minutes.
For more info checkout his official websites
http://www.stevewinwood.com/
http://www.myspace.com/165744497
lyrics:
"Stand up in a clear blue morning until you see what can be
Alone in a cold day dawning, are you still free? can you be?
When some cold tomorrow finds you, when some sad old dream reminds you
How the endless road unwinds you
While you see a chance take it, find romance fake it
Because its all on you
Dont you know by now no one gives you anything
Dont you wonder how you keep on moving one more day your way
When theres no one left to leave you, even you dont quite believe you
Thats when nothing can deceive you
Stand up in a clear blue morning until you see what can be
Alone in a cold day dawning, are you still free? can you be?
And that old gray wind is blowing and theres nothing left worth knowing
And its time you should be going"
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