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"People" is a song composed by Jule Styne with lyrics by Bob Merrill for the 1964 Broadway musical Funny Girl starring Barbra Streisand, who introduced the song. The song was released as a single in 1964 with " I Am Woman ", a solo version of "You Are Woman, I Am Man", also from Funny Girl .
In 2021, Rolling Stone named "People Get Ready" the 122nd greatest song of all time. [3] The song was included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. "People Get Ready" was named as one of the Top 10 Best Songs of All Time by Mojo music magazine, and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998.
"People Are Strange" is a song by the American rock band the Doors. It appears on the band's second studio album, Strange Days, released in September 1967.The song was written by the Doors' vocalist Jim Morrison and guitarist Robby Krieger, although all of the band are credited on the sleeve notes.
"Games People Play" is a song written, composed, and performed by American singer-songwriter Joe South, released in August 1968. [1] It entered the Billboard Hot 100 in January 1969 and won the 1970 Grammy Awards for both Best Contemporary Song and the Song of the Year.
James Dennis Carroll (August 1, 1949 – September 11, 2009) was an American author, poet, and punk musician. Carroll was best known for his 1978 autobiographical work The Basketball Diaries, which inspired a 1995 film of the same title that starred Leonardo DiCaprio as Carroll, and his 1980 song "People Who Died" with the Jim Carroll Band.
"Y.M.C.A." is a song by American disco group Village People, written by Jacques Morali (also the record's producer) and singer Victor Willis [1] and released in October 1978 by Casablanca Records as the only single from their third studio album, Cruisin' (1978).
"People" is a song by Cameroonian-American singer Libianca, released on December 5, 2022. The lyrics of the song are inspired by Libianca's personal experience with depression . [ 1 ] The song has had particular success in the UK , Ireland , and New Zealand , where it reached number two, and in the Netherlands and Suriname , where it topped the ...
The line "some people call me Maurice / 'Cause I speak of the pompatus of love" was written after Miller heard the song "The Letter" by the Medallions. In "The Letter", writer Vernon Green made up the word puppetutes, meaning a paper-doll erotic fantasy figure; [4] however, Miller misheard the word and wrote pompatus instead.