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"Fly Away" is a song by American singer Lenny Kravitz. It was released as the fourth single from his fifth studio album, 5 (1998). Released to the radio on May 11, 1998, "Fly Away" peaked at number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100. Outside of the United States, "Fly Away" topped the charts in Iceland and the United Kingdom, and peaked within the top ...
"Do You Wanna Get Away" is a 1985 song by American dance pop singer Shannon. It was released as the lead single from her second studio album of the same name . It was her third number one dance chart hit in less than two years.
A country version was recorded by American country music and rockabilly singer Narvel Felts in 1973. Felts' version — which changed the lyrics "I wanna get lost in your rock and roll" to "I wanna get lost in your country song" — peaked at number 8 on the US Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in mid-August 1973, about three months after Gray's version reached its popularity peak. [14]
"Man Next Door" (also known as "Quiet Place" or "I've Got to Get Away") is a song composed and adapted by John Holt and first recorded by his group The Paragons in 1968. Holt's song is partially based on the original composition, "Quiet Place", recorded by Soul R & B artist Garnet Mimms & The Enchanters, released in 1963 on his Cry Baby (Garnet Mimms album).
In 1988, Samuels wrote and recorded "They're Coming to Get Me Again, Ha-Haaa!", a sequel to the original record. It was released two years later, but never charted. In the song, the narrator has been discharged from the mental hospital but remains plagued by insanity and fears being readmitted. At the end of the song, he exclaims, "Oh, no!"
The song was written by Portnoy and Judy Hart-Angelo, and performed by Portnoy in 1982. Shortly after the premiere of Cheers, Portnoy went back into the studio to record a longer version of the song that made the U.S. and British pop charts. The full-length version was made available on Portnoy's 2004 album Keeper.
Fame felt the chart success of "Get Away" "marked a really specific stage in my development" as, unlike "Yeh, Yeh", the song was self-composed. [13] Upon release, Norman Jopling and Peter Jones of Record Mirror praised the song's arrangement as "hustle-rhythm, fast-lyricked and with curious and compelling little brass-sax phrase". [14]
"Gotta Get Away" was inspired by an early track, "Cogs", written while the band was still named Manic Subsidal. [3] Although the song was a big hit, it did not reach the heights nor achieve the popularity, success, airplay, or sales of the album's previous singles "Come Out and Play" and "Self Esteem". The song has two single covers.