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"Fly Like a Bird" is a song by American singer-songwriter Mariah Carey, released on March 13, 2006, by Island Records as a single from her tenth studio album, The Emancipation of Mimi (2005). Written and produced by Carey and James "Big Jim" Wright , the song is influenced by Gospel , soul , and R&B music genres.
A variation of "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!" was also done by Jerry Samuels on the same album, titled "The Place Where the Nuts Hunt the Squirrels", where Samuels, towards the end of the track, repeats the line: "they're trying to drive me sane" before the song's fade, in a fast-tracked higher voice. [15]
The song combines country and hip-hop elements, [1] opening with acoustic guitar strums and audio samples of people talking in a bar. Dustin Lynch recounts a romantic encounter in the opening verse and sings in the melody of "Drift Away" during the chorus, [2] in which he describes his ideal environment to spend time with a "country girl": a six-pack, some Brooks & Dunn and a Chevrolet.
The music also interpolates elements of "Summer in the City" by The Lovin' Spoonful. The car horn-like trumpet sound in the bridge of "Birdhouse in Your Soul" recalls the sounds of traffic in "Summer in the City" and both songs use similar rhythms in their chord progressions. Linnell states that these references were inspired by the intense ...
The song charted on the Billboard Hot 100 for 17 weeks, including four at number one. [10] In 2018, Billboard ranked "Close to You" the top single of the summer of 1970. [11] Bacharach and David gave Herb Alpert the song after he scored a number one hit in 1968 with "This Guy's in Love with You", which the duo had also written. Alpert recorded ...
"Fun, Fun, Fun" is a song by the American rock band the Beach Boys from their 1964 album Shut Down Volume 2. Written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love, it was released as a single in February, backed with "Why Do Fools Fall in Love".
The song often consists mainly of "floating" verses (verses found in more than one song expressing common experiences and emotions), and apart from the constant cuckoo verse, usually sung at the beginning, there is no fixed order, though sometimes a verse sounds as if it is going to be the start of a story: A-walking, a-talking, a-walking was I,
The song was premiered on its release day by British radio stations Radio X, BBC Radio 2 and Absolute Radio. [1]Gallagher described the song as being one of his favourite pieces of music he has ever written, saying that it sounds great live and his children love it and his friends’ children love it.