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"One Day I'll Fly Away" is a song performed by American R&B and jazz singer Randy Crawford, from her fourth studio album, Now We May Begin (1980). The song was written by Joe Sample and Will Jennings and produced by Sample, Wilton Felder and Stix Hooper. It received generally favorable reviews from music critics. The song was a commercial ...
"Almaz" is a single by American female soul singer Randy Crawford, which was recorded in 1986. [1] [2] The song reached number four in the UK Singles Chart.[3]"Almaz" is one of the few songs Randy Crawford has written by herself, and the first of her own compositions that was released as a single.
"Street Life" is a song by American jazz band the Crusaders, released in 1979 by MCA Records as a single from the album of the same name. The lead vocals were performed by Randy Crawford . [ 1 ] The song was a hit in the US, reaching number 36 on the Billboard Hot 100 , [ 2 ] and in Europe, where it peaked at number 5 on the UK Singles Chart ...
You Might Need Somebody" is a song written by Tom Snow and Nan O'Byrne, and first recorded in 1979 by American singer and guitarist Turley Richards. In 1981, American jazz and R&B singer and songwriter Randy Crawford released her
Veronica "Randy" Crawford (born February 18, 1952) is a retired American jazz and R&B singer. She has been more successful in Europe than in the United States, where she has not entered the Billboard Hot 100 as a solo artist. [ 1 ]
Now We May Begin is an album by the American R&B singer Randy Crawford, released in 1980 on Warner Bros. Records. The album got to No. 10 on the UK Albums Chart and No. 30 on the US Billboard Top R&B Albums chart. Now We May Begin has also been certified Silver in the UK by the BPI. [2] [3] [4] [5]
"Street Life" also hit the disco chart, peaking at No. 75, [2] and was re-recorded by Doc Severinsen with Crawford reprising her vocal for the opening sequence of the noir crime drama Sharky's Machine, directed by Burt Reynolds in 1981. This faster paced version was also featured in Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown, released in 1997.
The song, a portrait of the Italian post-war and of the ordinary life in the Po Valley countryside of the time, is dedicated to Diamante Arduini Fornaciari, the grandmother of the singer. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Zucchero asked his friend De Gregori to write the lyrics as he feared to be overly involved, and to compose something corny.