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"Blue Eyes" is a song performed by British musician Elton John with music and lyrics written by John and Gary Osborne. It was released in 1982 as the UK lead single from John's 16th studio album, Jump Up! (1982). It was released as the album's second single in the US. [1]
The song was copyrighted on October 19, 1925 as "Five foot two, eyes of blue; has anybody seen my girl" [1] The shorter form of the title, "Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue", has been used since the first release of the song [2] and appears to have become the most common form.
The song consists of a number of unrelated verses, one of which (verse three) comes from an old folk song – "Shinbone Alley": You ought to see my Blue Eyed Sally, She lives way down on Shinbone Alley.
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Urban debuted "Brown Eyes Baby" live on the opening night of his "The Speed of Now World Tour" in the spring of 2022. [6] On June 30, 2022, Urban performed the song live from the Rockefeller Center in New York City. [7] He also performed it on NBC's Today Show that day. [12] In November 2022, he performed the song on ABC's Good Morning America ...
Of the eight songs on the album, all were composed by Morrison except "Goodbye Baby (Baby Goodbye)" and the last song, "Midnight Special".Clinton Heylin contends that the first side of the album "makes for one of the great single-sided albums in rock", [6] whereas Greil Marcus, the album's most hostile critic, found it "painfully boring, made up of three sweet minutes of 'Brown Eyed Girl' and ...
The B-side, “Amsterdam”, was a cover of a Jacques Brel song, that had been performed live by Bowie since 1968. The song may have been recorded by Bowie in the summer 1973 sessions for Pin Ups [8] or in late 1971 [9] for the album Ziggy Stardust. Never selected as an album track, it was used as the single B-side as it fitted with "Sorrow".
"Jewel Eyed Judy" is a song by British rock group Fleetwood Mac, which was released as a single from the 1970 Kiln House album. Although credited to John McVie, Mick Fleetwood, and Danny Kirwan, Mick Fleetwood stated in his 2014 autobiography, Play On, that his wife Jenny Boyd and Christine McVie wrote the lyrics together when Boyd was four months pregnant. [2]