♫ If Ever You’re In My Arms Again ♫

Posted on October 20, 2022 by jilldennison under Bits 'n Pieces, Humour, music, Personal

A funny story about this one … I last played it in 2019, so I was happy tonight that it met my self-imposed criteria for a redux, but … I was a bit puzzled by the title … something seemed not quite right. So, I went looking for info and … well … when I played it in 2019, I had the title wrong! I had it as “If Ever I’m In Your Arms Again” … when in reality it is “If Ever You’re In My Arms Again”. And nobody caught that back in 2019! Not even my friend Ellen caught it, and she was my music expert! Nobody! See, I even found it on Google … third one from the top …

Anyway, tonight I once again bring you the talented, sexy, knock-out voiced Peabo Bryson!

Released in 1984 as a single from his album Straight from the Heart, the single peaked at #6 on the R&B chart and was Bryson’s first Top 10 single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, where it peaked at #10 during the summer of 1984. Other than that, though, I find no trivia about the song, and one of my best usual sources, SongFacts, doesn’t even know who Peabo Bryson is! So, you’ll have to settle for just listening to the music tonight.

If Ever You’re in My Arms Again
Peabo Bryson

It all came so easy
All the lovin’ you gave me
The feelings we shared
And I still can remember
How your touch was so tender
It told me you cared

We had a once in a lifetime
But I just couldn’t see
Until’ it was gone
A second once in a lifetime
May be too much to ask
But I swear from now on

If ever you’re in my arms again
This time I’ll love you much better
If ever you’re in my arms again
This time I’ll hold you forever
This time we’ll never end

Now I’m seen clearly
How I still need you near me
I still love you so
There’s something between us
That won’t ever leave us
There’s no letting go
(No letting go)

We had a once in a lifetime
But I just didn’t know it
‘Til my life fell apart
A second once in a lifetime
Isn’t too much to ask
‘Cause I swear from the heart

If ever you’re in my arms again
This time I’ll love you much better
If ever you’re in my arms again
This time I’ll hold you forever
This time we’ll never end, never end

The best of romances
Deserve second chances
I’ll get to you somehow
‘Cause I promise now

If ever you’re in my arms again
This time I’ll love you much better
If ever you’re in my arms again
This time I’ll hold you forever
This time we’ll never end

If ever you’re in my arms again
This time I’ll love you much better
If ever you’re in my arms again
This time I’ll hold you forever
This time we’ll never end
If ever you’re in my arms again
This time I’ll love you much better
If ever you’re in my arms again
This time I’ll hold you forever
This time we’ll never end
If ever you’re in my arms again

Songwriters: SNOW TOM / MASSER MICHAEL
If Ever You’re in My Arms Again lyrics © Almo Music Corp., Almo-music Corporation, Prince Street Music, Dyad Music, Snow Music, Dyad Music Ltd., Universal Music Corporation, Almo Music Corporation, UNIVERSAL MUSIC CORP OBO PRINCE STREET MUSIC, Almo Music Corp, DYAD MUSIC LTD

♫ Don’t Know Much ♫ (Redux)

Posted on November 1, 2020 by jilldennison under music

I have had this bloomin’ song stuck in my head for two whole days now, so you guys know what that means, right? Yes, it means I simply must share it before it drives me nuts. Mind you, I love this song … but anything that inhabits your sleeping as well as waking moments really needs to be shared. I last played this in September 2018, so it’s time to feature it again.

The husband-and-wife songwriting team of Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil wrote this with Tom Snow, who is known for his work on music for movies such as Footloose. The song first appeared on Mann’s self-titled album in 1980. Bill Medley recorded it in 1981, and Bette Midler released a version called “All I Need To Know” in 1983. But the version that stands above the crowd is this one, a duet with Linda Ronstadt and Aaron Neville.

Ronstadt and Neville met at the 1984 World’s Fair when both were performing there and realized their mutual admiration. When they decided to work together, they picked this song, which was brought to their attention by producer Steve Tyrell. This won a Grammy for Best Vocal Performance by a Pop Group or Duo. Ronstadt and Neville would team up for another Grammy-winning song, “All My Life,” which earned the same prize in 1990.

Neville and Ronstadt portray in the song’s music video a couple still in love in their middle age. Neville told Mojo magazine February 2013 that despite the rumors, he and Ronstadt were no more than friends. He said: “The guy who directed called us in a room and said, ‘Look – if y’all ain’t gonna make this thing believable, there ain’t no sense in doin’ it.’ Linda’s a pretty woman – it wasn’t hard to portray that. But they had all kinda stupid rumors out. None of ’em were true ‘cos we’re friends. We respected each other. But I look at the video and it looks kinda suspect (laughs).”

Don’t Know Much
Linda Ronstadt, Aaron Neville

Look at this face I know the years are showing
Look at this life I still don’t know where it’s going

I don’t know much but I know I love you
That may be all I need to know

Look at these eyes they never seen what matters
Look at these dreams so beaten and so battered

I don’t know much but I know I love you
That may be all I need to know

So many questions still left unanswered
So much I’ve never broken through
And when I feel you near me, sometimes I see so clearly
That only truth I’ll never know is me and you

Look at this man so blessed with inspiration
Look at this soul still searching for salvation

I don’t know much but I know I love you
That may be all I need to know

I don’t know much but I know I love you
That may be all there is to know

Songwriters: Tom Snow / Cynthia Weil / Barry Mann
Don’t Know Much lyrics © Karen Schauben Publishing Administration

♫ If Ever I’m In Your Arms Again ♫

Posted on September 6, 2019 by jilldennison under music

A few nights ago, I played Tonight I Celebrate My Love by Roberta Flack and Peabo Bryson, which led me to remember (with a little help from a friend) a few other songs from Peabo Bryson that I love.

One such song, If Ever I’m In Your Arms Again, has stuck in my head much of the day today, and despite trying to cough it out, sneeze it out, and smacking myself upside the head a couple of times, it seems to have taken up residence and made itself at home up there. So, of course you know what that means … from my head to yours!