"Mack the Knife" or "The Ballad of Mack the Knife" is a song composed by Kurt Weill with lyrics by Bertolt Brecht for their 1928 music drama The Threepenny Opera. The song tells of a knife-wielding criminal of the London underworld named Macheath,the "Mack the Knife" of the title.
"Over the Rainbow",also known as "Somewhere Over the Rainbow",is a ballad by Harold Arlen with lyrics by Yip Harburg. It was written for the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz,in which it was sung by actress Judy Garland in her starring role as Dorothy Gale.
Ketevan "Katie" Melua is a British singer and songwriter. She was born in Kutaisi,Georgia and raised in Belfast and London. Under the management of composer Mike Batt,she was signed to the small Dramatico record label. She made her musical debut in 2003 and within three years,she was the United Kingdom's best-selling female artist as well as Europe's highest selling European female artist.
Call off the Search is the debut studio album by British jazz and blues singer Katie Melua,released in 2003.
Michael Philip Batt is an English singer-songwriter,musician,arranger,record producer,director,and conductor. He was formerly the Deputy Chairman of the British Phonographic Industry.
"American Idiot" is a protest song by the American rock band Green Day. The first single released from the album American Idiot,the song received positive reviews by critics and was nominated for four 2005 Grammy Awards:Record of the Year,Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal,Best Rock Song,and Best Music Video.
"The Love You Save" is a song recorded by the Jackson 5 for Motown Records. It was released as a single on May 13,1970,and held the number-one spot on the soul singles chart in the US for six weeks and the number-one position on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for two weeks,from June 27 to July 4,1970 and sold over 2 million copies in the United States. In the UK top 40 chart,it peaked at number 7 in August 1970. The song is the third of the four-in-a-row Jackson 5 number-ones released. Billboard ranked the record as the No. 16 song of 1970,one place behind the Jackson 5's "ABC".
Robert "Bob" Thiele was an American record producer who worked on numerous classic jazz albums and record labels.
"I Write the Songs" is a popular song written by Bruce Johnston. Barry Manilow's version reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in January 1976 after spending two weeks atop the Billboard adult contemporary chart in December 1975. It won a Grammy Award for Song of the Year and was nominated for Record of the Year in 1977. Billboard ranked it as the No. 13 song of 1976.
Piece by Piece is the second studio album by British jazz and blues singer Katie Melua. It was released on 26 September 2005 by Dramatico Records. In the United Kingdom,the album debuted at #1 with 120,459 copies sold in its first week.
"Wonderful World" is a song by American singer-songwriter Sam Cooke. Released on April 14,1960,by Keen Records,it had been recorded during an impromptu session the previous year in March 1959,at Sam Cooke's last recording session at Keen. He signed with RCA Victor in 1960 and "Wonderful World",then unreleased,was issued as a single in competition. The song was mainly composed by songwriting team Lou Adler and Herb Alpert,but Cooke revised the lyrics to mention the subject of education more.
"The Closest Thing to Crazy" is the debut single of Georgia-born singer Katie Melua. The song is featured on her first studio album,Call Off the Search (2003). The song was written as part of the musical Men Who March Away,and appeared first in 1995 on Mike Batt's album Arabesque.
"Nine Million Bicycles" is a song written and produced by Mike Batt for the singer Katie Melua's second album,Piece by Piece. It was released as the album's first single in September 2005 and reached number five on the UK Singles Chart,becoming Melua's first top five hit as a solo artist. It was a finalist for The Record of the Year prize,losing to "You Raise Me Up" by Westlife.
"Fields of Gold" is a song written and performed by English musician Sting. It first appeared on his fourth studio album,Ten Summoner's Tales (1993). The song,co-produced by Sting with Hugh Padgham,was released as a single on 7 June 1993 by A&M Records,reaching No. 16 on the UK Singles Chart and No. 23 on the US Billboard Hot 100. The song also reached No. 2 in Canada and No. 6 in Iceland. In 1994,it was awarded one of BMI's Pop Songs Awards. The music video for the song was directed by Kevin Godley,featuring Sting as a gold silhouette.
"It's All in the Game" is a pop song whose most successful version was recorded by Tommy Edwards in 1958. Carl Sigman composed the lyrics in 1951 to a wordless 1911 composition titled "Melody in A Major",written by Charles G. Dawes,who was later Vice President of the United States under Calvin Coolidge. It is the only No. 1 single in the U.S. to have been co-written by a U.S. Vice President or a Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
"I Think We're Alone Now" is a song written and composed by Ritchie Cordell that was first recorded by Tommy James and the Shondells. It was a major hit for the group,reaching number 4 on the US Hot 100 in April 1967. It finished at No. 12 on Billboard magazine's year-end singles chart for 1967.
"Cherish" is a pop song written by Terry Kirkman and recorded by the Association. Released in 1966,the song reached number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in September of that year and remained in the top position for three weeks. Billboard ranked the record as the No. 7 song of 1966,and later as No. 2,after a revision of the year-end charts. It was certified Gold by the RIAA in the US in 1966. In Canada,the song also reached number one.
"Wonderful Life" is a song by British singer Black from his 1987 debut album,Wonderful Life. The song was released twice as a single and was successful the second time,becoming a top-10 hit in Australia,Austria,France,Germany,Italy,Switzerland,the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Black,who wrote the song while broke,commented:"I was really being ironic... Most people took it at face value."
"If You Were a Sailboat" is a song by British singer Katie Melua. Written and produced by Mike Batt,it is Melua's ninth single and the first from her third album,Pictures (2007). Melua said of the song:
What I liked about the song is the fact that a lot of love songs tend to deal with the fluffy nice side of love,but this one deals with how you get very selfish when you fall in love with someone,and you don't want to share them with the world,you just want them all about yourself. What's genius about Mike's lyrics is that instead of saying that directly he uses these crazy strange metaphors,"if you were a piece of wood I'd nail you to the floor" and quite bizarre stuff and I like that. Musically it sounds like a really nice smooth love song,but the message is pretty intense and quite dark.
"The Flood" is a song performed by the Georgian-born,British singer Katie Melua and the lead single from her 4th studio album The House. It was released on 17 May 2010 by Digital download and by CD on 24 May 2010.
