Ryan P. Desmond

Always Lyrics by Pebbles

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Always was Pebbles’s sophomore album, which peaked at #12 on Billboard’s Hot R&B Albums list. It stayed on the charts for 52 weeks. Its album titled track, “Always” was on the charts for 16 weeks and peaked at #13.

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Meet the Artist
Pebbles

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Always

Composer(s)
Pebbles
Danny Sembello

Cherrelle?

Yes, Pebbs?

Have you ever loved someone so much
That you could feel it deep down in your soul?

Girls, I truly have

Well, this is how I feel about the one I love
Let’s sing it together
Always

Boy
I never knew a love like you before
You came into my life and gave me more
You are my friend
Also, my man
And I’ll love you always

You
You just don’t know
What you’ve done for me
You gave me love and now I’m complete

You are the sun (You are the sun)
The only one (The only one)
And I’ll love you always

Baby, don’t leave me
Don’t ever desert me
I’ll promise my life to you
And I’ll love you always (Love you always)

Baby, don’t leave me
Don’t ever desert me (Always)
I’ll promise my life to you
And I’ll love you always (I love you always)

I
Wish I had known that you’d come for me
I was a soul that was lost and incomplete
You are my friend (You are my friend)
And now you’re my man (My man)
And I want you always

I
I just don’t know what came over me (Over me, boy)
You touched my soul and let me feel free

Always be there
And baby, don’t be scared
Cause I’ll love ya always
Baby, always

Baby, don’t leave me
Don’t ever desert me
I promise my life to you
And I love you always (Love you always)

Baby, don’t leave me
Don’t ever desert me
I promise my life to you
And I love you always

My friend
You’re my man
I do, I do, I do
I do love you

You, you should know now that I’d never leave you
When I’ve searched the land and now I’ve found you

(You are my girl) You are my man
(I am you man) My only man
And I’ll love you always
Always

Baby, don’t leave me
Don’t ever desert me
I promise my love to you
And I love you always (Love you always)

Baby, don’t leave me
Don’t ever desert me
I promise my love to you
And I love you always

Baby, don’t leave me
Don’t ever desert me
I promise my love to you
And I love you always (Love you always)

Baby, don’t leave me
Don’t ever desert me
I promise my love to you
And I love you always

Baby, don’t ever leave
Don’t ever leave me, please
I promise unselfishly
To love you always

Baby, don’t ever go
Don’t ever leave me, no
All the things that we’ve been through
Still love you

Baby, don’t you ever go
Don’t you ever go
Never leave you, no

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Time After Time Lyrics by The Isley Brothers

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“Time After Time” appears as the 10th track on the 1962 released album, Twist & Shout. It seems to be the track that introduced The Isley Brother’s transition from doo-wop to the classic, love Ballard sound that these gentlemen are best know for.

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Meet the Artist
The Isley Brothers

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Twist & Shout

Composer(s)
Jule Styne
Sammy Cahn

Ooh, time
Time after time
I tell myself that I’m
So lucky to be loving you

So lucky to be
The one you, you run to see
In the evening, when
The day is through

And I
I only know what I know
The passing years may show
You’ve kept my love so young, so, so new

And time
Time after time
You’re gonna hear me
I’m gonna say that I’m
So lucky to be loving you

And I
I only know what I know
The passing years may show
You’ve kept my love so young, so, so new

And time
Time after time
You’re gonna hear me
I’m gonna say that I’m
So, so lucky to be loving you

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You’ve Changed Lyrics by Marvin Gaye

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“You’ve Changed” is the first song on the 1964 album, When I’m Alone I Cry. Marvin Gaye wanted to be known as a crooner, like Frank Sinatra. However, Motown Records changed his sound. This album is classic Marvin Gaye.

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Marvin Gaye

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When I’m Alone I Cry

Composer(s)
Bill Carey
Carl Fischer

Baby, you’ve changed
That sparkle in your eye has gone
Your smile is just a careless yawn
You’re breaking my heart, cause you’ve changed, ooh
You’ve changed
Your kisses now are so blasé
You are bored with me in every way
And I can’t understand, ooh, ooh, you’ve changed

You’ve forgotten the words I love you
Each memory that we’ve shared
Ooh, you ignore every star above you
I can’t realize that you ever cared

You’ve changed
You’re not the angel I once knew
No need to tell me that we are through
It’s all over now, ooh
Ooh, you’ve changed, you’ve changed

It’s all over now
It’s all over now, uhh, uhh, uhh
You’ve changed

The R&B Archives: Origins of a Genre

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Pinpointing the exact moment that R&B was created is difficult for a couple of reasons. First, the genre was not created ex nihilo. It was a combination of two sounds that evolved into the sound that we hear today. Second, during its rise, music was described as being either folk music or popular music. R&B evolved from popular music, which was every type of music that was not folk. That included sounds like jazz, blues, and rock ‘n’ roll.

From the 1890s to the post World War II era, African Americans combined complex African rhythms with European harmonic structures. That combination would later create jazz music. However, Ragtime (1895 to 1919) is considered to be the precursor to the genre of music that Jerry Wexler coined Rhythm and Blues in 1947. Ernest Hogan composed La Pas Ma La in 1895. It is the first known Ragtime composition to be published. However, Ben Harney composed You’ve Been a Good Old Wagon But You Done Broke Down the following year, which helped to popularize the Ragtime genre.

Dance orchestras helped Ragtime gain acceptance with a larger percentage of society during the 1910s. And the big band sound transitioned popular music from Ragtime to a smoother, rhythmic style during the 1920s and 1930s. Jazz music emerged during this transitional period. And jazz artists would fuse the smooth sounds of big band music with deep, rhythmic tones. Jelly Roll Morton, an American ragtime and jazz pianist, bandleader, and composer, considered the tresillo or habanera to be an essential part of jazz. R&B producers, like Dave Bartholomew, would incorporate this Cuban form of music into his records.

In fact, Bartholomew superimposed tresillo over a swing rhythm in his 1949 release of Country Boy. He used this fusion of sound throughout much of his work. And thanks to Bartholomew, this fusion was the most heavily-used rhythmic pattern in 1950s rock ‘n’ roll. He wrote and produced for legendary rock ‘n’ rollers, like Fats Domino and Little Richard. Fats Domino recorded at least 40 songs that landed in the Top 10 on the R&B chart. And Little Richard has seventeen Top 40 R&B singles.

Surrender: Get Up On It Lyrics

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Get Up On It was also featured on Keith Sweat’s album with the same name. This track spent 20 weeks on Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. Get Up On It eventually peaked at #12 on November 12, 1994.

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Kut Klose

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Surrender

Composer(s)
Fitzgerald Scott
Keith Sweat

I got something for the fellas this time around
Ladies won’t you, tell them your names

Tabitha
Athena
and La Von

If you really, really want it
All you got to do is, get up on it
If you really, really want it
All you got to do is get up on it

The time has come for us
Ooh baby, to get real busy, baby
Oh yes it has, mmm
And you don’t have to be afraid of my love
Oh no
‘Cause it won’t hurt ya suga’
Oh no it won’t, ooh yeah baby

If you really, really want it
(If you really want it)
All you got to do is, get up on it
(Get up on it, yeah)
If you really, really want it
(Baby, do you really want my love)
All you got to is, get up on it

I like it girl when we
Get real freaky baby
Ooh yes I do, baby
And I’m on my hands and knees
You know I’m with it suga’
Girl I’m with everything you want to do

(Sang)
If you really, really want it
(If you really want it, baby)
All you go to do is, get up on it
(All you gotta do girl)
(Get up on that love of mine)
If you really, really want it
(If you really, really want it baby, yeah baby)
All you got to do is get up on it
(Girl I want you to sing this song tonight)

Boy, I know that this is it
(A love)
‘Cause I know that I’m giving you a love
(And I know I’m giving you a love)
A love, a love that you can’t resist, baby
(A love you can’t resist)
(Sang, sang)
(Bring it on)

(If you really, really want it)
If you really want it, come on and get it
(All you got to is get up on it)
Get up on it, oh
(If you really, really want it)
If you really want it
Come on, baby
(All you got to do it get up on it)
Oh baby, yeah

Oh, girl
(I know that this is it)
I know that this is it
(See, I know that this is it, boy)
And I know that I’m giving my love (And I’m giving you my love
(A love you can’t resist)
Don’t leave me baby
(Oh, oh yeah)
Yeah baby
(Oh, boy)

(I know that this is it)
I know, I know, I know
I know I’m giving you
I’m giving you all my loving my, baby
(I know I’m giving you my love)
Oh love
(A love you can’t resist)
A love that you can’t resist
I wanna lick you up and down
(Boy, I know that this is it)
Oh baby, I want you to take your time
Take your time, oh take your time with me

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Always Lyrics by Pebbles

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