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"Suspicious Minds" is a song about being trapped in a mistrust...
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"Suspicious Minds" is a song about being trapped in a mistrusting and dysfunctional relationship. Originally, and most notably, a hit for Elvis Presley in 1969, "Suspicious Minds" was widely regarded as the single that jump-started Presley's career after his successful '68 Comeback Special. It was his eighteenth and last number-one single in the United States. Rolling Stone later ranked it #91 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
Written by Mark James aka Francis Zambon in 1968, who was also co-writer of "Always On My Mind", which Elvis would later record, the song first was recorded and released by James. Even though James' recording initially was not commercially successful, Elvis decided he could turn it into a hit on reviewing the song as presented to him by Memphis Soul producer Chips Moman, owner of American Sound Studio, in 1969.
Presley recorded "Suspicious Minds" along with at least another two hit singles—"In the Ghetto" and "Kentucky Rain"—in the so-called "Memphis sessions" of February 1969 at American Sound Studio. He first performed the song at the Las Vegas Hilton on July 31, 1969, and the 45 rpm single was released in the fall. It reached number one in the United States in the week of November 1 and stayed there for that week. It would be Presley's final number-one single in the U.S. before his death ("The Wonder of You" in 1970, "Way Down" in 1977 and a posthumous remixed release of "A Little Less Conversation" in 2002 all hit number one on the British charts, followed by re-issues of several previous chart toppers in 2005). Mark James' version of the song appears as the last song on the 1970 record entitled Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head by B. J. Thomas.
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Johannes Brahms, 2 Lieder
Juchhe! : „Wie ist doch die Erde so schön, so ...
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Johannes Brahms, 2 Lieder
Juchhe! : „Wie ist doch die Erde so schön, so schön!", Op 6#4
„Wie bist du, meine Königin", Op. 32#9
Paul David Rohrbaugh, baritone
David Montgomery, piano
The Century Club Concerts, San Francisco, CA 1980
TEXTS:
Wie ist doch die Erde so schön, so schön!
Das wissen die Vögelein;
Sie heben ihr leicht Gefieder,
Und singen so fröhliche Lieder
In den blauen Himmel hinein.
Wie ist doch die Erde so schön, so schön!
Das wissen die Flüss' und [die] Seen;
Sie malen im klaren Spiegel
Die Gärten und Städt' und Hügel,
Und die Wolken, die drüber gehn!
Und Sänger und Maler [wissen's],
Und es wissen's viel andere Leut'!
Und [wer es] nicht malt, der singt es,
Und wer's nicht singt, dem klingt es
[In dem Herzen] vor lauter Freud'!
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Wie bist du, meine Königin,
Durch sanfte Güte wonnevoll!
Du lächle nur, Lenzdüfte wehn
Durch mein Gemüte, wonnevoll!
Frisch aufgeblühter Rosen Glanz,
Vergleich ich ihn dem deinigen?
Ach, über alles, was da blüht,
Ist deine Blüte wonnevoll!
Durch tote Wüsten wandle hin,
Und grüne Schatten breiten sich,
Ob fürchterliche Schwüle dort
Ohn Ende brüte, wonnevoll!
Laß mich vergehn in deinem Arm!
Es ist ihm ja selbst der Tod,
Ob auch die herbste Todesqual
Die Brust durchwüte, wonnevoll!
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Ulli Nöckes von Bödefeld
Herzliche Grüsse aus Nürnberg
Addi
Cheers,
Tobias
Alles Gute
Rico
Daniel