Abracadabra By STEVE MILLER BAND (Cover)

Abracadabra By STEVE MILLER BAND (Cover)
Released as the main single from Abracadabra in June 1982, it became a number-one hit on the United States Billboard Hot 100 chart, and also hit number two on the UK charts. It followed Survivor's "Eye of the Tiger" (from Rocky III) on the Hot 100, and preceded Chicago's "Hard to Say I'm Sorry". After Chicago's ballad ended its two-week stay at number one, "Abracadabra" re-assumed the top spot on the U.S. charts for an additional week on September 25. John Cougar's "Jack and Diane" dislodged the Steve Miller Band's final number-one hit from the top on October 2.

This song holds the record for the biggest drop out of the Top 10/Top 40 on the Hot 100. In the fall of 1982, as the song was moving down the chart, "Abracadabra" fell 38 spots from #10 to #48 in one week.

The song is listed at #70 on Billboard's Greatest Songs of all time. (Courtesy of wikipedia)

Lyrics:

I heat up, I can't cool down
You got me spinnin'
'Round and 'round
'Round and 'round and 'round it goes
Where it stops nobody knows

***********
Every time you call my name
I heat up like a burnin' flame
Burnin' flame full of desire
Kiss me baby, let the fire get higher

Abra-abra-cadabra
I want to reach out and grab ya
Abra-abra-cadabra
Abracadabra

You make me hot, you make me sigh
You make me laugh, you make me cry
Keep me burnin' for your love
With the touch of a velvet glove

Repeat chorus

I feel the magic in your caress
I feel magic when I touch your dress
Silk and satin, leather and lace
Black panties with an angel's face
I see magic in your eyes
I hear the magic in your sighs
Just when I think I'm gonna get away
I hear those words that you always say

Repeat chorus
Repeat ***** verse
Repeat chorus

Tab/Chords: Available upon request.

Incomplete list of of other artists who've recorded this song: Sugar Ray, Mike Chapman Band

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[kitsuhiko]

wow. should not be singing.

[Canstey84]

wow, should not try type in English.

[redfenderguy]

sing octive higher

[Canstey84]

I can't, that would be a tenor, I'm a soprano.  A soprano with no vocal range.

[mahajohn]

Cool take on the song, but if you wanna get the chorus timed perfectly, try coming in at least a beat-ish earlier (Steve Miller can really swing it). It makes the descending melody really work over the chord changes. The first "ab" should come in at the last pulse of the V chord. Also, the melody is so much more effective when the V chord is actually the #9 (i.e. the "Jimi Hendrix chord") throughout the song. The song's quirky quality is diminished without that chord. Just my opinion.

[spermatodj]

muy bueno viejo, salu2.

[Sylvia1089]

what your using to record sounds good, what are you using haha? the guitar sounds great too.

[nikita483]

this sound veeeery sexy somehow :D I don't think you need to sing an octave higher, I really like your deep yoice

[MrSteviebaker]

Oh no !!

[laitaliaj]

@Canstey84 very nice, but @redfenderguy was right, also soprano is a female voice, maybe baritone.

[nightrain766]

Your timing for the chorus is off, but your take is really great on the song..I like it!

[thewho311]

@kitsuhiko wow should not be such an asshole hahaha

[lanteigne9]

man that was pretty good :p

[JeremiasMusic]

@Canstey84 I don't know bro, you seem to sing in this range with such ease, I bet if you cut loose and sang real loud you could hit it! Sounds good.

[playabrisamar]

Excellent