BRENDA LEE
BY REQUEST
(Decca DL-74509)
May 18/1964
Produced by Owen Bradley
Recorded:
Feb 20/1963, Columbia Recording Studio, Nashville (10,12)
Apr 9/1963, Columbia Recording Studio, Nashville (9)
Sept 23/1963, Columbia Recording Studio, Nashville (1,2,3,8)
Sept 24/1963, Columbia Recording Studio, Nashville (4,5,6,11)
Oct 25/1963, Columbia Recording Studio, Nashville (7)
1.
MORE
(Norman Newell - Riziero Ortolani - Nino Oliviero)
« © '63 Cam Cine TV Music, ASCAP »
More than the greatest love the world has known
This is the love I'll give to you alone
More than the simple words I try to say
I only live to love you more each day
More than you'll ever know my arms long to hold you so
My life will be in your keeping waking sleeping laughing weeping
Longer than always is a long long time
But far beyond forever you'll be mine
I know I never lived before and my heart is very sure
No one else could love you more
[ strings ]
Yes I I know I never lived before and my heart is very sure
No one else could love you more
Love you more love you more
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2.
DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES
(Johnny Mercer - Henry Mancini)
« © '62 Johnny Mercer Foundation, ASCAP / WB Music, ASCAP »
The days of wine and roses
Laugh and run away like a child at play
Through the meadowland toward a closing door
A door marked never more that wasn't there before
The lonely night discloses
Just a passing breeze filled with memories
Of the golden smile that introduced me to
The days of wine and roses and you
(The lonely night discloses)
Just a passing breeze filled with memories
Of the golden smile that introduced me to
The days of wine and roses and you
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3.
DANKE SCHOEN
(Bert Kaempfert - Milt Gabler - Kutz Schwabach)
« © '63 Screen Gems Music, BMI »
Danke schoen darling danke schoen thank you for all the joy and pain
Picture shows second balcony
Was the place we'd meet second seat go Dutch treat you were sweet
Danke schoen darling danke schoen save those lies darling don't explain
I recall Central Park in fall
How I tore my dress what a mess I confess that's not all
Danke schoen darling danke schoeh thank you for walks down lovers lane
I can see hearts carved on a tree
Letters entertwined for all time yours and mine that was fine
Danke schoen darling danke schoen I wanna thank you for seeing me again
Though we go we go our separate ways
Still the mem'ry stays for always my heart says danke schoen
Danke schoen my darling danke schoen
I say thank you for thank you for seeing me again
Though we go we gonna go our separate ways
But still the mem'ry stays for always my heart says danke schoen
Danke schoen auf diedersehen danke schoen
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4.
TAMMY
(Jay Livingston - Ray Evans)
« © '60 Jay Livingston Music, ASCAP / St Angelo Music, ASCAP »
I hear the cottonwoods whispering above
Tammy Tammy Tammy's in love
The ole whootie owl whootie-hoo's to the dove
Tammy Tammy Tammy's in love
Does my darling feel what I feel when he comes near
My heart beats so joyfully you'd think that he could hear
Wish I knew if he knew what I'm dreaming of
Tammy Tammy Tammy's in love
[ strings ]
Tammy Tammy Tammy's in love
[ strings ]
Tammy Tammy Tammy's in love
Does my darling feel what I feel...
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5.
WHY DON'T YOU BELIEVE ME
(Lew Douglas - Roy Rodde - King Laney)
« © '52 Music Sales, ASCAP / PolyGram Int, ASCAP »
(Please tell me why tell me why)
Why don't you believe me it's you I adore
Forever and ever can I promise more
I've told you so often the way that I care
Why don't you believe me it just isn't fair
Here is a heart that is lonely here is a heart you can take
Here is a heart for you only that you can keep or break
How else can I tell you what more can I say
Why don't you believe me I love only you
[ strings ]
Why don't you believe me I love only you
(Please tell me why tell me why)
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6.
I LOVE YOU BECAUSE
(Leon Payne)
« © '49 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
(I love you because you understand dear)
Every single thing I try to do
You're always there to lend a halping hand dear
I love you most of all because you're you
No matter what the world may say about me
I know your love will always see me through
(I love you for the way you never doubt me)
But most of all I love you cause you're you
(I love you because my future's brighter
The door to happiness you've opened wide)
No matter what the world may say about me
Cause I know your love will always see me through
(I love you for a hundred thousand reasons)
But most of all I love you cause you're you
(I love you most of all because you're you)
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7.
AS USUAL
(Alex Zanetis)
« © '64 Jack O Diamonds Publications, BMI »
The sun comes up and brings the dawn as usual
When I awake I'll find you're gone as usual
But I can't find a way to let this crazy heart of mine forget
I pretend you're still beside me as usual
Each evening I take a walk as usual
I make believe that we still talk as usual
People always stop and stare I guess they just don't see you there
Don't they know you'll always be right here as usual
Today I looked into my mirror as usual
I told myself that you're still here as usual
And as I stood there telling lies the tears began to fill my eyes
Cause I know I'm only fooling myself as usual
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8.
BLUE VELVET
(Bernie Wayne - Lee Morris)
« © '63 Songs Of PolyGram, BMI »
(Blue velvet oh oh)
I wore blue velvet bluer than velvet was the night
Softer than satin was the light from the stars
I wore blue velvet bluer than velvet were my eyes
Warmer than May my tender sighs love was ours
Ours the love I held tightly feelings the rapture grow
Like a flame burning brightly but when he left gone was the glow
Of blue velvet but in my heart there'll always be
Precious and warm a memory through the years
And I still can see blue velvet through my tears
(Blue velvet oh oh)
But in my heart there'll always be
Precious and warm a memory through the years
And I still can see blue velvet through my tears
(Blue velvet uh huh)
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9.
MY WHOLE WORLD IS FALLING DOWN
(Bill Anderson - Jerry Crutchfield)
« © '64 Johnny Bienstock Music, BMI / Songs Of Universal, BMI »
My whole world is a falling down falling down falling down
My whole world is a falling down I'm losing my baby
You told me that your love for me was true
Said you'd love your whole life through
But now you're asking me to set you free
You found somebody you love more than me
My whole world is a falling down...
I miss your loving that was so fine
I need it I need it all the time
But I still love you in the same old way
That I'm losing you a little more every day
My whole world is a falling down...
My whole world is a falling down...
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10.
I WONDER
(Cecil Gant - Raymond Leveen)
« © '63 MCA Music, ASCAP »
I wonder my little darling
Where can you be this moonlit night
Are you holding someone tight I wonder
My heart's my heart is aching
And I'm a fool I'm a fool to let it go on breaking
Maybe I'll awaken find that I'm mistaken but I wonder
Baby since we're through I've been through lover's lane
Ah but in my heart there's only pain
You went travelling but will it last
While I'm travelling I'm travelling I'm travelling nowhere fast
Sweetheart I wonder where where where where little baby
If this new love dies where will you be
Will your heart come running back to me I just wonder
Baby since we're through I've been through lover's lane
Ah but in my heart there's only pain
You went travelling but will it last
While I'm travelling I'm getting nowhere fast
Sweetheart I wonder yes I wonder little baby
Will you think of me again today
Though I may be a million miles away I wonder
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11.
I'M CONFESSIN' (THAT I LOVE YOU)
(Don Dougherty - Ellis Reynolds - Al J. Neiburg)
« © '52 Bourne Music »
I'm confessing that I love you tell me do you love me too
Yes I'm confessing that I need you honest I do
In your eyes I read such strange things but your lips they deny they're true
Will your answer really change things making me blue
I'm afraid someday I'm afraid you'll leave me saying can't we still be friends
If you go you know you know you'll grieve me all my life on you on you depends
So am I guessing that you love me dreaming dreams of you in vain
Yes I'm confessing that I love you over again
[ sax ]
Now am I guessing am I guessing that you love me
Dreaming dreams of you in vain
I'm confessing that I love you over again
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12.
GRASS IS GREENER
(Barry Mann - Mike Anthony)
« © '63 Screen Gems Music, BMI »
I had the world when you were mine but I threw it away
I thought the grass was greener there where I wandered one day
I left your arms for someone else but he was never true
I thought the grass was greener there now here am I so blue
Now another another holds your hand
And there's nothing there's nothing left for me
And it hurts so much to see her stand
Where I once used to be
It breaks my heart when you walk by so near and yet so far
And the grass is really greener there for that's just where you are
I know the grass is greener there for that's just where you are
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