“Still of the Night” is a song by the Rock band Whitesnake. It was released as the first single from their self titled 1987 album.
“Still Of The Night”
In the Still of the Night I hear the wolf howl, honey Sniffing around your door In the Still of the Night I feel my heart beating heavy Telling me I gotta have more
In the shadow of night I see the full moon rise Telling me what’s in store, My heart start aching My body start a shaking And I can’t take no more, no, no
Now I just wanna get close to you An’ taste your love so sweet And I just wanna make love to you Feel your body heat…
In the Still of the Night… In the Still of the Night… Over here baby…
In the heat of the day I hang my head down low And hide my face from the sun Through the light of the day Until the evening time I’m waiting for the night to come
In the Still of the Night, In the cool moonlight, I feel my heart is aching In the Still of the Night…
Tell me here baby
In the Still of the Night I hear the wolf howl, honey Sniffing around your door… In the Still of the Night I feel my heart beating heavy Telling me I gotta have more…
Now I just wanna get close to you An’ taste your love so sweet And I just wanna make love to you Feel your body heat.
In the Still of the Night…
Still of the Night, Still of the Night, Still of the Night…
Writer(s): David Coverdale, John Sykes AZLyrics W Whitesnake Lyrics
It is not often that all versions of a song are great. However, Whitesnake’s -Here I go again certainly has 3 great versions of the song.
“Hang on” I here you say” Are there not only 2 versions of that song> The 1987 album version and the radio edit version?”
No, the original version was actually released 40 years ago in 1982, it was on the album Saints and Sinners. The lyrics are even slightly different, In the 1982 version they use the word hobo instead of drifter.
“Here I Go Again”
I don’t know where I’m going But I sure know where I’ve been Hanging on the promises In songs of yesterday
And I’ve made up my mind I ain’t wasting no more time
Here I go again Here I go again
Though I keep searching for an answer I never seem to find what I’m looking for Oh, Lord, I pray You give me strength to carry on
‘Cause I know what it means To walk along the lonely street of dreams
Here I go again on my own Goin’ down the only road I’ve ever known Like a hobo I was born to walk alone
But I’ve made up my mind I ain’t wasting no more time
Just another heart in need of rescue Waiting on love’s sweet charity I am gonna hold on For the rest of my days
‘Cause I know what it means To walk along the lonely street of dreams
Here I go again on my own Goin’ down the only road I’ve ever known Like a hobo I was born to walk alone And I’ve made up my mind I ain’t wasting no more time
But here I go again Here I go again Here I go again Here I go
And I’ve made up my mind I ain’t wasting no more time
Here I go again on my own Goin’ down the only road I’ve ever known Like a hobo I was born to walk alone ‘Cause I know what it means To walk along the lonely street of dreams
Here I go again on my own Goin’ down the only road I’ve ever known Like a hobo I was born to walk alone I have made up my mind I ain’t wasting no more time
But here I go again Here I go again Here I go again Here I go Here I go again.
When you hear “Love is all” you are probably more reminded of something the Beatles may have done rather then a bunch of Hard Rock and Heavy Metal artists. Yet that is exactly who were involved in the creation of this beautiful, colourful even fairytale like tale and melody.
The song was released in 1974 and was written and composed by Jon Lord of Deep Purple and Eddie Hardin of the Spencer Davis group. The song was taken from the concept album “The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper’s Feast” which featured artists like David Coverdale(Whitesnake) Glenn Hughes(Deep Purple & Black Sabbath) Les Binks(Judas Priest) Jon Lord(Deep Purple) and many more.
In 1973 Roger Glover left Deep Purple because of work pressure and tensions between him and Ritchie Blackmore. Together with Jon Lord he worked on a solo project. Their plan was to make a rock opera based on William Plomer and Alan Aldridge’s book The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper’s Feast , in itself based on the eponymous poem by British historian William Roscoe.
Eddie Hardin wrote the song Love Is All based on a song featured in The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper’s Feast named Love’s all you need, which was inspired by The Beatles’ song All You Need Is Love (1967). The song was sung by Ronnie James Dio, although the single was credited to Glover. The B-side was Old Blind Mole/Magician Moth.
I always presumed that the song had been a global hit, but it only reached the no 1 position in the Dutch and Belgian charts.
The song came with an animated music video featuring a guitar playing frog gathering animals in the forest for the upcoming ball. The animation was created by the Halas and Batchelor studio and one of the animators was Harold Whitaker. The video received a lot of airplay over the decades, particularly as a fill-in during technical difficulties, such as on the French TV channel Antenne 2, and in the United States in children’s TV programs such as The Great Space Coaster and Nickelodeon morning shows. Those random airings, together with the psychedelic tone of the clip and the lack of subtitles, made it very popular amongst young viewers.
In 1980, the video was featured on the Australian music show Countdown, and the song entered the Australian Top 10.The video was also used regularly as an interstitial program on Australia’s ABC TV.
The song was covered by Sacha Distel in 1976. In 2002, Flemish singer Dana Winner released a cover version. Other artists who covered the song have been Gonzales (2008), Keedz (2010) and Playing for Change (2013).
it is not often I do a piece on technology, in fact this is the first time and it probably will be last time, but this device has had an impact on my life.And today marks the 43rd anniversary of its first release.
The transistor radio was a technological marvel that put music literally into consumers’ hands in the mid-1950s. It was cheap, it was reliable and it was portable,
but it could never even approximate the sound quality of a record being played on a home stereo. It was, however, the only technology available to on-the-go music lovers until the Sony Corporation sparked a revolution in personal electronics with the introduction of the first personal stereo cassette player. A device as astonishing on first encounter as the cellular phone or digital camera would later be, the Sony Walkman went on sale for the very first time on July 1, 1979.
The Sony Walkman didn’t represent a breakthrough in technology so much as it did a breakthrough in imagination. Every element of the Walkman was already in production or testing as part of some other device when Sony’s legendary chairman, Masaru Ibuka, made a special request in early 1979.
Ibuka was a music lover who traveled frequently, and he was already in the habit of carrying one of his company’s “portable” stereo tape recorders with him on international flights. But the Sony TC-D5 was a heavy device that was in no way portable by modern standards, so Ibuka asked his then-deputy Norio Ohga if he could cobble together something better. Working with the company’s existing Pressman product—a portable, monaural tape recorder that was popular with journalists—Ohga had a playback-only stereo device rigged up in time for Ibuka’s next trans-Pacific flight.
Even though this proto-Walkman required large, earmuff-like headphones and custom-made batteries (which, of course, ran out on Ibuka midway through his flight), it impressed the Sony chairman tremendously with its sound quality and portability. Many objections were raised internally when Ibuka began his push to create a marketable version of the device, the biggest of which was conceptual: Would anyone actually buy a cassette device that was not for recording but only for playback? Ibuka’s simple response—”Don’t you think a stereo cassette player that you can listen to while walking around is a good idea?”—proved to be one of the great understatements in business history.
After a breakneck development phase of only four months, Sony engineers had a reliable product ready for market at 30,000 Yen (approximately US$150 in 1979 dollars) and available before the start of summer vacation for Japanese students—both critical targets established at the outset of development. The initial production run of 30,000 units looked to be too ambitious after one month of lackluster sales (only 3,000 were sold in July 1979). But after an innovative consumer-marketing campaign in which Sony representatives simply approached pedestrians on the streets of Tokyo and gave them a chance to listen to the Walkman, the product took off, selling out available stocks before the end of August and signaling the beginning of one of Sony’s greatest success stories.
I remember getting a Sony Sports Walkman in the mid eighties it was the top of the range technology at the time.
No longer was I confined at home to listen to my favorite rock tunes. I got be a “rock star” anywhere I wanted. Ignore all those who laughed at me while I was playing air guitar on my way to school or town.I didn’t mind because I knew they envied me because I had a Sony Sports Walkman.
This is a tune of an album I played a lot on the Walkman. Whitesnake,album:Slide it in, Track, Love ain’t no stranger.
History of Sorts 
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