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= Don't Hold Back Your Love =

"Don't Hold Back Your Love" is a song written by Richard Page, Gerald O'Brien, and David Tyson. It was originally recorded by American pop rock duo Daryl Hall & John Oates on their fourteenth studio album Change of Season (1990). It was released as the album's second single in December 1990, and reached No. 4 on the US Billboard Adult Contemporary chart and No. 10 in Canada.

In the same year, it was covered by Australian singer Daryl Braithwaite on his album Rise (1990) and released as it's fourth single in August 1991. This version reached No. 55 in his native Australia.

Background and recording
It was released in 7" vinyl, CD, and cassette formats.

The B-side to the single was the title album track "Change of Season", written by John Oates and Bob Mayo and produced by Tom "T-Bone" Wolk.

Music video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owiSNj3Zd7A&ab_channel=hallandoatesVEVO

1990–1991 International version

 * 1) "Don't Hold Back Your Love" – 4:39
 * 2) "Change of Season" – 5:42

Personnel

 * Daryl Hall – Lead vocals
 * John Oates – Backing vocals, electric and acoustic guitars
 * David Tyson – Keyboards, bass, production
 * Buzz Feiten – Guitars
 * Michael Thompson – Guitars
 * Pat Mastelotto – Drums
 * Wendy Fraser – Backing vocals
 * Portia Griffin – Backing vocals

Background and recording
The B-side to the single was a live recording of the songs "One Summer" and "Sugar Train" at the Melbourne Concert Hall in June 1991. Both songs were originally recorded and released as singles from Braithwaite's previous studio album Edge (1988).

It was released as a CD single in Australia.

It was included on Braithwaite's later compilation albums Six Moons (1994), The Essential Daryl Braithwaite (2007), and Days Go By (2017).

Music video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIUvCoH08ZU&ab_channel=krastyn

Track listing

 * 1) "Don't Hold Back Your Love" – 5:09
 * 2) "One Summer / Sugar Train" (live) – ?

Personnel

 * Daryl Braithwaite – Lead vocals
 * Simon Hussey – Keyboards, electric piano, drum machine, production
 * Jef Scott – Electric guitar, Dobro acoustic guitar
 * Andy Cichon – Bass
 * John Watson – Drums
 * Scott Griffiths – Keyboards, piano, Hammond organ
 * Alex Pertout – Percussion

Daryl Braithwaite version
= Rubber Band (The Trammps song) = "Rubber Band" is a song by American soul band The Trammps, originally released on their second studio album The Legendary Zing Album (1975). Written by group member Ronnie Baker with Allan Felder and Norman Harris, the song was only released as a single through Pye Records in the United Kingdom, where it failed to chart.

The song has since been widely sampled, most notably by The Game on his 2005 single "Hate It or Love It" (featuring 50 Cent). It also features in the 2013 video game Grand Theft Auto V, where it appears on the in-game radio station The Lowdown 91.1.

Composition
The song is written in time in the key of A-flat minor and has a moderately slow tempo of around 98 beats per minute.

After two verses around mark 1:48, the song breaks into a roughly 2-minute instrumental before concluding with the repeated chorus.

Lyrically, the song refers to a fractured romantic relationship in which the narrator has been mistreated by his lover. The narrator expresses the strain of the relationship by singing the refrain "You stretch me out like a rubber band / You got my life in the palm of your hand."

Release
"Rubber Band" was included as the sixth track on The Legendary Zing Album (1975), the second song on the second side of the record. It was released as the last of four singles from the album, following "Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart", "Sixty Minute Man", and "Hold Back the Night". However, unlike the other singles, "Rubber Band" was exclusively released in the United Kingdom by Pye Records on June 1, 1975, and did not make any major chart appearance.

Samples

 * "Hate It or Love It" by The Game (featuring 50 Cent), from The Documentary (2005)
 * "MJB da MVP" by Mary J. Blige (featuring 50 Cent), from The Breakthrough (2005)
 * "Hate It or Love It" by Clipse and Re-Up Gang (featuring Pharrell Williams), from We Got It 4 Cheap, Vol. 2 (2005)
 * "Dilla Says Go" by J Dilla, from Donuts (2006)
 * "Good Mourning" by R-Swift, from Soap Box (2008)
 * "American Woman" by Mac Stanton (featuring Maria Mendez), from Awesome (2020)

= CallMeKevin = Kevin O'Reilly (born November 10, 1993), better known by his online pseudonym CallMeKevin, is an Irish YouTuber.

= If I Only Knew (song) =

"If I Only Knew" is a song written by J. Mendelson and B. Nitze and originally recorded by the American experimental hip-hop band Rise Robots Rise in 1992, released on their eponymous debut album.

The song was covered by Welsh singer Tom Jones for his 1994 album The Lead And How To Swing It. Jones' version reached No. 4 on the US Dance Club Songs chart, No. 11 in the United Kingdom and No. 13 in the Netherlands. It also charted in Austria, Canada, and Germany, whilst in Australia it was the ninth-ranked song on the Triple J Hottest 100 of 1994. This version was also included on the soundtrack of the 2003 Coen brothers romantic comedy film Intolerable Cruelty.

Year-end charts
= Charles Wallert =

Charles Thomas Wallert, Jr. (born June 15, 1948) is an American music producer, composer and songwriter based in New York City. He has worked with various artists including O.C. Smith, George Benson, the Main Ingredient and Chuck Jackson.

Early life
Charles Thomas Wallert, Jr. was born in Brooklyn, New York on June 15, 1948 to a Roman Catholic family of Italian descent, one of two children of Charles Thomas Wallert, Sr. and Theresa Wallert (née Russano) with his sister Sally. He was confirmed in the name of St. Joseph and remains a devout Catholic. Charles Sr. served in the United States Army as part of the First Occupational Force in Japan during World War II.

He developed an interest in music at an early age, often imitating Johnnie Ray at his local ice cream parlour as a child. He began playing guitar at age five, learning to read music “before he could even read English”. As a seven-year-old he had his first paid gig as an Elvis impersonator. He formed a band in high school which played several bookings, notably at the 1964 New York World’s Fair; around this time he ceased focusing on music.

Wallert attended St. John’s Preparatory School in Danvers, Massachusetts where he forged an interest in football. He played as a quarterback and caught the attention of “multiple college and professional coaches” and attended a football camp that then-Kansas City Chiefs coach Hank Stram was running. He earned a scholarship at the Central Connecticut State Blue Devils, but his football career was cut short due to injury. Wallert later attended and graduated from St. John’s University in New York City.

1970s
After seeing an Elvis Presley show in Las Vegas in 1972, Wallert met producer Phil Spector, who convinced him to join the music industry.

Wallert began his career as a music producer in 1976, producing the soul single “You Mean the World to Me Sweetheart” by Ronnie Limar. That same year he also worked on “No, No, No, My Friend (You’re Wrong So Do It Again)” by Bronx-based disco group Devoshun.

In 1977 he produced the track “Do Bad” by actor and singer Donnie Burks and “Chase Your Blues Away” by former Buddah Records group Funkhouse Express; he would later collaborate with Funkhouse Express again on “Day By Day” in 1979.

In 1978, alongside bassist Michael Forman, he formed the disco assemblage East Coast to record two songs under Family Records – “The Rock” (1978) and “Meat the Beat” (1979). The former would later achieve wider recognition in 2001 when it was sampled by French producer Guillaume Atlan for the song “Starlight” by Atlan’s project the Supermen Lovers.

1980s–1990s
In 1980, Wallert began his longtime partnership with musician O.C. Smith, who originally found fame with his 1968 recording of “Little Green Apples”. Wallert produced Smith’s album Dreams Come True (1980), which included the singles “Baby Come Back”, “Dreams Come True”, and “Nothing But the Best”. The album projected Smith back into the national charts and revived his career. He later collaborated with Smith on his 1985 single “What’cha Gonna Do”, “You’re the First, My Last, My Everything” (1986) and the critically-acclaimed beach music song “Brenda” (1987). Wallert would continue to work with Smith throughout the 1990s until the latter’s death in 2001.

In 1989 Wallert co-wrote and produced the single “I Just Wanna Love You” by soul group the Main Ingredient; he later worked with Main Ingredient member Cuba Gooding Sr. on his 1993 solo singles “Meant To Be In Love” and “My One and Only Love”. That same year he produced the album Love X 3, a collaboration of O.C. Smith and Gooding with R&B singer Chuck Jackson. Wallert had met Jackson at the Third Annual Beach Music Awards and collaborated to record “How Long Have You Been Loving Me” on Carolina Records.

Wallert also produced George Benson’s 1993 album Love Remembers, which included the single “Kiss and Make Up”. He has since maintained a strong friendship with Benson.

In 1998, Wallert collaborated with Jackson again on his 1998 album Smooth, Smooth Jackson for Wave Entertainment which coincided with the release of the Wallert-composed singles “If I Let Myself Go” (a duet with Dionne Warwick) and “What Goes Around Comes Around”. In the same year he also produced the album My Love Will Be There by gospel-soul singer Lisa Molina.

2000s–present
On his own label, Bluewater Recordings, Wallert produced several albums and co-wrote several songs for North Carolina beach music band The Embers. This included the 2004 album Beach Music Super Collaboration Album and 2008’s The Show Must Go On, as well as the single “The Last Time I’m Saying Goodbye” (2007). Wallert also produced the album My Daughter (2008) by pianist Darryl Tookes.

With Cuba Gooding Sr., Wallert wrote and recorded the song “Never Give Up” on the Bluewater label, which was debuted by Gooding at the 2009 presidential inauguration; the two had recently worked together on the Beach Music Super Collaboration Album, which had Gooding singing the Wallert composition “Meant To Be In Love”.

Since Wallert dissolved Bluewater in 2013, he has worked with Scheherazade Recordings and Avatar Studios.

Personal life and philanthropy
In 2011 Wallert became the chairman of the Camphill Special School’s Diversity Fund, which provides scholarships for children with intellectual disabilities. He was a founding member of the Joe Namath Foundation in 2017, a charity that funds children’s health and neurological research. In 2022 he was named Head of the Arts at Ayuda, a non-profit organisation that advocates for the rights of immigrants in the United States.

Since 2015 Wallert has worked on an autobiographical screenplay on his life entitled We Made Them Dance, featuring various artists he has collaborated with. Developer of The Temptations mini-series Robert Johnson and music author Will Romano continue to work on the screenplay.

Wallert is lifelong friends with footballer Joe Namath, whom he met at Hank Stram’s football camp when the two were teenagers. He was a stakeholder in Namath’s controversial Upper East Side restaurant and nightclub Bachelors III from 1970 until its closure. Wallert is also a longtime friend of actor Chazz Palminteri.

He is a fan of both the New York Giants and New York Jets football teams.

He and his wife, Kathleen, have had two sons – Ryan Quinn and Anthony – and two daughters – Lara and Christy. He is cousins with businessman Frank Bisignano.

Albums

 * Dreams Come True (1980) – O.C. Smith
 * Love X 3 (1993) – O.C. Smith, Cuba Gooding Sr., Chuck Jackson
 * Love Remembers (1993) – George Benson
 * Smooth, Smooth Jackson (1998) – Chuck Jackson
 * My Love Will Be There (1998) – Lisa Molina
 * Beach Music Super Collaboration Album (2004) – The Embers
 * The Show Must Go On (2008) – The Embers
 * My Daughter (2008) – Darryl Tookes

= Seemed Like a Good Idea (At the Time) (John Farnham song) = "Seemed Like a Good Idea (At the Time)" is a song by Australian singer John Farnham from his 1993 studio album Then Again. It was written by Farnham, Ross Wilson and producer Ross Fraser and released as the lead single from the album on September 5, 1993.

The song reached No. 59 in Germany and peaked at No. 16 in Farnham's native Australia, being listed as the 75th best-selling single of 1993 in the country. It was the only single released from Then Again that reached the Top 20 in Australia.

Personnel

 * John Farnham – vocals
 * Phil Buckle – guitars
 * Ross Fraser – keyboards
 * Michael Hegerty – bass guitar
 * David Hirschfelder – keys
 * Lindsay Field – backing vocals

= Wanna Get With U =

"Wanna Get With U" (also released as "I Wanna Get With U") is a song written by Aqil Davidson, Aaron Hall, and Teddy Riley and recorded by the American R&B group Guy. It was produced by Riley and originally released as the lead single from their second studio album The Future (1990) on October 9, 1990. It peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart in the United States and also reached the Top 30 on the Dance Club Songs chart and in the Netherlands.

Personnel

 * Teddy Riley – lead vocals, keyboards, production, programming
 * Aaron Hall – backing vocals
 * Damion Hall – backing vocals
 * Wreckx-n-Effect – backing vocals
 * David "DJ" Wynn & Steve "Cut Technician" Thomas – scratching