Stuart Brawley (born February 18, 1971) is a Canadian musician and Juno Award nominated record producer and mixer based in Los Angeles. Brawley was nominated for a 2009 Juno award for Producer of the Year Award for his work on Emmy Rossum's album, Inside Out. Brawley also co-wrote Don Henley's #1 single Taking You Home.
Brawley co-wrote Don Henley's #1 single Taking You Home, recognized by BMI as one of the most played songs of 2000, staying on the Billboard charts for over 80 weeks. Brawley was nominated for a 2009 Juno for Producer of the Year for his work on Emmy Rossum's debut album, Inside Out. The songs showcased eclectic and intense vocal arrangements and deeply personal songs, which Brawley co-wrote with Rossum. The debut single Slow Me Down reached #2 on the iTunes charts and became one of the most viewed music videos on the Universal Music YouTube Channel.
Brawley has produced, written, engineered, or mixed hits for Michael Jackson, Don Henley, Brandy, Cher, Lenka, Emmy Rossum, Jason Reeves, Celine Dion, NSYNC, Josh Groban, Nick Lachey, Lucy Woodward, Between The Trees, Aaron Barnhart, Emm Gryner, Teddy Geiger, The Matrix, Vera, Mindy Gledhill, and many more.
Class Clown is the fourth album released by American comedian George Carlin. It was recorded on May 27, 1972 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California, and released in September.
At the time Carlin was relatively well known for tame satirical routines about the entertainment industry. His previous album FM & AM released the same year, showed that he was already drifting towards counter-culture icon, but Class Clown proved a landmark. Besides musings about his youth, the album featured strongly directed remarks against the Vietnam War and his attachment to taboo topics. The album contains "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television", which became the focus of government harassment in the year that followed, and, perhaps not coincidentally, Carlin's most famous calling card. Carlin would continue to explore the use of profanity for the rest of his career. Ironically, while this skit prevents the album from being Carlin's only profanity-free one since 1971, it also marks the first time Carlin has used the word "fuck" in any of his recordings.
Love is a friend of mine
It tells me to keep my head
When all those around me are
Losing theirs instead
You know me well
I do it all on my own
I wanted to turn around
And make my house a home
For the king and the queen
(And live in never, neverland)
I know they're waiting for me
(But the hourglass is out of sand)
To be the class clown
When I was a younger man
Got used to taking it on the chin
I fight when I'm falling down
Get back up again
The time has come
To put away childish things
And fly like a mockingbird
Angels spread their wings
You're wearing the frown
Feeling so down
And still, you paint the town red
You're waking the dead
Making you bed to lie next to me
There's a place to go when I'm feelin' low
That nobody else will ever know
When you're on the ropes in the final round
That's how it feels to be the class clown
Will it ever go away?