Cherrelle
Cheryl Anne Norton, better known by her stage name Cherrelle, (born October 13, 1958) is an American R&B singer who gained fame in the 1980s. Her signature hits include "I Didn't Mean to Turn You On", "Where Do I Run To", "Everything I Miss at Home", and duets with R&B singer Alexander O'Neal such as "Saturday Love" and "Never Knew Love Like This."
Biography
Cherrelle began her career working with jazz/R&B artists Norman Connors and Michael Henderson, as well as touring with Luther Vandross. After Tabu Records founder Clarence Avant heard her demo, he signed her to Tabu Records in 1983. Cherrelle decided on her stage name after a boss from a previous job hollered "Cher-relle, you're late again!"
In 1984, under the production of Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, Cherrelle released her debut album, Fragile. It featured her first R&B top ten single, "I Didn't Mean to Turn You On". That song (with a music video homage to the film King Kong, featuring Cherrelle as the beast's love interest) was covered about a year later by pop singer Robert Palmer on his 1985 album Riptide. It was also covered by Mariah Carey for her 2001 soundtrack album Glitter using the same instrumental track.
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Cherrelle
ALBUMS
- Greatest Hits released: 2005
- The Best of Cherrelle released: 2005
- The Right Time released: 1999
- The Woman I Am released: 1991
- Affair released: 1988
- High Priority released: 1985
- Fragile released: 1984
Greatest Hits
Released 2005- I Didn't Mean to Turn You On
- Affair
- Everything I Miss at Home
- Where Do I Run To
- Will You Satisfy?
- Never Knew Love Like This (feat. Alexander O'Neal)
- Saturday Love (feat. Alexander O'Neal)
- When You Look in My Eyes
- What More Can I Do for You
- You Look Good to Me
- Fragile... Handle With Care
- Artificial Heart
- Like I Will
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Gee Whiz
by: Buck 65Tell me what is it is, Gee Whiz, I don't think I know.
Well, believe me I've tried but there's no explaining,
Eyes piled up you look like a painting,
Saintly and sexy, the soft-spoken wind blows,
Uncertain curtains cover broken windows,
In desperate need of a safe haven and inflamed,
A walk around Paris, unshaven and ashamed,
20 odd years since last time I slow danced,
Teenage crisis and the end of romance,
I see myself in the form of a wolf,
Furry, down on all fours and worried,
Uneven colours and the echoes of fly tones
Connections I've lose and the collection of jawbones
Apples or oranges, you decide which,
I'm writing graffiti on suicide bridge
I once knew a women who was clever and tough
Who said too much make up was never enough
Her eyelids were heavy with words and desire
She lives underwater with the birds and the fire
It just so happens I'm selling my psyche
If you like love you'll love this, most likely
You and me are meant to be, that's right I love you, can't you see, whatever partner you do choose, you have the ability to marry,
6, 7, 8, I'll never hurt you, you know.
Husbands love their wives,
Yeah, love the woman,
Part of me is here with you,
One life, where my heart beats for you,
Well, here we are again,
Here's a couple, treacherous
I'm impatient in relationships in and love
When will you see quand allez-vous me voir
Tell me what is it is, Gee Whiz, I don't think I know.
Bird girls, sorry I'm too sleepy to make
The sounds of my dreams always keep me awake
Don't wanna scare the birds away so I speak soft
Memories like the shows of Vanessa Beecroft
Her bedroom philosophies are so perplexing
But I think these two wooden legs are so sexy
Cries of sadness, spectacular
You be Rossi de Palma and I'll be your Dracula
Fist is of agony decorate the last room
Shoes by the door, on the floor is your costume
Open the trunk with the car key the odd way
Love songs, call me the marquee, the charday
Lord of the files, you lost me I wonder how
Midnight meet me at the entrance for the underground
So many questions, but I'm afraid to ask
So I whisper them to apollinaire by Picasso
I touch all the flowers and break the chain
I wish I could fly, but I'd rather take the train
And it just so happens I'm selling my psyche
If you like love you'll love this
You wouldn't tell me what it was because