John Ashbery

John Lawrence Ashbery (born July 28, 1927) is an American poet. He has published more than twenty volumes of poetry and won nearly every major American award for poetry, including a Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for his collection Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. Renowned for its postmodern complexity and opacity, Ashbery's work still proves controversial. Ashbery has stated that he wishes his work to be accessible to as many people as possible, and not to be a private dialogue with himself. At the same time, he once joked that some critics still view him as "a harebrained, homegrown surrealist whose poetry defies even the rules and logic of Surrealism."

Langdon Hammer, chairman of the English Department at Yale University, wrote in 2008, "No figure looms so large in American poetry over the past 50 years as John Ashbery" and "No American poet has had a larger, more diverse vocabulary, not Whitman, not Pound."Stephen Burt, a poet and Harvard professor of English, has compared Ashbery to T. S. Eliot, calling Ashbery "the last figure whom half the English-language poets alive thought a great model, and the other half thought incomprehensible".

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One Kiss

One Kiss is the seventh studio album by Canadian country music group Prairie Oyster. It was released by Open Road Recordings on August 22, 2006. "Sweet Sweet Girl to Me," "Too Bad for Me," "I Threw It All Away," "One Kiss" and "Open Up Your Heart" were released as singles.

Track listing

  • "That's My Home" (Levon Helm, Malcolm Rebennack) – 3:15
  • "Too Bad for Me" (Steve Pineo) – 2:51
  • "One Kiss" (Keith Glass) – 4:25
  • "Open Up Your Heart" (Russell deCarle, Glass) – 3:12
  • "Long and Lonesome Old Freight Train" (Cris Cuddy) – 4:20
  • "I Threw It All Away" (Bob Dylan) – 3:32
  • "Sweet, Sweet Girl to Me" (Don Gibson) – 2:39
  • "Drown Your Sorrows" (Joan Besen) – 3:04
  • "Mona Lisa" (Ray Evans, Jay Livingston) – 3:17
  • "I Wish I'd Never Known Love" (Besen) – 2:45
  • "Short Time Here" (Besen) – 3:53
  • "Heaven or Baton Rouge" (Robert David, deCarle) – 4:57

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    Eddie Cochran

    Edward Raymond "Eddie" Cochran (October 3, 1938 – April 17, 1960) was an American musician. Cochran's rockabilly songs, such as "C'mon Everybody", "Somethin' Else", and "Summertime Blues", captured teenage frustration and desire in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He experimented with multitrack recording and overdubbing even on his earliest singles, and was also able to play piano, bass and drums. His image as a sharply dressed and good-looking young man with a rebellious attitude epitomized the stance of the 50s rocker, and in death he achieved an iconic status.

    Cochran was born in Minnesota and moved with his family to California in the early 1950s. He was involved with music from an early age, playing in the school band and teaching himself to play blues guitar. In 1955, he formed a duet with the guitarist Hank Cochran (no relation), and when they split the following year, Eddie began a song-writing career with Jerry Capehart. His first success came when he performed the song "Twenty Flight Rock" in the film The Girl Can't Help It, starring Jayne Mansfield. Soon afterwards, Liberty Records signed him to a recording contract.

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    One Kiss

    by: Zachary Richard

    We had just got married,
    When I picked up and left home,
    Headed out to California,
    Gonna make it in the oil boom.
    It was back in ‘57
    In a worn out Chevrolet..
    Ceasar Junior held the squeeze box
    Though he was too young to play.
    Chorus:
    One kiss from the lady’s love,
    One kiss is all it takes.
    One kiss from the lady’s love,
    That’s the one, that’s the one
    That you’ll never forget.
    It’s been thirty years
    Around the San Francisco Bay,
    Ceasar Junior plays the squeeze box
    Just like the king Clifton Chenier.
    When we get together
    Down at ‘Ti Jolie.
    I’m always asking about you,
    Maybe you asking about me.
    Chorus
    Leave the light burning all through the night”
    Leave the light burning, oh, oh so bright.
    I am just a working man,
    I use my hands most everyday.
    I got a lot of feeling, but I ain’t got much to say.
    I got a house full of Cajun kids,
    And I love them every one,
    But some times I get to lonely,




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