Diane Schuur
Diane Schuur (born December 10, 1953 in Tacoma, Washington) is an American jazz singer and pianist. Nicknamed "Deedles", she has won two Grammy Awards, headlined many of the world's most prestigious music venues, including Carnegie Hall and The White House and has toured the world performing with such greats as Quincy Jones, Stan Getz, B. B. King, Dizzy Gillespie, Maynard Ferguson, Ray Charles, Joe Williams and Stevie Wonder. Like Stevie Wonder, Schuur was blinded at birth due to retinopathy of prematurity.
Biography
Diane Schuur grew up in suburban Seattle, Washington and was encouraged by both her parents to sing. She started singing when she was two-and-a-half, and by age nine, was getting professional gigs. She has said that as a small child she would often retreat to the closet to be alone with herself and sing. Her early childhood music heroines were Sarah Vaughan and Dinah Washington. Schuur had her first gig at Tacoma's Holiday Inn at age ten in which she sang country music. Attending the Washington School for the Blind, she began performing original material, and starting at the young age of sixteen, revealed a distinctive voice and began performing. Her big break came when Stan Getz became positive about her work on hearing her sing "Amazing Grace" at legendary Monterey Jazz Festival in 1979, returning in '88 and '91. In 1982, Getz asked her to join him at a performance at the White House. Nancy Reagan invited her to perform again as a vocalist with the Count Basie Orchestra in 1987. Stan Getz later played on Schuur's first three albums, Deedles (1984), Schuur Thing (1985 also with Jose Feliciano ) and Timeless (1986).
Save Your Love (Renée and Renato song)
"Save Your Love" is a song which, when performed by duo Renée and Renato, was a UK Number one hit in December 1982. It remained at the top of the chart for four weeks before being knocked off by Phil Collins' "You Can't Hurry Love". The song was written by Johnny Edward (creator and voice of fictional robot TV character Metal Mickey) and his wife Sue.
"Save Your Love" entered the UK charts on 13 November 1982 at number 38. However, it began to pick up sales during the Christmas period, and six weeks after its debut was at the top of the charts, resulting in it being played on Top of the Pops and many radio stations. Renée (whose real name was Hilary Lester), did not appear in the video for "Save Your Love"; instead, she was replaced by a model.
Chart performance
Critical Reception
Save Your Love was ranked Number 5 on a Daily Telegraph list of "Worst Christmas number ones of all time".
Cover versions
Save Your Love (Rene & Angela song)
Save Your Love (For #1) is a 1985 single by singing/songwriting duo Rene & Angela from their album Street Called Desire. It was their first single (and album) for Mercury Records. The single was number one on the R&B-charts for two weeks and was the duo's biggest hit on that chart. The song did not make the Hot 100.
References
Save Your Love (Tracie Spencer song)
"Save Your Love" is the first single from Tracie Spencer's second album, Make the Difference, written by Kenny Harris and released on August 30, 1990. In this uptempo song, Spencer is expressing her love to someone by letting them know that she'll be "saving my love for you" and is asking that they do the same.
Chart information
"Save Your Love" peaked at number seven on the Hot Black Singles chart in Billboard magazine, becoming Spencer's first top-ten hit on the chart.
Personnel
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Podcasts:
Diane Schuur
ALBUMS
- Some Other Time released: 2008
- Schuur Fire released: 2005
- Midnight released: 2003
- Friends for Schuur released: 2000
- Music Is My Life released: 1999
- Blues for Schuur released: 1997
- Love Walked In released: 1996
- Diane Schuur & The Count Basie Orchestra released: 1990
- Talkin' 'bout You released: 1988
- Timeless released: 1986
- GRP Live in session released: 1985
- Love Songs released:
- The Best of Diane Schuur released:
- Schuur Thing released:
- Heart to Heart released:
- Collection released:
- Deedles released:
- In Tribute released:
Friends for Schuur
Released 2000- Easy Living (feat. Stan Getz, digitally reintroduced)
- I'd Fly (feat. Richard Cocciante)
- For the First Time
- It Might Be You (Theme from 'Tootsie') (feat. Alan Bergman & Dave Grusin)
- Love Like Ours (feat. Dave Grusin)
- Red Cab to Manhattan (feat. Stephen Bishop)
- The Heart Never Learns
- Never Take That Chance Again
- It Had to Be You (feat. Ray Charles)
- I Just Called to Say I Love You (feat. Herbie Hancock)
- Finally (feat. Stevie Wonder)
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Stay Away From Bill
by: Diane Schuur"[Karrin Allyson]
If you want a man you can love
and be his one and only
[Deedles Schuur]
If you want a man who will be there
and always will
K: If this is who you're looking for
D: The prince who's going to show up
at your door
Both: Whatever you do,
Stay away from Bill
[Horn & piano interlude]
D: Stay away from Bill, he's a beast
and you'll always be lonely
K: He won't ever call, and he'll run
when he's had his fill
D: He'll put you on a pedestal
K: That's right before he puts you
through the mill
Both: Whatever you do,
Stay away from Bill
Both: If you're wonderin' if there's any good in him
When it comes to Bill, the answer's no
He'll lie and deceive you
He'll love you and leave you
and ohhhhhh.....
D: You'll be miserable
K: So stay away from Bill
'Cause he's bad, and he's nothin' but trouble
D: [He's nothin' but trouble]
K: Stay away from Bill
D: [counterpoint] Stay away from Bill
K: If you do
Both: And you're gonna be fiiiiiiine.....
D: He'll have you and hurt you
and then he will desert you
K: He'll shock you and shake you
He'll rock you and he'll break you
Both: He'll chill you and thrill you
He'll kill you, then he'll bill you
Stay--a-way--from--Bill
That--boy--is--miiiiiiine
D: That boy is mine
K: No, that boy is mine
D: Did you hear me, girlfriend?
That boy is mine
K: I heard you loud and clear
That boy is mine
D: No he's not, no he's not
K: [humming]
D: I'll tell you one more time, girlfriend,
He's mine
D: [humming]
K: Deedles, that boy is mine
D: Karryn, that boy is mine
[Karryn - scatting]
[Deedles - scatting]
K: Stay away from Bill