Won't Be Long

"Won't Be Long" (stylized at WON'T BE LONG) is a collaboration single by Japanese group Exile and Koda Kumi. It is a cover of the song originally sung by the Japanese band Da Bubble Gum Brothers on August 22, 1990. It debuted on #2 on Oricon and stayed there for the weekly ranking, bringing its monthly rank to #6.

Koda Kumi also released two solo versions on her album Black Cherry (2006): WON'T BE LONG [Red Cherry Version] and WON'T BE LONG [Black Cherry Version].

EXILE also had a different version on their album EXILE EVOLUTION (2007), this version featuring Japanese rapper NEVER LAND.

This song appeared on the Nintendo DS game Taiko no Tatsujin DS (太鼓の達人DS / Master Taiko DS) under its J-Pop section.

Other cover versions

In 1990s, Kwok Cheung Lee (李國祥) from Hong Kong covered this song with Cantonese and Mandarin-Chinese versions - "全為了你" (All for you) and "充滿光彩" (Fulfilled colors).

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Bro.Korn. 

Charts

Oricon Sales Chart (Japan)

Alternate Versions

Won't Be Long (Aretha Franklin song)

"Won't Be Long" is a song written by J. Leslie McFarland and performed by Aretha Franklin. The song reached #7 on the U.S. R&B chart and #76 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1961. The song appeared on her 1961 album, Aretha: With The Ray Bryant Combo. The song was produced by John Hammond.

Chart performance

Aretha Franklin

References

The Black and White Album

The Black and White Album is the fourth studio album by Swedish rock band The Hives. The track listing for The Black and White Album was confirmed on the band's German website on 13 September 2007, and later through NME. The Hives recorded 20 to 30 songs (including seven recorded with super producers The Neptunes) for this album from which they finally chose the best. Other tracks were produced by Jacknife Lee and Dennis Herring. Sessions were held with Timbaland, with whom the band produced the song "Throw It On Me", but took place too late for any of the resulting tracks to be on the album. They hoped to use these songs as B-sides.

Background

The band revealed in an NME interview that one song, "Puppet on a String", has just "piano and hand claps".

The song "A Stroll Through Hive Manor Corridors" is an instrumental using just a 1960s organ and a drum machine.

The song "Fall Is Just Something Grownups Invented" was written and was being used for autumn promotions on the US television channel Cartoon Network. This song appears as a bonus track on the United Kingdom version of the album,the iTunes release in the United States and in the Japanese Edition with the album, along with "Hell No".

English modal verbs

The modal verbs of English are a small class of auxiliary verbs used mostly to express modality (properties such as possibility, obligation, etc.). They can be distinguished from other verbs by their defectiveness (they do not have participle or infinitive forms) and by the fact that they do not take the ending -(e)s in the third-person singular.

The principal English modal verbs are can, could, may, might, must, shall, should, will and would. Certain other verbs are sometimes, but not always, classed as modals; these include ought, had better, and (in certain uses) dare and need. Verbs which share some but not all of the characteristics of the principal modals are sometimes called "semimodals".

Modal verbs and their features

The verbs customarily classed as modals in English have the following properties: