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"Celebration" is a 1980 song by American band Kool & the Gang. Released as the first single from their twelfth album, Celebrate! (1980), it was the band's first and only single to reach No. 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 .
Dennis Hunt of the Los Angeles Times called Celebrate! "the band's mostly excellent new album." [6] Robert Christgau of The Village Voice gave a C− grade saying "It says something for these funk pioneers that unlike James Brown, George Clinton, and the Ohio Players they've adapted painlessly, nay profitably, to disco: a number-one single leads their Deodato-produced album into the top ten.
Valerie Collison in 1972. Valerie Collison (born 23 March 1933) is an English organist and composer of hymns and carols. [1] Her best-known work is "Come and Join the Celebration" for which she composed both the lyrics and tune.
"Come On Eileen" is a song by the English group Dexys Midnight Runners (credited to Dexys Midnight Runners and the Emerald Express), released in the United Kingdom in June 1982 [4] as a single from their second studio album Too-Rye-Ay. It reached number one in the United States and was their second number one hit in the UK, following 1980's "Geno".
The song calls for a celebration when the soldiers return home from war. The chorus is as follows: [2] Gee! What a wonderful time we'll have When the boys come home The girls will be dressed in their Sunday best When the boys come home The flags will fly and the bands will play We'll all turn out with a smile so gay And ev'ry one shouting, "Hip ...
Musically, "Celebration" is a dance pop song with EDM elements, and house and four-on-the-floor beats. [8] [9] [10] It has been noted as being "slightly less Euro" than other Madonna singles from the time such as "Hung Up" (2005), instead recalling her work from the 1980s and 90s: "Holiday" (1983), "Into the Groove" (1985), "Vogue" (1990), "Deeper and Deeper" (1992), and "Ray of Light" (1998).
"Come Rain or Come Shine" is a popular music song and jazz standard with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by Johnny Mercer. [1] It was written for the Broadway musical St. Louis Woman, which opened on March 30, 1946, and closed after 113 performances. [1] The show also produced another notable standard, "Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home."
"Celebration" is a song by American rapper Game featuring fellow American rappers Tyga, Wiz Khalifa, & Lil Wayne and American singer Chris Brown, released as the lead single from the former's fifth studio album Jesus Piece. "Celebration" premiered on Los Angeles' Power 106 on August 22, 2012.