Non Stop Dancing - JR

Record Sleeve Front

Record Sleeve Back

Produced by Lou Adler
Musicians: Larry Knetchel (Organ), Joe Osborn (Bass), Eddy Rubin (Drums)
Album compiled by Michel Poulain
Art Direction: Patrick Sabatier


Side 1

* Maybelline (2:10)
(C. Berry – T. Fratto – A. Fred)
(Arc Music)

* Roll Over Beethoven (2:50)
(C. Berry)
(Arc Music)

* Susie Q (4:06)
(D. Hawkins – J. Lewis – E. Broadwater)
(Arc Music)

* I’ve Got A Woman (6:16)
(R. Charles)
(Progressive Music)

* Baby What You Want Me To Do (5:46)
(J. Read)
(Conrad Music)


Side 2

* Can’t Buy Me Love (2:35)
(Lennon – McCartney)
(Maclen Music Inc.)

* I’ll Cry Instead (2:47)
(Lennon – McCartney)
(Unart Music Corp. - Maclen Music Inc.)

* A Hard Day’s Night (2:58)
(Lennon – McCartney)
(Maclen Music Inc.)

* When A Man Loves A Woman (3:55)
(Lewis – Wright)
(Pronto Music / Quinvy Music)

* A Whiter Shade Of Pale (5:30)
(K. Read – G. Brooks)
(Essex Music Inc.)
Strings and horns by Mary Paich

* Whisky A Go-Go (3:50)
(J. Rivers)
(Trousdale Music)

SOUL CITY RECORDS - 1965

IN 1965 SOUL CITY RECORDS WAS FORMED UNDER MAJOR LABEL "LIBERTY RECORDS".IT WAS A VENTURE OF MARC GORDON, JOHNNY RIVERS AND JOE SERASENO OF LIBERTY RECORDS.

SEE PHOTO, BOTTOM ROW, ROSA LEE BROOKS, MARILYN MCOO, FLORENCE, MARC GORDON, JOHNNY RIVERS, BILLY DAVIS, RON, LAMONT, JAMES BINGHAM, WILLIE HUTCH, NAME UNKNOWN THE SOUL CITY FAMILY.

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Johnny Rivers, Bobby Womak & Jack Tempchin

2001

Waddy Wachtel, Johnny Rivers, Jack Tempchin, George Thorogood & Henry Diltz -

backstage at the Joint 2001

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The American Dream

FALLEN IDOL - 1963 - Made in France

Baby I Need Your Lovin' - 1967 - FRANCE

• Special tks to Zé Henrique, who sent this image to me.

Playing the Guitar!

The American Dream - 2009

(Johnny Rivers)

Intro Shoutout (Yeah, Johnny Rivers can musically deliver; write a tune and tell the people; You Better Leave Something Beautiful Behind, y'all!!!)

All my life I worked so hard
Chasing the American Dream
Bought a great big house
A big fine car
A foolproof retirement plan
Sent my kids to school
Don't want to raise no fool
I was doing everything just right
Paid my union dues
Took my wife on a cruise
My future, man, it looked so bright
I woke up one day
Heard the newsman say
Oh no! We lost it all last night
We lost it all last night
I wanna walk that walk
I wanna talk that talk
I want to shine some light...all around
Open up my heart
I want to free my mind
I want to leave something beautiful behind
Credit card debt I can't keep score
Repo man is at my door
Got my notice just the other day
Thought my job was here to stay
But like my world is crumbling down
All my friends, they left this town
Took so much I never tried to give
Got to find a better way to live
I wanna walk that walk
I wanna talk that talk
I want to shine some light all around
Open up my heart
(Whoa) I want to free my mind
I want to leave something beautiful behind
Yeah, I want to leave something beautiful behind
It's all crumbling down...all around
Say Good Bye....say good bye
The American Dream
It's not what it seems
Say Good Bye..the American Dream
It's just a great big, a great big Ponzi scheme
Say good bye....say good bye
The American Dream
My My My..better leave something beautiful behind
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Where Words End - 2009

(Jimmy Webb)

I sat me down on the highest rock
on the hill at Big Sur
It was dark and all the stars were spread out wide
As wide as my love for her
I was sure that I was falling
I felt time and space extend
and I thought I heard her calling from a place
a place where words end
Where words end...that's where my love begins
And reaches just as far as any distant star
Where words end there will be no might have beens
She'll be waiting..my best friend just across the river
Where all the words end
So I gave some thanks in silence and for all the good it's done
As a brand new constellation bloomed in space in the shape of my mother's face
In that starry dome of silence I could have heard a falling pin
She was smiling in the starry crown of grace and I watched her stars ascend
Where words end that's where my love begins
And reaches just as far as any distant star
Where words end there will be no might have beens
She'll be waiting for me there just across the river
Just across the river, Just across the river
Where all the words....
Where all the words end

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Beautiful World - 2009

(Colin Ray)

My my my it’s a beautiful world
I like swimming in the sea
I like to go out beyond the white breakers
Where a man can still be free (or a woman if you are one)
I like swimming in the sea.
My my my it’s a beautiful world
I like drinking Irish tea
With a little bit of lapsang souchong
I like making my own tea.
My my my it’s a beautiful world
I like driving in my car
Roll the top down sometimes I travel quite far
Drive to the ocean stare up at the stars
I like driving in my car
All around is anger automatic guns
It’s death in large numbers no respect for women or our little ones
I tried talking to Jesus but He just put me on hold
Said He’d been swamped by calls this week
And He could not shake His cold
And still this emptiness persists
Perhaps this is as good as it gets
Given up the drink and these nasty cigarettes
Leave the party early at least with no regrets
I watch the sun as it comes up I watch it as it sets
Yeah this is as good as it gets.
so My my my it’s a beautiful world
I like swimming in the sea
I like to go out beyond the white breakers
Where a man can still be free (a woman if you surf now)
I like swimming in the sea.
(fade) I like swimming in the sea....My My My

(Note: lapsang souchong is a type of Chinese smoked tea. You drink it..you don't smoke it. Colin Hay was lead singer of 80s group Men at Work)

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Walk in the Rain - 2009

(Michael Georgiades / J. Monday)

I could talk to you but you won't talk
I could listen up baby but my dreams get caught
I'm like a tailor with an all night nurse
You don't fool nobody when they fool you first
I could carve your name on a dead oak tree
And recall your face from my memory
I'm like a miner running low on air
If there's no light in this tunnel
There's got to be a light somewhere
I feel like a walk in the rain
Let the waterfall wash me down again
I feel like a walk in the rain
Let the waterfall wash me down again
We can run after foam in the lakes
And let the sea spray all over our face
Fall like a feather drown with the curse
We're lost together and baby that's just worse
I feel like a walk in the rain
Let the waterfall wash me down again
I feel like a walk in the rain
Let the waterfall wash me down again
We live on an ocean...an ocean of doubt
We're just lookin' for love now baby
The time is right now
We could run faster and farther away
If we could just learn to forget
All these words today
I feel like a walk in the rain
Let the waterfall wash me down again
I feel like a walk in the rain
Let the waterfall wash me down again
I feel like a walk in the rain
Let the waterfall wash me down again
I feel like a walk in the rain
Let the waterfall wash me down again
I feel........oh yea yea

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Slips Away - 2009

(Michael Georgiades)

Hey Baby....you're so beautiful
I don't know how much time we got left in this world
But I know it ain't enough
To find the words to tell you
Everything I want to say
Ain't it funny when you're in love
Words just slip away
Hey Baby...you're so gentle and kind to me
And just when I think I can't take no more
Of what the world's got to give
You reach out to ease the pain
When I start to stray
Ain't it funny when you're in love
Pain just slips away
So we go round in circles
Love becomes something vain
All the heartaches that we cling to
Just pieces of a broken chain
Hey Baby....you were wonderful
Just when I though it all made sense
And I tried to explain
So I hit the marks and said the lines
Like an actor in a play
Ain't it funny when you're in love
Lines just slip away
Just slip away
Just slip
Slip

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Come Home America - 2009

(Johnny Rivers / Michael Georgiades)

(George Bush - Mission Accomplished Speech intro)
Winds of change are blowing strong
Thought I heard someone sing this song
Days of peace are not that hard to find
Pick up the dream you left behind
The time has come to make a choice
To give the people...give 'em back their voice
Will we leave this land in the hands of greed?
Or will we answer this planet's need?
Young and old, rich and poor, black and white can ryhme
Wake up America, it's been a long, long time.
Young and old, rich and poor, black and white can ryhme
Bring back America, it's been a long, long time.
We got our children breathing poison air
The planet's dying and we don't care
Export freedom to some foreign soil
Is it really freedom or just the oil?
Young and old, rich and poor, black and white can ryhme
Come home America, it's been a long, long time.
Come home America, it's been a long, long time.

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Learning to Dance - 2009

(Jack Tempchin/John Brannen)

Now the cruisin' moon is risin'
And the night has opened up it's door
To the land of dreams
And I feel just like I'm flyin'
Like I've never done before
What does this feeling mean?
Down along the sand
Silently you wait
Underneath the timeless stars
I see it's not too late
And tonight I'm learning to dance
I should have done it long ago
But I never took the chance
Now you're standin' in the halo
Of the moonlight's mystic glow
Your body's swaying to and fro
And it's calling me to follow
Where those deeper rivers flow
I'm bound to go
How did I ever find someone like you?
Under love's spell I'm doing things
I never thought I could do
And tonight I'm learning to dance
I should have done it long ago
But I never took the chance
And tonight I'm learning to dance
I should have done it long ago
But I never took the chance
No I never took the chance
Oh I never took the chance
I should have done it long ago

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Half a Million Angels - 2009

(Michael Geogiades)

Walkin' around like I'm in a trance
Thinkin' I lost to a circumstance
Feelin' the weight as the world pulls me down
While my heart and my head spin around
Stayin' alone on top of the hill
Then one day I lost my will
Thought I was drowning in the sea of loneliness
Couldn't hear a sound through the roar of the emptiness
So I...I listened in the distance
Voices that I hear
Sound like half a million angels
Singing very clear
Even if they can give me strength or help me make it through
A half a million angels will never take the place of you
I think about you nearly all of the time
Sometimes your presence is so devine
Whether you're near or somewhere far away
It makes no difference, it's in my heart to stay
So I...I listened in the distance
Voices that I hear
Sound like half a million angels
Singing very clear
Even if they can give me strength or help me make it through
A half a million angels will never take the place of you
A half a million angels will never take the place of you
Um hmmm Um Hmmm .........

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Shadows on the Moon - 2009

(Michael Georgiades)

I was so down
I let myself get kicked around
Always losing solid ground
Seems a long time
Since I held my head high in this part of town
I've been so off for so long
That even I'm sick of hearing my same old song
No one around here can heal my heart
No one around here can heal my heart
Out for so long
Thought I was never coming home
Destined to spend more time alone
Seems a long time
Since I seen you comin''round this part of town
I've been so off for so long
That even I'm sick of hearing my same old song
No one around here can heal my heart
No one around here can heal my heart
...been so off for so long
That even I'm sick of hearing my same old song
No one around here can heal my heart
No one around here can heal my heart
Through the windows at night
I watch shadows on the moon
Staring at the stars I think of you
You were the only one who never let me down
You were the only one that was true
I think of you
I think of you
I think of you
I think of you

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Pure Love - Shadows On The Moon - 2009

(Michael Geogiades)

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Pure love can hurt so bad

Sometimes you don't get what you want and you lose what you had

Pure Love Pure Love

Pure love runs so deep

You always hold on tightest to what you know you can't keep

Pure Love Pure Love let it go...you gotta give it away

Late at night I call out your name

Wake myself from dreamin maybe I won't feel the pain

I tried all I could to separate myself from you

Only separate myself from you

Pure Love Pure Love Pure Love

Pure Love Will find a way

And when every word's been spoken and there's nothing left to say

Pure Love Pure Love Is all you're gonna hear

Late at night I call out your name

I wake myself from dreamin maybe I won't feel the pain

I tried all I could to separate myself from you

Only separate myself from you

Pure Love Pure Love Pure Love

Pure Love Pure Love Pure Love

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Hard Heart - Shadows on the Moon - 2009

(Michael Geogiades)

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We tried to write but the words wouldn't come

We showed emotion until we went numb

Would'da made more love only if we had some

Would'da had the answers if we weren't so dumb

We couldn't breath there wasn't room inside

We said good bye to one another and passed on by

We thought we were clever we thought we were smart

We thought our way out of love with a hard hard heart

We saw the promise slip through our hands

To try to make each other understand

Does it ever work out the way you plan?

How do you get back to where we began?

We couldn't breath there wasn't room inside

We said good bye to one another and passed on by

We thought we were clever we thought we were smart

We thought our way out of love with a hard hard heart

Maybe time apart will soften the way we feel

But if we don't lose these hard hearts, we'll never heal.

I can't explain the things that I do

One thing for certain I know is true

I can't see me loving someone new

It may take a lifetime to get over you

We couldn't breath there wasn't room inside

We said good bye to one another and passed on by

We thought we were clever we thought we were smart

We thought our way of love with a hard hard heart

We thought our way of love with a hard hard heart

We thought our way of love with a hard hard heart

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Somebody to Love - Shadows on the Moon - 2009

(Michael Geogiades)

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Are you the girl of my dreams...are you for real?

Sometimes I think I'll be alone forever it's just the way I feel.

Such a big world and so much room to hide

How will I recognize you when you're standing by my side?

Won't you please send me somebody...somebody to love?

Won't you please send me somebody...somebody to love?

They say that people can be like ships passing through the night

Just exactly what does it take for us to get it right?

In the seemingly endless game of give and take

These feelings come together only to break

Won't you please send me somebody...somebody to love?

Won't you please send me somebody...somebody to love?

Will someone ever really love me?

Will someone ever really care?

When someone really gets to know me

Will they still be there?

Won't you please send me somebody...somebody to love?

Won't you please send me somebody...somebody to love?

I've been living this life of fame and coolness where no one gets too near

I've been through this pain way too many times

I just can't face the fear It's better to have loved and lost,

So I've been told I've got so much love to give deep in my soul

Won't you please send me somebody...somebody to love?

Won't you please send me somebody...somebody to love?

Won't you??

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Beat of My Heart - Shadows on the Moon

(Mike Georgiades)

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Send down the key to open the door

Of the room where I'm holding myself prisoner

I'm here inside with pictures of her

And the last message with her voice on my machine

Send down the peace that can take away the fear

I'm frozen only by the thought of losing her

How perfect she'll reject me only in the name of love

And leave me wanting as she folds away

Each time I hear her voice I remember just how much she meant to me

I hear it over and over and over just like the beat of my heart...

beat of my heart

Send down the love that can only heal the pain I'm living like a monk in isolation

Help me to accept all the things that I can't change I think I've had enough and I surrender

Each time I hear her voice I remember just how much she meant to me

I hear it over and over and over

Just like the beat of my heart...oh the beat of my heart

Just like the beat of my heart

Just like the beat of my heart

Just like the beat of my heart the beat of my heart

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A conversation with JR - Interview

http://www.vintageguitar.com/features/artists/details.asp?AID=2045

A great interview - 2001

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Hand signed autograph

JR

1960s

Old Times

• Special Tks to my dear friend, Zé Henrique!!!

Poor Side of Town - 1966

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Boston - 2007

JR at autograph booth signing a new CD in Boston, 2007

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• Special Thanks to my friend Paul!

Johnny Rivers "Mr. Teenage" - 1960s

1993 American Bandstand Trading Card

LP - L.A.Raggae

Bob Dylan Revisited - October 2009

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• Johnny Rivers & friends opening Tues., Oct. 13


• Phyllis Pollack will be reporting on the opening show on The Examiner online.


• George Thorogood & his band opening Thurs.,Oct. 15


• John Doe opening on Wednesday the 14th

SHADOWS ON THE MOON

SHADOWS ON THE MOON

Soul City CD - Johnny Rivers (2009)

1. Shadows on the Moon 4:36
2. Beautiful World 4:11
3. Walk in the Rain 5:21
4. Where Words End 4:31
5. Half a Million Angels 4:32
6. Slips Away 4:05
7. Hard Heart 4:13
8. Beat of my Heart 3:32
9. The American Dream 4:15
10. Somebody to Love 5:33
11. Pure Love 4:14
12. Come Home America 4:03
13. Learning to Dance 3:10

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Johnny Rivers - Make Believe

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Rare

1973

On Stage...