Neil Sedaka Says: All You Need Is the Music

# Gotta keep on, gotta keep on

# Gotta keep on dancing

# Gotta keep on, gotta keep on

# Keep on dancing

# Gotta keep on, gotta keep on

# Gotta keep on dancing

-# Gotta keep on, gotta keep on

-# Keep on dancing

# The room is swaying, the music's playing

# A rainbow covers the floor

# The lights are flashing

# You feel the passion

# Just look what walked through the door

# Hey, she must be an angel

# And she's heading this way

# If you want to get her, one way to get her

# You gotta get up and dance

# All you need is the music

# Let the beat say hello

# All you need is the music

# Soon you'll be dancing, dancing the one thing you know

# Gotta keep on, gotta keep on, gotta keep on dancing

# Gotta keep on, gotta keep on, gotta keep on dancing

# Your head is reeling

# Don't fight the feeling

# You better go get it on

# Don't talk of whether, just get together

# Before the moment is gone

# Just forget conversation

# Talking is taking a chance

# You want to meet her, one way to meet her

# You gotta get up and dance

# All you need is the music

# Let the beat say hello, forget about talking

# All you need is the music

# Soon you'll be dancing

# Dancing the one thing you know

# Gotta keep on, gotta keep on

# The room is swaying

# Gotta keep on, gotta keep on

# Hear the music playing

# Gotta keep on, gotta keep on

# The lights are flashing

# Gotta keep on, gotta keep on

# Don't you feel the passion?

# Gotta keep on, gotta keep on

# Your head is reeling

# Gotta keep on, gotta keep on

# Don't you fight the feeling

# Gotta keep on, gotta keep on

# Don't talk about whether

-# Gotta keep on, gotta keep on

-# Just get together

# All you need is the music

# Let the beat say hello

# All you need is the music

# Soon you'll be dancing, dancing the one thing you know

-# Gotta keep on, gotta keep on

-# Say it again

-# And again

-# Gotta keep on, gotta keep on

-# Got to keep on dancing

-# All you need is the music

# Let the beat say hello

# All you need is the music

# Soon you'll be dancing, dancing's the one thing you know

# Soon you'll be dancing, dancing's the one thing you know

# You'll be dancing, dance is the one thing you know

# Gotta keep on, gotta keep on, got to keep on dancing

# Gotta keep on, gotta keep on, got to keep on dancing

# Yeah! # CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

WHISTLES

Thank you.

Oh.

Thank you so much.

Thank you for tuning in, ladies and gentlemen.

I have been writing these songs for almost 30 years now.

Songwriting is a very special gift that's been given to me.

It's a talent that I'm very grateful for.

It's brought me some marvellous things over these years.

I've been treated very nicely by the press

here in this country, generally.

They have said some amusing things through the years.

They called me...they said I look like your favourite uncle.

They said I looked like the most unlikely rock and roll star

and the most amusing of all was

"a bowling pin with a smiling face."

LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

But of course, since I lost three stone

I'm sexy and gorgeous.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Love Will Keep Us Together.

# Love

# Love will keep us together

# Think of me, babe, whenever

# Some sweet-talkin' guy comes along

# Singin' his song

# Don't mess around, you gotta be strong

# You'd better stop cos I really love ya

# Stop, I'll be thinking of ya,

# Look in my heart and let love

# Keep us together

# Yeah

# You

# You belong to me now

# Ain't gonna set you free now

# When those guys start hangin' around

# Talkin' me down

# Hear with your heart and you won't hear a sound

# You'd better stop

# Cos I really love ya

# Stop, I'll be thinking of ya

# Look in my heart and let love

# Keep us together

# Whatever

# You're young and beautiful

# But someday your looks will be gone

# When the others turn you off

# Who'll be turning you on?

# I will, I will, I will, I will

# Be there to share forever

# Love will keep us together

# I've said it before and I'll say it again

# While others pretend

# I need you now, and I'll need you then

# You better stop, cos I really love ya

# Stop, I'll be thinking of ya

# Look in my heart and let love

# Keep us together

# Whatever

# I will, I will, I will, I will

# You better stop

# Cos I really love ya

# Stop, I've been thinking of you

# Look in my heart and let love

# Keep us together

# Whatever

# I will, I will, I will, I will

# Do do do do do do do

# Do do do do do do do

# Do do do do do

# Cha do da da

# Cha do da da, just stop! #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

# There was a man

# A lonely man

# Who lost his love

# Through his indifference

# A heart that cared

# That went unshared

# Until it died

# Within his silence

# And solitaire's the only game in town

# And every road that takes him takes him down

# While life goes on around him everywhere

# He's playing solitaire

# And keeping to himself he begins to deal

# But still the King of Hearts is well concealed

# Another losing game comes to an end

# And he deals them out again

# A little hope

# Goes up in smoke

# Just how it goes

# Goes without saying

# There was a man

# A lonely man

# Who would command

# The hand he's playing

# And Solitaire's the only game in town

# And every road that takes him

# Takes him down

# While life goes on around him everywhere

# He's playing Solitaire

# And keeping to himself begins to deal

# Still the King of Hearts

# Is well concealed

# An ever losing game comes to an end

# And he deals them out again

# Solitaire's the only game in town

# Every road that takes him

# Takes him down

# While life goes on around him everywhere

# He's playing

# Solitaire

# Playing Solitaire

# Mmm-hmm

# Ooh. #

APPLAUSE

HE MOUTHS

# It could've been me

# But it was you

# Who went and bit off a little more than you could chew

# You said you had it made

# But you'd been had

# The woman no good, no how, thinking maybe the blood is bad

-# Singing bad

-# Bad

-# Blood

-# Blood

# The woman was born to lie

# Making promises she can't keep

# With the wink of an eye

-# Bad

-# Bad

-# Blood

-# Blood

# Brother, you've been deceived

# It's bound to change your mind

# About all you believe

# From where I stand

# It looks mighty strange

# How you let a woman like that treat you like small change

# I don't understand

# What you're looking to find

# The only thing bad blood do

# Is mess up a good man's mind

# Hear me talking to you

-# Bad

-# Bad

-# Blood

-# Blood

# The bitch is in her smile

# The lie is on her lips

# Such an evil child

-# Bad

-# Bad

-# Blood

-# Blood

# Is taking you for a ride

# The only good thing about bad blood is letting it slide

# Are you ready?

# Doo-ron, doo-ron, di di, dit dit, da doo ron ron

# Doo-ron, doo-ron, da doo ron ron

# Doo-ron, doo-ron, da doo ron ron

# Bad blood, talking about your bad blood

# Doo-ron, doo-ron, di di, dit dit, da doo ron ron

# Doo-ron, doo-ron, di di, dit dit, da doo ron ron

# Doo-ron, doo-ron, di di, dit dit, da doo ron ron

# Bad blood

-# Singing bad

-# Bad

-# Blood

-# Blood

# The bitch is in her smile

# The lie is on her lips

# She's such an evil child

-# Bad

-# Bad

-# Blood

-# Blood

# Is taking you for a ride

# The only good thing about bad blood is letting it slide

# The only good thing about bad blood is letting it slide

# Talking about your bad blood

# Bad blood. # APPLAUSE

HE MOUTHS

HE MOUTHS

So many people have asked me about The Hungry Years.

I wish I could write another Hungry Years, but that's quite impossible,

because you do that once in a lifetime. But...actually,

The Hungry Years was written about two young friends of mine,

who got married and had a goal, a dream.

Their dream was to attain great success, great wealth

and great happiness.

They did realise...their goal.

However, they looked back on the years

and they saw that they were lacking the love and the respect

and they missed those struggling hungry years.

APPLAUSE

# Girl, we made it to the top

# We went so high we couldn't stop

# We climbed the ladder leading us nowhere

# The two of us together

# Building castles in the air

# We spun so fast we couldn't tell

# The gold ring from the carousel

# How could we know the ride would turn out bad

# Everything we wanted

# Was everything we had

# I miss the hungry years

# The once upon a time

# The lovely long ago

# We didn't have a dime

# Those days of me and you

# We lost along the way

# How could I be so blind

# Not to see the door

# Closing on the world

# I now hunger for

# Looking through my tears

# I miss the hungry years

# We shared our daydreams one by one

# Making plans was so much fun

# We set our goals and reached the highest star

# But the things that we were after

# Were much better from afar

# Here we stand just me and you

# With everything and nothing too

# It wasn't worth the price we had to pay

# Honey, take me home

# Let's go back to yesterday

# I miss the hungry years

# The once upon a time

# The lovely long ago

# We didn't have a dime

# Those days of me and you

# We lost along the way

# How could I be so blind

# Not to see the door

# Closing on the world

# I now hunger for

# Looking through my tears

# I miss the hungry years

# I miss the hungry years. #

APPLAUSE

My people are here tonight. Thank you.

# When you walk into a room

# Your beauty steals my breath away

# When you look into my eyes

# I find it hard to find the words to say

# Want to run away and hide

# I just got to let you know

# I feel so tangled up inside

# I should have never let you go

# Anyone can make mistakes

# And we both have made our share

# But a life without your love

# Is a life too hard to bear

# I don't care who's right or wrong

# I only know I love you so

# Why did I have to write this song

# I should have never let you go

# Why in all the wide, wide world

# Have I run into you here?

# Wish I could disappear

# I'll never understand

# Why I even give a damn

# Oo-oo-oo-ooh

# When you walk into a room

# You know I stand on shaky ground

# I've built so many walls around me

# Now the walls are tumbling down

# You're the kind I can't forget

# Let the tears begin to flow

# Mm-mm-mm-mm

# I have only one regret

# I should have never let you...go

# Should have never let you go

# Should have never let you go

# Should have never let you go. #

APPLAUSE

Thank you.

The years 1958-1962 were very, very special years for me.

We call these years the Tin Pan Alley days or the Brill Building days.

And there were many other writers who started in New York City just about the same time.

Neil Diamond, Carole King,

Paul Simon...

ZaSu Pitts. LAUGHTER

Some... We would like to go back to the late '50s and early '60s

and sing some of those for you. Would you like?

AUDIENCE: Yeah!

APPLAUSE

# Oh, Carol

# I am but a fool

# Darling, I love you

# Though you treat me cruel

# You hurt me and you make me cry

# But if you leave me

# I will surely die

# Darling, there will never be another

# Cos I love you so

# Don't ever leave me

# Say you'll never go

# I will always want you for my sweetheart

# No matter what you do

# Oh, Carol

# I'm so in love with you

# Oh

# Oh, yes! #

Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Very special days, the days of Frankie Avalon, Fabian, Bobby Rydell,

the very beginning of Cliff Richard.

The great Elvis Presley.

# Tra la-la-la-la la-la-la-la

# Happy birthday sweet sixteen

# Tra la-la-la-la la-la-la-la

# Happy birthday sweet sixteen

# Tonight's the night I've waited for

# Because you're not a baby any more

# You've turned into the prettiest girl I've ever seen

# Happy birthday sweet sixteen

# What happened to that funny face?

# My little tomboy now wears satins and lace

# I can't believe my eyes

# You're just a teenage dream

# Happy birthday sweet sixteen... #

Altogether!

# Tra la-la-la-la la-la-la-la

# Happy birthday sweet sixteen

# Tra la-la-la-la la-la-la-la

# Happy birthday sweet sixteen

# Tra la-la-la-la la-la-la-la

# Happy birthday sweet sixteen. #

Yes!

Yeah!

Thank you.

HE MOUTHS

Thank you.

I would like to do the very first hit record here in the UK.

It's a very unusual song,

because it did not do anything in the United States.

But of course, the people of the UK have much better taste.

LAUGHTER

# The moon is bright above

APPLAUSE

# Oh, what a night for love

# And as I hold you near... #

This is a sexy one. LAUGHTER

# I whisper in your ear

# I go ape every time I see you smile

# I'm a ding dong gorilla and I'll carry you cave man style

# I'm gonna bump you on the head and love you all the while

# Oh!

# Ranga tanga ring ting tong I'm related to old King Kong

# Honey, won't you say you're mine

# With a honky tonky monkey shine

# When you hold my hand I'm a pre-historic man, I go ape!

# Yes! #

There are so many hits.

My goodness gracious me.

The humility of him(!)

LAUGHTER

# I love, I love, I love my calendar girl

# Yeah, sweet calendar girl

# I love, I love, I love my calendar girl

# Each and every day of the year

-#

-(January)

-You start the year off fine

-#

-(February)

-You're my little valentine

-#

-(March)

-I'm gonna march you down the aisle

-#

-(April)

-You're the Easter Bunny when you smile

# Yeah, yeah, my heart's in a whirl

# I love, I love, I love my little calendar girl

-# Every day

-(Every day)

-# Every day

-(Every day)

-of the year!

-#

-(May)

-Maybe if I ask your dad and mom

-#

-(June)

-They'll let me take you to the Junior Prom

-#

-(July)

-Like a firecracker I'm all aglow

-#

-(August)

-Cos when you're on the beach you steal the show

# Yeah, yeah, my heart's in a whirl

# I love, I love, I love my little calendar girl

-# Every day

-(Every day)

-Every day

-(Every day)

# Of the year

-# I mean to tell you every day

-(Every day)

-# Every day

-(Every day)

# Of the year

# Say it again

-# Every day

-(Every day)

-# Every day

-(Every day)

-Of the year! #

CHEERING AND WHISTLING

Thank you. APPLAUSE

# Strolling along country roads with my baby

# It starts to rain

# It begins to pour

# Without an umbrella we're soaked to the skin

# I feel a shiver run up my spine

# I feel the warmth of her hand in mine

# Oo, I hear laughter in the rain

# Walking hand in hand with the one I love

# Oo, how I love the rainy days

# And the happy way I feel inside

# After a while we run under a tree

# I turn to her and she kisses me

# There with the beat of the rain on the leaves

# Softly she breathes and I close my eyes

# Sharing our love under stormy skies

# Oo, I hear laughter in the rain

# Walking hand in hand with the one I love

# Oo, how I love the rainy days

# And the happy way I feel inside

# I feel the warmth of her hand in mine

# Oo, I hear laughter in the rain

# Walking hand in hand with the one I love

# Oo, how I love the rainy days

# And the happy way I feel inside

# Oh-oh-oh-ooh

# I hear laughter in the rain

# Walking hand in hand with the one that I love

# Oo, how I love the rainy days

# And the happy way I feel insi-i-ide

-# I'm feeling happy inside

-Happy inside

-# Feeling happy inside

-Happy inside

-# Oooh...

-Oooh... #

APPLAUSE

# Life and death in an alleyway

# Just a heartbeat away from a man

# Who's learned to turn his head away

# From the pain that drains the land

# Harlem's not too far from here

# You can smell the garbage, feel the fear

# I hear they're gonna build a skyscraper there

# As if we didn't need the extra air

# New York City blues

# In order to win you've got to lo-o-ose

# Old before your time

# The dirt and the grime get into everything

# And the papers love to say

# It's the meanest town in the USA

# But I think it's OK

# It's the town I make my home

# On another side of Park Avenue

# Respectable folks don't know

# Hungry eyes take in the view

# Of the world that lays them low

# Too many years on a welfare line

# The old song and dance time after time

# You can only get so pushed around

# Until you wanna tear the damn thing down

# Tear it down

# New York City blues

# In order to win you've got to lo-o-ose

# You've got to lose

-# Old before your time

-Old before your time

# The dirt and the grime get into everything

# And the papers love to say

# It's the meanest town in the USA

# But I think it's OK

# It's the town I make my home

-# New York City blues

-New York City blues

# In order to win you've got to lo-o-ose

# You've got to lose

-# Old before your time

-Old before your time

# The dirt and the grime get into everything

# And the papers love to say

# It's the meanest town in the USA

# But I think it's OK

# It's the town I make my home

# Talking about New York City... #

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Thank you.

I've had a marvellous time singing my songs for you.

As always, thank you, the United Kingdom

and we hope that you enjoyed listening to them.

We leave you with A Little Lovin'.

WHISTLING FROM AUDIENCE

# Mama raised me to be a man

# Told me, son, you have to understand

# Learn to get while the gettin's good

# And bring it back to the neighbourhood

-# And I swear, I was there

-And I swear, I was there

# Tell me why should I lie

# I just want to say

# A little lovin' goes a long, long way

# Uncle Henry and Cousin Grace

# Used to weekend at our place

# Grace and I would go behind the barn

# We almost burned the damned thing down

-# And I swear, I was there

-And I swear, I was there

# Tell me why should I lie

# I just want to say

# A little lovin' goes a long, long way. #

Say it, Jackie.

# Oh-oh-oh-oh

# I need your lovin' Just a little lovin'

# I need your lovin' Just a little lovin'

# A little lovin' each and every day

# A little lovin' goes a long, long way, long way... #

# I knew a woman from New Orleans

# Her old man used to treat her mean

# And she would come to me for sympathy

# Southern Comfort and ecstasy

-# And I swear, I was there

-And I swear, I was there

# Tell me why should I lie

# I just want to say

# A little lovin' goes a long, long way. # Say it again!

# Oh-oh-oh-oh

# I need your lovin' Just a little lovin'

# I need your lovin' Just a little lovin'

# A little lovin' each and every day

# A little lovin' goes a long, long way

# I need your lovin' Just a little lovin'

# I need your lovin' Just a little lovin'

# A little lovin' each and every day

# A little lovin' goes a long, long way. #

# I need your lovin' Just a little lovin'

# I need your lovin' Just a little lovin'

# A little lovin' each and every day

# A little lovin' goes a long, long way

# I need your lovin' Just a little lovin'

# I need your lovin' Just a little lovin'

# A little lovin' each and every day

# A little lovin' goes a long, long way. #

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

NEIL: Did we pass the audition?