TUNESMITH TUESDAY - "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" by Frank Valli (1967)

Can't Take My Eyes Off You

You're just too good to be true

Can't take my eyes off you

You'd be like heaven to touch

I wanna hold you so much

At long last love has arrived

And I thank God I'm alive

You're just too good to be true

Can't take my eyes off you

Pardon the way that I stare

There's nothing else to compare

The sight of you leaves me weak

There are no words left to speak

But if you feel like I feel

Please let me know that it's real

You're just too good to be true

Can't take my eyes off you

I love you, baby

And if it's quite alright, I need you, baby

To warm a lonely night, I love you, baby

Trust in me when I say

Oh, pretty baby

Don't bring me down, I pray, oh pretty baby

Now that I found you, stay

And let me love you, baby

Let me love you

You're just too good to be true

Can't take my eyes off you

You'd be like heaven to touch

I wanna hold you so much

At long last love has arrived

And I thank God I'm alive

You're just too good to be true

Can't take my eyes off you

I love you, baby

And if it's quite alright I need you, baby

To warm a lonely night, I love you, baby

Trust in me when I say

Oh, pretty baby

Don't bring me down, I pray, oh pretty baby

Now that I found you, stay, oh pretty baby

Trust in me when I say

Oh, pretty baby

TUNESMITH TUESDAY - "Highly Illogical" by Leonard Nimoy (1967)

Highly Illogical

From far beyond the galaxies 

I've journeyed to this place

To study the behavior patterns o

Of the human race

And I find them highly illogical

Girl meets boy they fall in love

She says he's everything 

She's dreamed of

But when they get married 

Before he's aware

She changes his habits 

The way he combs his hair

She changes him to someone 

He's never been

And then complains 

He's not like other men

Now really I find this most illogical

Take the case of your automobiles

Greatest invention 

Since man discovered wheels

Hydromatic overdrive 

Four-on-the-floor

Pushbutton windows 

Pushbutton doors

Double barreled carborators 

Rush you any place

But you never can find 

A parking space

Highly illogical

Take the case of modern man

He works all his life 

Gives it all he can

Saves all his money 

Works overtime

Pinches every penny 

Banks every dime

All he can think about 

Is money but you know

That he can't take it with him 

Where he's going to go

Now I find that fascinatingly illogical

Now is the time to journey home 

To tell of what I've learned

My people, I believe, 

Have every right to be concerned

For in spite of computers 

And advanced psychology

Behavior patterns 

Are still a mystery

I predict the future 

Of this earthly human race

Is that having made a mess of Earth 

They'll move to outer space

Well there goes the neighborhood

Totally, completely, absolutely, irrevocably, highly illogical

TUNESMITH TUESDAY - "Rainy Night in Georgia" by Brook Benton (1970)

Rainy Night in Georgia

Hoverin' by my suitcase

Tryin' to find a warm place to spend the night

Heavy rain's fallin'

Seems I hear your voice callin' "it's all right"

A rainy night in Georgia

A rainy night in Georgia

Lord, I believe it's rainin' all over the world

I feel like it's rainin' all over the world

Neon signs a-flashin'

Taxicabs and buses passin' through the night

A distant moanin' of a train

Seems to play a sad refrain to the night

But it's a rainy night in Georgia

Such a rainy night in Georgia

Lord, I believe it's rainin' all over the world

I feel like it's rainin' all over the world

How many times I wondered

It still comes out the same

No matter how you look at it or think of it

It's life and you just got to play the game

Find me a place in a box car

So I take my guitar to pass some time

Late at night when it's hard to rest

I hold your picture to my chest and I feel fine, I feel fine

But it's a rainy night in Georgia

Baby, it's a rainy night in Georgia

Lord, I believe it's rainin' all over the world

Kinda lonely now and it's rainin' all over the world

Rainin', rainin' rainin', rainin', rainin' rainin', 

rainin', rainin', rainin', rainin'

TUNESMITH TUESDAY - "Shut Up and Dance" by Walk the Moon (2014)

Shut Up And Dance

"Oh don't you dare look back

Just keep your eyes on me"

I said, "You're holding back"

She said, "Shut up and dance with me!"

This woman is my destiny

She said, "Ooh-ooh-hoo

Shut up and dance with me"

We were victims of the night

The chemical, physical, kryptonite

Helpless to the bass and the fading light

Oh, we were bound to get together

Bound to get together

She took my arm

I don't know how it happened

We took the floor and she said

"Oh, don't you dare look back

Just keep your eyes on me"

I said, "You're holding back"

She said, "Shut up and dance with me!"

This woman is my destiny

She said, "Ooh-ooh-hoo

Shut up and dance with me"

A backless dress and some beat up sneaks

My discothèque, Juliet teenage dream

I felt it in my chest as she looked at me

I knew we were bound to be together

Bound to be together

She took my arm

I don't know how it happened

We took the floor and she said

"Oh, don't you dare look back

Just keep your eyes on me"

I said, "You're holding back"

She said, "Shut up and dance with me!"

This woman is my destiny

She said, "Ooh-ooh-hoo

Shut up and dance with me"

Oh, come on girl

Deep in her eyes

I think I see the future

I realize this is my last chance

She took my arm

I don't know how it happened

We took the floor and she said

"Oh, don't you dare look back

Just keep your eyes on me"

I said, "You're holding back"

She said, "Shut up and dance with me!"

This woman is my destiny

She said, "Ooh-ooh-hoo

Shut up and dance!"

"Don't you dare look back

Just keep your eyes on me"

I said, "You're holding back"

She said, "Shut up and dance with me!"

This woman is my destiny

She said, "Ooh-ooh-hoo

Shut up and dance with me"

Ooh-ooh-hoo, shut up and dance with me

Ooh-ooh-hoo, shut up and dance with me