Edited by Azizi Powell
This post showcases the 1975 R&B song "Wake Up Everybody" by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes. Included in this post are a sound file, video, song lyrics, and information about this song.
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LYRICS: WAKE UP EVERYBODY
(Writers: Gene Mcfadden, Victor Carstarphen, John Whitehead)
Wake up everybody, no more sleepin' in bed
No more backward thinkin' time for thinkin' ahead
The world has changed so very much from what it used to be
So there is so much hatred war an' poverty
Wake up all the teachers, time to teach a new way
Maybe then they'll listen to whatcha have to say
'Cause they're the ones who's coming up and the world is in their hands
When you teach the children, teach 'em the very best you can
The world won't get no better
If we just let it be
The world won't get no better
We gotta change it, yeah, just you and me
Wake up all the doctors, make the ol' people well
They're the ones who suffer an' who catch all the hell
But they don't have so very long before the judgment day
So won'tcha make them happy before they pass away?
Wake up all the builders, time to build a new land
I know we can do it if we all lend a hand
The only thing we have to do is put it in our mind
Surely things will work out, they do it every time
The world won't get no better
If we just let it be
The world won't get no better
We gotta change it, yeah, just you and me
Source: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/teddypendergrass/wakeupeverybody.html
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Teddy Pendergrass is the lead singer in the song "Wake Up Everybody".
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake_Up_Everybody
"Wake Up Everybody is an album released by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes on the Philadelphia International record label in November 1975. It was produced by Kenneth Gamble & Leon Huff. This would be the last album to include Teddy Pendergrass before he left the group for a solo career.on the Philadelphia International record label in November 1975. It was produced by Kenneth Gamble & Leon Huff. This would be the last album to include Teddy Pendergrass before he left the group for a solo career."...
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FEATURED EXAMPLES WITH COMMENT
Example #1: Teddy Pendergrass with Harold Melvin The Blue Notes Wake Up Everybody
Dawn Higgins, Uploaded on Jan 26, 2011
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Comment from this video's viewer comment thread:
Marguerite Martin, 2013
"This Song is timeless. We have to change the world. Each one Teach One"
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Example #2: WAKE UP EVERYBODY - Original Version (Teddy Pendergrass, Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes)
yxyoic, Uploaded on Sep 23, 2011
The original full-length song recorded in 1975. It's classic.
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Comment from this sound file's viewer comment thread:
Airnester Weems, 2013
"Groups like this sang of social consciousness and awareness. They instilled in some of us that we are ultimately responsible for each other. Until we practice what we peach, this world will always be in turmoil until it implodes on itself. There's no better way to teach it than through song. As music is a universal language."
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Thanks to this song's composers & thanks to Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes for their musical legacy. Thanks also to all those who I quoted in this post, and thankss to the publishers of these examples on YouTube.
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