KNOCK ON WOOD "Amii Stewart"
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AMII STEWART DANCE AND SINGS "KNOCK ON WOOD"
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Amii Stewart - Knock on Wood
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Friends Amii Stewart
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This is my favourite Amii Stewart song from way back when.
Amii Stewart - Jealousy
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Amii Stewart - Light my fire 1979
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Amii Stewart - Light my fire (T) 1979 Original by The Doors (1967) also sung by Jose Feliciano (1968) # 3 in US The time to hesitate is through No time to wallow in the mire Try now we can only lose And our love become a funeral pyre Come on baby, light my fire Come on baby,...
Amii Stewart - Knock On Wood
Amii Stewart - Knock On Wood
Amii Stewart - Friends
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Amii Stewart - Light my fire 1979
Amii Stewart - Light my fire 1979 Original by The Doors (1967) also sung by Jose Feliciano (1968) # 3 in US You know that it would be untrue You know that I would be a liar If I was to say to you Girl, we couldn't get much higher Come on baby, light my fire Come on baby, light my fire Try to set the night on fire The time to hesitate is through No time to wallow in the mire Try now we can only lose And our love become a funeral pyre Come on baby, light my fire Come on baby, light my fire Try to set the night on fire, yeah The time to hesitate is through No time to wallow in the mire Try now we can only lose And our love become a funeral pyre Come on baby, light my fire Come on baby, light my fire Try to set the night on fire (Instrumental) Come on baby, light my fire Come on baby, light my fire Try to set the night on fire Come on baby, light my fire Come on baby, light my fire Try to set the night on fire
Amii Stewart - Where did our Love go - 1981
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Amii Stewart - Where did our Love go - 1981
Amii Stewart - Working late tonight (1983)
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Live Sanremo 1983
Knock on Wood - Amii Stewart (1979)
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with a pic i drew in the foreground...yay!
Amii Stewart - JEALOUSY - Tilt 1979
Amii Stewart - JEALOUSY - Tilt 1979
Amii Stewart - The Letter (Dutch Tv 1979).
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This was Amii's 4th single which was a minor hit, great though !. From the 1979 "Paradise Bird" album. Enjoy.
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Amii Stewart - Paradise Bird
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Amii Stewart - Paradise Bird
Knock On Wood - Amii Stewart (1979)
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Amy 'Amii' Paulette Stewart (born January 29, 1956) is an American R&B/disco/dance/soul/pop singer, dancer and actress. Amii Stewart's father, Joseph Stewart II, signed her up for singing and dancing lessons in 1960 at the age of four, and this eventually led to a very successful career as one of the most highly-regarded disco artists. Before being signed to Ariola Records, Stewart was in the touring company of the stage production "Bubbling Brown Sugar" in 1975, firstly in Miami, then on Broadway, and eventually London's West End, where she met Barry Leng, a producer for Hansa Records. At the end of 1977, "You Really Touch My Heart", a Barry Leng/Simon May composition produced by Leng, was Stewart's first recording. Her first single, a disco cover version of the 1966 Eddie Floyd hit "Knock On Wood", reached number one in the US in April 1979, and earned her a platinum record and a Grammy Award nomination. It also did very well on the Soul singles (#6) and Dance Club (#5) charts, becoming the most well-known version of the song. It was her only American pop chart hit and as a result she is considered a one-hit wonder there, although she also achieved several Top 10 and Top 20 hits in the US Dance Club chart. Stewart moved to Italy in late 1982 when she married her Italian husband, and has resided in Italy ever since, and in her adopted homeland has become a respected performer of a wide range of musical styles. In 1993 and 1994 she was one of a handful of singers invited <b>...</b>
Amii Stewart - Knock On Wood (1979)
Enjoy it (-; I hope the clip I did make will bring back the 70s disco feeling. Amy 'Amii' Paulette Stewart (born January 29, 1956) is an American contemporary R&B/disco/dance-pop singer, dancer and actress most famous for her hit disco record "Knock on Wood". Stewart is the stepsister of actress-singer Miquel Brown and aunt to Brown's actress-singer daughter Sinitta. lyrics: I don't want to lose you This good thing That I got 'Cause if I do I will surely, surely lose a lot 'Cause your love is better Than any love I know It's like thunder and lightning The way you love me is frightening You better knock, knock on wood, baby I'm not superstitious about ya But I can't take no chance You got me spinnin', baby You know I'm in a trance 'Cause your love is better Than any love I know It's like thunder, lightning The way you love me is frightenin' You better knock, knock, knock on wood, baby Think I better knock, knock, knock on wood Think I better knock, knock, knock on wood Think I better knock, knock, knock on wood Think I better knock, knock, knock on wood Think I better knock It's no secret about it 'Cause with his lovin' touch He sees to it That I get enough With his touch all over You know it means so much It's like thunder and lightnin' The way you love me is frightenin' You better knock, knock on wood, baby Think I better knock, knock, knock on wood Think I better knock, knock, knock on wood Think I better knock, knock, knock on wood Think I better knock, knock, knock on <b>...</b>
Amii Stewart - Friends (album version), 1984
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KING KONG VS. AMII STEWART
"4 KING KONGS VS. 1 DISCO DIVA - ( I LEFT MY CORPSE IN NEW YORK CITY REMIX )" Hopefully, there are other KING KONG & AMII STEWART fans out there who might dig this. The song of course, is "KNOCK ON WOOD" (which never gets old, nor fails to get our booties shakin') & the KONGS sourced are the 1933 - '33 Original, 1976 - '76 version, the PETER JACKSON 2005 - '05 Remake (Extended Movie version & the WETA short "recreation"/ imagining of the legendary LOST SPIDER PIT sequence) & DAVID ALLEN's classic 70's VOLKSWAGON COMMERCIAL KONG & Test Reel. PS: As you can tell, we're a bit partial to the Original & PJ version- both of which are Desert Island flix at this place:-) But the '76 *does* have a screamin' sacrifice scene:-). AND WHY? Cuz Kong shakin' his thang seemed like an amusing idea at the time:-) All footage used copyright their respective owners.
Amii Stewart - Knock On Wood ( Long Remix 85 )
AMII STEWART "JEALOUSY"
Pour mon pote de Youtube NOUNOUDYDY... Version longue de Jealousy sorti sur l'album Paradise Bird en 1979... Son vinyl... de l'epoque !!
Mike Francis & Amii Stewart - Friends
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For Mike....
amii stewart - light my fire
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Amii Stewart
| Name | Amii Stewart |
|---|---|
| Background | solo_singer |
| Birth name | Amy Paulette Stewart |
| Born | January 29, 1956 |
| Origin | Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Instrument | Vocals |
| Genre | Disco, Soul, R&B;, Dance-pop |
| Occupation | Singer, Actress, Dancer |
| Years active | 1978–present |
| Label | Ariola, RCA |
Career
Amy Stewart was the fifth of six children. Amii Stewart's father Joseph Stewart II, signed her up for singing and dancing lessons in 1960, at the age of four. There already was an Amy Stewart registered with Actor's Equity, so she changed the spelling of her name to Amii. She began attending Howard University in Washington but soon left to work with the D.C. Repertory Dance Company, studying ballet and modern dance.
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Mike Francis
| Name | Michael Gordon "Mike" Francis |
|---|---|
| Caption | Mike Francis |
| Office | State Chairman of the Louisiana Republican Party |
| Term start | 1994 |
| Term end | 2000 |
| Succeeded | Patricia Phillips "Pat" Brister |
| Preceded | William Dudley "Dud" Lastrapes, Jr. |
| Birth date | November 27, 1946 |
| Birth place | Jena, La Salle Parish, Louisiana, USA |
| Spouse | Divorced from Diana Istre Francis |
| Occupation | Businessman |
| Footnotes | High-powered businessman Mike Francis proved more adept as Republican party chairman than as a candidate for the Louisiana State Senate in 1996 and for Secretary of State of Louisiana in 2006, when he was defeated by fellow Republican Jay Dardenne. |
As the Republican state chairman, Francis challenged the political order, including an effort to unseat most of Governor Edwin Washington Edwards' floor leaders in the Louisiana State Senate in the 1995 elections. In the 1996 Louisiana presidential caucus won by the journalist and commentator Patrick J. Buchanan, Francis worked for then U.S. Senator William Philip "Phil" Gramm of Texas, who soon left the race and deferred to the eventual nominee, former Senator Robert J. Dole of Kansas.
Francis has been mentioned as a potential Republican candidate for the District 4 seat on the Louisiana Public Service Commission, which will be filled in a special election on April 4, 2008, to replace member Dale Sittig of Eunice, who resigned to become director of the Louisiana Offshore Terminal Authority. Ultimately, the Republican Clyde C. Holloway of Rapides Parish won the remaining nineteen months of Sittig's term.
Early years and business
Born in Jena, the seat of La Salle Parish in north Louisiana, Francis became wealthy in the oil processing business from his base in Acadiana. His company is based in Crowley, the seat of Acadia Parish, a rice-growing region in southwestern Louisiana, which produced two of the state's political giants of the late 20th century, Democrats Edwin Edwards and John B. Breaux. Francis also has a residence in Lafayette.Francis is the chief executive officer for Francis Drilling Fluids, Ltd. FDF, one of the oldest drilling fluids companies on the Gulf Coast. He employs more than 350 people at locations in Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, and Wyoming. The corporate headquarters is located in Crowley.
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Running for secretary of state
The secretary of state is Louisiana's top elections officer. The office maintains corporation and government records."We have had a lot of criticism about professional politicians in this state. . . . People are crying out for change. Most are demanding it. . . . Our problems are not Republican or Democrat problems. They are all our problems, and we need to face them together. We need sound business principles in Baton Rouge and not more politics. To attract business, we need leaders who know how to talk business, not politics," Francis said.
Francis had promised, if elected, that he would take a business approach to the secretary of state's office and work to create jobs and to ensure "clean elections," for which he noted Louisiana has often been lacking.
Losing to Jay Dardenne
Francis lost the race to fellow Republican Jay Dardenne, an attorney and state senator from Baton Rouge. The election was held to finish the fifteen months remaining in the term of Republican Walter Fox McKeithen, who died in the summer of 2005. Al Ater, a former Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Ferriday in Concordia Parish, had succeeded to the position because he was McKeithen's first deputy. The special election was held in conjunction with the jungle primary for other offices contested in 2006.Francis ran a strong third in the race, based largely on his support in mostly rural and small-town parishes in his native north Louisiana. He received 26 percent of the vote. Democratic state Senator Francis C. Heitmeier polled 28 percent, and Dardenne led the field with 30 percent. None of the other four candidates had more than 9 percent.
Dardenne was hence scheduled to face a runoff election with Heitmeier of New Orleans. In the meantime, Francis announced that he would not support Dardenne in the second balloting but would run himself for the position in 2007. Heitmeier pulled out of the race and left Dardenne unopposed. Heitmeier's decision was surprising in that 2006 was otherwise a banner year for Democrats nationwide. Heitmeier is term-limited (as was Dardenne) and was ineligible to have sough reelection in his heavily Democratic district in 2007.
"Just because I’m third doesn’t mean I need to sign on with one of them," Francis said on the Monday after the Saturday special election. "When you look at the voting record and history of Dardenne and Heitmeier, they are very similar. I disagree with term-limited senators running for this office."
Francis' largely self-financed campaign ads and literature targeted what he called the senators’ "liberal" votes for taxes and abortion.
U.S. Senator David Vitter, a Republican from Metairie in Jefferson Parish, endorsed Dardenne when a runoff appeared likely. He praised Dardenne's pro-business, governmental reform record and his "dogged determination and persistence" for term limits and other fundamental changes. "There couldn’t be a clearer choice: reform versus the courthouse crowd," Vitter claimed.
Diana Istre Francis (born December 20, 1950) of Crowley, Francis's former wife of thirty-three years, donated $1,000 and volunteered to help Dardenne, having been quoted as saying that "God is at the head of my party."
Dardenne raised $722,631; Francis, $149,637 and added $70,000 of his own funds for a total of $219,650. In his unsuccessful race, Francis carried the support of the 2008 presidential candidate, U.S. Senator John McCain of Arizona.
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