One Chance Song

I’m looking for a song that I don’t know the name of and the song crash this Train Acoustic by Joshua James vaguely reminds of it and I believe some of the lyrics are ”every time I go away” “little girl” something like that I’m not sure its more like they are saying sentences more. We have one chance. One chance to get everything right. We have one chance, one chance. And if we're lucky we might. My friends, my habits, my family, they mean so much to me. I just don't think that it's right. I've seen so many ships sail in, just to head back out again and go off sinking. I'm just a box in a cage. I'm just a box in a cage.

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OriginChicago, Illinois, U.S.
GenresR&B
Years active2005–2011
LabelsUS/J(2005–2009)
Infrared/Nappy Boy(2009-2012)
MembersRob 'Robbie' Brent
Jon Gordon
Michael 'Mic' Gordon
Courtney Vantrease
Past membersTerrell Jones, Jr.

One Chance was an R&B group of Chicago, best known for their 2006 song 'Look at Her,' which peaked at number 53 on the Billboard R&B chart and was later remixed featuring Trey Songz, Lloyd, and Bobby Valentino.

Biography[edit]

One Chance, an R&B group of Chicago composed of brothers Jon Gordon (co-founder) and Michael 'Mic' Gordon (co-founder) p/k/a The Gordon Brothers, Rob Brent (member), and Courtney Vantrease (member), signed to J Records after being discovered by Grammy-Award-Winning artist Usher.

Usher discovered One Chance during a live showcase, and immediately organized a meeting for the boy band to perform for music legend Clive Davis, Founder of J Records, who signed them on the spot. In 2006, the band released their first single, 'Look at Her', which peaked at #53 on the U.S Billboard Hot R&B/ Hip-Hop Songs Chart. In 2008, their second single entitled, “U Can’t” ft. Usher, quickly climbed the U.S Billboard R&B Songs Chart to #73.[1][2][3] Originally a quintet, the band's debut was on the 2005 soundtrack for In the Mix, with the songs 'That's My Word' and 'Could This Be Love'.[4] featuring former band member, Terrell Jones, Jr., who can be seen in its videos.[5]Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.[6] '

Originally slated for release in late 2006, their debut album, Private, was repeatedly pushed back and eventually shelved due to the ever-changing executive team at J Records. One Chance later requested to be released from US Records and J Records in 2008.

In June 2009 the band signed to artist T-Pain's Nappy Boy Entertainment, focusing primarily on writing and vocal producing for T-Pain. On September 23, 2010, One Chance released their single, 'Sexin' on You', from their mixtape, Ain't No Room For Talkin', and co-wrote T-Pain's single 'Reverse Cowgirl'.

In 2011 band members Rob Brent and Courtney Vantrease amicably parted ways to pursue solo careers. Their last release as a group was the June 2011 single 'Super Dewper', which featured T-Pain and Smoke of Field Mob.[7] In 2012 Co-founders and brothers, Jon and Michael 'Mic' Gordon, formed the singer-songwriter duo, The Gordon Brothers.

Discography[edit]

Albums[edit]

YearTitleSingles
2006Private
  • Shelved
  • Label: US/J
  • 'That's My Word'
  • 'Look at Her'
2011Ain't No Room For Talkin'[8]
  • Mixtape
  • Label: Infrared/Nappy Boy
  • 'Sexin' On You'
  • 'Rock Bottom'

Mixtapes[edit]

  • 2011: Ain't No Room For Talkin
  • 2011: The Chicago Quartet (With DJ NB)

As lead artist[edit]

YearSongU.S. R&BAlbum
2006'That's My Word/Could This Be Love'In the Mix Soundtrack
'Look at Her' (featuring Fabo)53Non-album singles
2007'My Word'[9]
2008'U Can't' (featuring Yung Joc)73
2010'Sexin' On You' Ain't No Room For Talkin'

As featured artist[edit]

List of singles as a guest vocalist, with selected chart positions and certifications
TitleYearPeak chart positionsAlbum
CANUK
'Billionaire' (Remix)
(Travie McCoy featuring Bruno Mars, T-Pain, One Chance and Gucci Mane)
2010Lazarus
'—' denotes items which were not released in that country or failed to chart.

Guest appearances[edit]

Song
TitleYearAlbum
'Imma Do It Big'
(Brandon T. Jackson featuring One Chance and T-Pain)
2011Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son OST
'Drowning Again'
(T-Pain featuring One Chance)
Revolver

References[edit]

  1. ^'U Can't' (Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart), Billboard, April 26, 2008.
  2. ^'Celebrity News: Usher Presents One Chance: EPK'. September 26, 2006.
  3. ^'MVRemix Interviews - One Chance'. Dru Hepkins, interviewer. MVRemix Urban. September 2006.
  4. ^'Usher's Label Finally Goes Live'. Billboard. 2005.
  5. ^That's My Word video
  6. ^Billboard.com chart listing
  7. ^http://www.hotnewhiphop.com/OneChance/profile/
  8. ^http://bemagazine.me/2011/02/28/one-chance-getting-their-second-run/
  9. ^'Mark's R & B / Soul Blog: New Music: One Chance - 'My Word'. Mark Edward Nero. About.com.

External links[edit]

  • One Chance at AllMusic
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'Fancy'
Single by Bobbie Gentry
from the album Fancy
B-side'Court Yard'
Released3 November 1969
RecordedFame Recording Studios, Muscle Shoals, Alabama
GenreCountry
Length4:15
LabelCapitol
Songwriter(s)Bobbie Gentry
Producer(s)Rick Hall
Bobbie Gentry singles chronology
'Casket Vignette'
(1969)
'Fancy'
(1969)
'All I Have to Do Is Dream'
(1970)

'Fancy' is a song written and recorded by Bobbie Gentry in 1969. The song depicts its heroine overcoming poverty to become a successful courtesan. Gentry viewed the song as a feminist statement:[1]

'Fancy' is my strongest statement for women's lib, if you really listen to it. I agree wholeheartedly with that movement and all the serious issues that they stand for — equality, equal pay, day care centers, and abortion rights.

The country song was a crossover pop music hit for Gentry. It was covered in 1990 by country music artist Reba McEntire on her album Rumor Has It. McEntire's version surpassed the original on the country music charts, reaching the Top Ten on Billboard's Hot Country Hits in 1991.

Content[edit]

The Southern Gothic style-song is told from the perspective of a woman named Fancy, approximately thirty-three years old, looking back to the summer she was 18.

Fancy's family (consisting of Fancy, a baby sibling whose gender is not mentioned, and their mother; the father having abandoned them) lived in poverty — 'a one room, rundown shack on the outskirts of New Orleans'. Her mother is terminally ill and has no one to care for the baby.

In a last, desperate act to save Fancy from the vicious cycle of poverty, her mother spends her last money to buy Fancy a red 'dancing dress', makeup and perfume, and a locket inscribed with the phrase 'To thine own self be true'. She encourages Fancy to 'be nice to the gentlemen, Fancy, and they'll be nice to you' (implying prostitution as a means to gain financial independence). Soon after, Fancy's mother dies and her baby sibling becomes a ward of the state.

Fancy recalls her mother's parting words: 'Here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down' and 'If you want out, well, it's up to you.' Fancy ends up using sex and connections she makes to build a better life for herself (eventually owning a Georgia mansion and a New York City townhouse flat), eventually making peace with her mother, denouncing 'self-righteous hypocrites' who criticize her and her mother for her actions, and acknowledging the complexity of the decision her mother was forced to make.

Critical reception[edit]

The song was a cross-over country and pop hit for Gentry in early 1970. Cyclomaniacs 2 unblocked. The album containing the song received a Grammy nomination for 'Best Contemporary Pop Vocal Performance, Female'[2].

Chart performance[edit]

Chart (1969-70)Peak
position
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[3]26
US Adult Contemporary (Billboard)[4]8
US Billboard Hot 100[5]31
Canadian RPM Country Tracks1
Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary Tracks20
Canadian RPM Top Singles26

Reba McEntire version[edit]

'Fancy'
Single by Reba McEntire
from the album Rumor Has It
B-side'This Picture'
ReleasedFebruary 1991
GenreCountry
Length4:58
LabelMCA S7-54042
Songwriter(s)Bobbie Gentry
Producer(s)Tony Brown
Reba McEntire
Reba McEntire singles chronology
'Rumor Has It'
(1990)
'Fancy'
(1991)
'Fallin' Out of Love'
(1991)

In 1991, Reba McEntire took the song to number eight on the Billboard Country charts. McEntire also produced a popular music video for the song, expanding on the song's storyline. For years, McEntire has encored her live concerts with the hit, singing the first half of the song in a ragged black mink coat and hat then removing them to reveal a floor length red gown for the second half. McEntire has referred to the song as her 'possible signature hit'. (The edit of the song heard on most radio stations cuts the song short after three verses, before the title character makes it off the streets.) Since 1984, Reba wanted to record it but her producer at the time, Jimmy Bowen was against it because he believed the song was too closely associated to Gentry. When Reba changed producers to Tony Brown, she was able to record it for her 1990 album Rumor Has It.[6] As of November 2019, the song has sold 760,000 digital copies in the United States.[7]

In 2014, a mashup of McEntire's version of 'Fancy' and Australian rapper Iggy Azalea's hit recording of the same title surfaced on the Internet. The mashup, which replaces the Charli XCX-sung chorus in Azalea's hit with the chorus from McEntire's 'Fancy,' was reviewed favorably by the country-music website TasteOfCountry.com.[8]

Music video[edit]

The music video for the song tells the story of the song itself in more detail. It opens with the title character, Fancy Rae Baker, played by McEntire, riding in a taxi cab and arriving at the site of the small shack on the outskirts of New Orleans where she grew up, which is now abandoned. The video takes something of a creative license with the song as McEntire's version of Fancy, much like McEntire herself, is a famous singer and actress. The story of the song plays out against the background accompanied by flashbacks of Fancy's past with her mother and baby sibling playing prominent roles.

Near the end of the video, Fancy visits her mother's grave in the backyard of the shack and sees her mother's ghost standing nearby. She tells her that she understands now and forgives her. As the video ends, Fancy departs in her taxi and a large sign is seen in the front yard that says that the property is to be the future home of the Fancy Rae Baker Home for Runaways, dedicated to the memory of her late mother, with the home's motto 'to thine own self be true' (the engraving on the locket Fancy's mother gave her before she left, which she threw down before leaving but retrieved at her return and placed on her mother's gravestone).

Though the song's lyrics indicate that the events described took place in the summer Fancy turned 18, in the video, the clothing worn by the characters, and the surrounding bare foliage, would appear to indicate winter conditions in southern Louisiana. Another strange fact about the video was it was not filmed in Louisiana; it was actually filmed on a cold, rainy, January day, a few miles outside Nashville.

References in Stephen King's book 'Duma Key'[edit]

In Stephen King's book Duma Key, there are some references to this song.In the book Edgar says he called his doll 'Reba' because the radio in his car played Reba McEntire's song 'Fancy' when he had his accident, and when he forgets his doll's name, he thinks about the song, especially about the sentence: '..It was RED!..' from the song.Also, there are a lot of references to this particular sentence ('..It was RED!..') when something in the book is red, all because his car radio played the song when the accident happened.

Chart performance[edit]

Chart (1991)Peak
position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)[9]8
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[10]8

References[edit]

  1. ^Veljkovic, Morag (July 1974). 'Ode to Bobbie Gentry'. After Dark Magazine.
  2. ^'Bobbie Gentry, Artist'. Official Grammys website. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
  3. ^'Bobbie Gentry Chart History (Hot Country Songs)'. Billboard.
  4. ^'Bobbie Gentry Chart History (Adult Contemporary)'. Billboard.
  5. ^'Bobbie Gentry Chart History (Hot 100)'. Billboard.
  6. ^Reba McEntire. 'Reba: My Story'. Books.google.com. p. 27. Retrieved 2016-10-02.
  7. ^Bjorke, Matt (November 30, 2019). 'Top 30 Digital Country Songs: November 24, 2019'. Rough Stock. Retrieved December 12, 2019.
  8. ^'Reba McEntire's 'Fancy' Mashed with Iggy Azalea Actually Works,' TasteOfCountry.com. 12 July 2014, retrieved 15 March 2015.
  9. ^'Top RPM Country Tracks: Issue 1520.' RPM. Library and Archives Canada. May 18, 1991. Retrieved August 16, 2013.
  10. ^'Reba McEntire Chart History (Hot Country Songs)'. Billboard.

External links[edit]

Song
  • Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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