FIREFLY - (self-titled)

by Jesse Coffey

Rating: everyone
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Length: 1134

Includes "Pretty Pretty Please", "Love Is The Key", more.

Firefly is a 1971 album by herself (b. 1938), and her first released on CBS Records (Columbia Records in the U.S.). Firefly signed with CBS since this is the same label in which her daughter (Rainbow Dash, b. 1958) was signed to at the time. However, she was still legally bound to Fantasy Records, for which she recorded 5 albums and 10 singles, each only reaching the lower end of the Top 30. Due to such a bound, the president of Fantasy contacted the Columbia president Clive Davis, who was told to place a Fantasy logo on the CBS label blanks and album covers for her next 15 albums; he complied, and this practice applied until she left CBS in 1982 to form Rainbow Records with her daughter.

The album became a success, both critical and commercial, and made No. 5 on the Billboard LP charts.

ICONS:
OTHER - Firefly was not listed as character option, also used for other songwriters
APPLE BLOOM - Co-wrote two of the tracks/chapters in this album
BABS SEED - Same as Apple Bloom.
RAINBOW DASH - Label-mate and daughter; wrote song "Love (It's The Way)."
OCTAVIA MELODY - Producer and arranger of recordings

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2014-08-08 17:52:11 UTC

LOVE (It's The Way)/LOVE ASCENSION (Instrumental)

The humans had started this originally. This would be the long vamp song, and we've got a couple here, really. Of course, us ponies hadn't done that. It hadn't caught on yet. So that's why I wrote this little medley here, so that the long vamp song could catch on with us.

Rainbow Dash

(surfacing as background vocals:)

Love, love, love, love

Love, love, love, love

Love, love, love, love

Love, love, love, love

If you're wondering how

I really love you so

And why I never ever

Want to let you go

I wanted to let you know

That I can never say no

And that our love will last

Never is it in the past

Oh

Don't you ever go away

'Cause it's the way

That I can make you stay

And make our memories never fade

I never knew at all

How pure love can be

But now I see this love

Between you and me

If I only had a word

To say I needed more

And when I'm in love with you

This love is oh, so true

Oh

Don't you ever go away

'Cause it's the way

That I can make you stay

And make our memories never fade

(instrumental breakage, background vocalization continues)

If you're wondering how

I really love you so

And why I never ever

Want to let you go

I wanted to let you know

That I can never say no

And that our love will last

Never is it in the past

Oh

Don't you ever go away

'Cause it's the way

That I can make you stay

And make our memories never fade

I never knew at all

How pure love can be

But now I see this love

Between you and me

If I only had a word

To say I needed more

And when I'm in love with you

This love is oh, so true

Oh

Don't you ever go away

'Cause it's the way

That I can make you stay

And make our memories never fade

Oh

Don't you ever go away

'Cause it's the way

That I can make you stay

And make our memories never fade

Oh

Don'tcha ever. ever, ever go away

'Cause it is the way, oh yes it is

That I can make you stay, oh

Make our memories never fade

Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh

(high-spirited instrumental, "Love Ascension," begins here.)

Baby I Need Your Lovin'

This is another slow recording. It's of a Motown song.

Rainbow Dash.

Baby I need your lovin', baby I need your lovin', ooh

Although you're never near

'Tis your voice I often hear, oh

Another day, another night,

I long to hold you tight, oh yes I do

'Cause I'm so lonely

Baby, I need your lovin'

And I have got to have all your lovin'

Baby, I need your lovin'

Got to have all your lovin'

Some say 'tis a sign of weakness for a woman to beg, oh yes it is

Then weak I would rather be

If it means, if it means, havin' you to keep

'Cause lately I have been losin' sleep

Baby, I need your lovin'

I just got to have all your lovin'

Baby, I need your lovin'

Got to have all your lovin'

Empty nights, I spend echoing your name

Oh sometimes I wonder will I ever be the same

When you see me smile you know that things have gotten worse

Any smile you might see has all been rehearsed

Oh boy I can't even think about going on without you,

this emptiness will not ever let me live without you

This loneliness inside me makes me feel half alive

Baby, I need your lovin'

I got to have all your lovin', oh yes I do

Baby, I need your lovin'

Got to have all your lovin', whoo

Baby, I need your lovin'

I got to have all your lovin', ooh ooh ooh

Baby, I need your lovin'

I got to have all your lovin'

(instrumental)

Baby, I need your lovin'

I got to have all your lovin', oh yes I do

Baby, I need your lovin'

Got to have all your lovin', whoo

Baby, I need your lovin'

I got to have all your lovin', ooh ooh ooh

Baby, I need your lovin'

I got to have all your lovin'

Baby, I need your lovin'

I got to have all your lovin', oh yes I do

Baby, I need your lovin'

Got to have all your lovin', whoo

Baby, I need your lovin'

I got to have all your lovin', ooh ooh ooh

Baby, I need your lovin'

I got to have all your lovin'

Baby, I need your lovin'

I got to have all your lovin', oh yes I do

Baby, I need your lovin'

Got to have all your lovin', whoo

Baby, I need your lovin'

I got to have all your lovin', ooh ooh ooh

Baby, I need your lovin'

I got to have all your lovin'

PRETTY PRETTY PLEASE

I really like this one tune. It's got real energy and strength to sustain itself throughout.

Rainbow Dash

Crying out for you

Won't do me any good

I need you to make love

And to knock on wood

Waiting outside the door

Won't do me any good at all

I've got your picture hanging up

Upon my little wall

I want you in my arms

Pretty pretty please

I'll keep you that way

And make sure that you don't leave

I never ever knew

How much I really loved you

But now that I do

We can make it just us two

So why don'tcha love me

Pretty pretty please?

'Cause without you

I'd be a dog without a leash

I want you in my arms

Pretty pretty please

I'll keep you that way

And make sure that you don't leave

Baby I've been wonderin'

Why I dream so much of you

Why can't we live together

And make life easy for two?

I want you in my arms

Pretty pretty please

I'll keep you that way

And make sure that you don't leave

Baby I think we can make it

'Cause between us we got love

And you're the answer given

From the stars above

And tenderness it seems

Did me real well

Why does it always seem that

Things work out 'cause our love will sell?

I want you in my arms

Pretty pretty please

I'll keep you that way

And make sure that you don't leave

I want you in my arms

Pretty pretty please

I'll keep you that way

And make sure that you don't leave, oh yes I will

(instrumental break)