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Jean Pace - Under The Sun [HD]

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Channel: Gary Larson · 2018 · People & Blogs

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Jean Pace sings 'Under The Sun' from the 1970 RCA original cast album for 'Joy', a 1969 Broadway musical. This musical featured Oscar Brown Jr. who wrote this song, Jean Pace, and the Brazilian artist Sivuca. The song lyrics are in the video and listed below along with some notes on Brown.

Note: This is one of the six songs sung by Jean Pace on the album and one not already on YouTube. She was the sister of actress Judy Pace and wife of Oscar Brown. View the video "Jean Pace Brown" posted by their daughter Africa Pace Brown for many pictures of this talented singer.

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Under The Sun

Singer - Jean Pace

Fire red and round it rises
Now another day's begun
Full of sorrow and sweet surprises
Under the sun

Higher, red gives way to yellow
Every soul it shines upon
Prays the days will be more mellow
Under the sun

Great ball of fire arising higher
Higher, higher, higher on to noon
Great ball of fire arising higher
Higher, yet to set so soon

So soon, so soon to set
And leave us yawning
Weary by the race we've run
Someone else's day just dawning
Under the sun

Someone else's day just dawning
Under the sun
Someone else's day just dawning

Songwriter:  Oscar Brown Jr.

[Lyrics transcribed by Gary Larson]

Wikipedia states:

Oscar Brown Jr. (October 10, 1926 – May 29, 2005) was an American singer, songwriter, playwright, poet, civil rights activist, and actor. He ran unsuccessfully for office in both the Illinois state legislature and the U.S. Congress. Brown wrote numerous songs (only 125 have been published), 12 albums, and more than a dozen musical plays.

Born and raised on the south side of Chicago, he was named after his father Oscar Brown Sr., a successful attorney and real estate broker. Brown's first acting debut was on the radio show Secret City at the age of 15. He attended Englewood High School in Chicago, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and Lincoln University but did not obtain a degree. He also served a stint in the U.S. Army.

[See Wikipedia entry for details of Brown's musical career]

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