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My Favorite ThingsAnita Baker

Released: October 4, 2005

Songwriter: Oscar Hammerstein II Richard Rodgers

Producer: Barry Eastmond Anita Baker

[Intro scatting]

[Verse 1]
Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens
Brown paper packages tied up with strings
These are a few of my favorite things, yes
Yeah, yeah

[Verse 2]
Cream colored ponies and crisp apple strudels
Doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles
Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings
These are a few of my favorite things
My my, oh, ooh, my my

[Verse 3]
Girls in white dresses and blue satin sashes
Snowflakes that stay on your nose and eye lashes
Silver white winters that melt into springs
You got a few of my favorite things
Yeah, you do; yeah, you do

[Bridge]
When that dog bites
When that bee stings
When I'm feeling sad
I just remember my favorite things
And child, I don't feel so bad
Baby, baby, baby
Baby, baby, baby...

[Scatting]
[Instrumental break]
[Scatting]

[Bridge]
When that dog bites
When that bee stings
When I'm feeling sad
I just remember my favorite things
And then I don't feel so bad

[Outro]
Said I don't feel, huh
Said I don't feel, baby
Said I don't feel so bad
Said I don't, said I don't, said I don't feel
Said I don't feel so bad, baby
Said I don't feel so bad, baby... [Scatting]
Cream colored ponies, a crisp apple strudel
My things, my things, my favorite things
These are my things
My things, your things, our things
These things, tied up with strings
These things, these strings
Said I don't feel so bad, baby

Anita Baker

Anita Baker is a Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter known for her distinct low contralto vocals. She started out in the band Chapter 8, which had the hit song “I Just Wanna Be Your Girl” that was later sampled by Bone Thugs-n-Harmony for their hit song “1st of tha Month.” “Anita” went on to become a big name in ‘80s R&B alongside “Luther” and “Whitney” as she began to rack up #1 hits.

Her debut album, The Songstress, was released in 1983 on independent label Beverly Glen and featured the hit song “Angel.” She left Beverly Glen and signed with Elektra Records, releasing her second album Rapture in 1986, which went on to sell over 5 million albums and peaked at #1 on the Billboard R&B Albums chart thanks to the hits “Sweet Love,” “Same Ole Love,” and “Caught Up in the Rapture.”

Her third album, Giving You the Best That I Got, was released in 1988 and hit #1 on the Billboard 200, and the title track hit #1 on both the Billboard R&B and Adult Contemporary Singles charts. Rapture and Giving You the Best That I Got accounted for five of her eight Grammy Awards, with her sixth in that time frame coming from her gospel collaboration with The Winans on the song “Ain’t No Need To Worry” in 1988.

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