Fats Domino (1928–2017) American R&B musician
Ain't That a Shame (1955) co-written with Dave Bartholomew
"Going Through Changes"
2010s, Recovery (2010)
Fats Domino (1928–2017) American R&B musician
Ain't That a Shame (1955) co-written with Dave Bartholomew
Laura Nyro (1947–1997) American musician and songwriter
"And When I Die"
Lyrics
“One day if I do go to heaven… I'll look around and say, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.”
Herb Caen (1916–1997) American newspaper columnist
USA Today, February 16, 2001. "Words from the heart', page D4 http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/USAToday/access/68719547.html?dids=68719547:68719547&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Feb+16%2C+2001&author=&pub=USA+TODAY&desc=Words+from+the+heart&pqatl=google <br class="br">Attributed <br class="br">Context: If I do go to heaven, I'm going to do what every San Franciscan does who goes to heaven. He looks around and says, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.
Joe Jackson (1887–1951) American baseball player
This is the Truth! (1949)
Context: I guess the biggest joke of all was that story that got out about "Say it ain't so, Joe." Charley Owens of the Chicago Daily News was responsible for that, but there wasn't a bit of truth in it. It was supposed to have happened the day I was arrested in September of 1920, when I came out of the courtroom. There weren't any words passed between anybody except me and a deputy sheriff. When I came out of the building this deputy asked me where I was going, and I told him to the Southside. He asked me for a ride and we got in the car together and left. There was a big crowd hanging around the front of the building, but nobody else said anything to me. It just didn't happen, that's all. Charley Owens just made up a good story and wrote it. Oh, I would have said it ain't so, all right, just like I'm saying it now.
Bryan Adams (1959) Canadian singer-songwriter
Thought I'd Died and Gone to Heaven
Song lyrics, Waking Up the Neighbours (1991)
Tim McGraw (1967) American country singer
Diamond Rings and Old Barstools
Song lyrics, Sundown Heaven Town (2014)
Billy Joel (1949) American singer-songwriter and pianist
Only the Good Die Young.
Song lyrics, The Stranger (1977)