LAST NIGHT

GEORGE CATES & HIS ORCHESTRA

SONGWRITER: George voumard

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: LAST NIGHT

LABEL: CORAL RECORDS

GENRE: ORCHESTRATED

YEAR: 1956

Géo Voumard (2 December 1920 – 3 September 2008) was a Swiss jazz pianist and composer. He was a co-founder of the Montreux Jazz Festival and composer of the song "Refrain" which won the first Eurovision Song Contest.

George Cates (October 19, 1911 – May 10, 2002) was an American music arranger, conductor, songwriter and record executive known for his work with Lawrence Welk and his orchestra.

Born and raised in New York, Cates began his music career shortly after his graduating from New York University, where he found work with the vaudeville team of Olsen and Johnson on their legendary revue, Hellzapoppin. His early career included arranging and playing saxophone with such bands as Henry Busse, Dick Stabile, and Russ Morgan between 1945 and 1951. In the mid-1950s, he was A&R director for Coral Records, writing and conducting for the label's stars that included the Andrews Sisters, Teresa Brewer, Bing Crosby, and Danny Kaye. During this time (1956), he hit the Top 40 charts (#31) with his release of a medley of "Moonglow" and "Theme from Picnic." The record "Moonglow and Theme from Picnic" had some wordless vocal effects by Norma Zimmer, at the time a session vocalist, who, coincidentally, would later become Lawrence Welk's Champagne Lady. "Moonglow and Theme from Picnic" sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc.

MOONGLOW

TONY BENNETT & K. D. LANG

SONGWRITERS: EDDIE DELANGE, IRVING MILLS & WILL HUDSON

WHERE: MTV UNPLUGGED

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM:MOONGLOW

LABEL: COLUMBIA

GENRE: JAZZ

YEAR: 1994

MTV Unplugged is a live album by Tony Bennett that was released in 1994. Backed by his usual Ralph Sharon Trio, Bennett appeared on the TV show MTV Unplugged, which despite being a superfluous platform ("I've always been unplugged," Bennett noted), showcased the Great American Songbook. Rock stars Elvis Costello and k.d. lang made guest appearances.

The album reached platinum record status in the United States and won the 1995 Grammy Awards for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance and Album of the Year.

"Moonglow" appears in jazz fake books and lead sheets in the key of G, though it is also thought to originally be in the key of C. It is tonal and begins on the IV chord, also referred to as the subdominant major chord, and the sixth, or submediant note of the major scale, before resolving onto the tonic.

The melodic riff of the A section is composed of a repeated minor third interval followed by a major third interval and then a repeated note. Harmonic movement is largely in an ascending circle of fourths, or with descending chromatic substitutions, but there is also movement between thirds or between major and minor seventh chords. Minor seventh chords are often played in first inversion in this tune, and may therefore be thought of and notated as six chords of the relative major.

Rhythmically "Moonglow" is in 4 time. It is a foxtrot, typically played at a slow tempo, although some performers, notably Art Tatum, have played it faster. The rhythm is syncopated. Jazz players usually swing the eighth notes.

Writer George T. Simon, while working on a compilation of music for The Big Band Songbook, contacted composer Will Hudson regarding “Moonglow,” and Hudson explained how the tune came about. “It happened very simply. Back in the early ‘30s, I had a band at the Graystone Ballroom in Detroit, and I needed a theme song. So I wrote ‘Moonglow.’

It must have been moonglow

Way up in the blue

It must have been moonglow

That led me straight to you

I still hear you saying

'dear one, hold me fast'

And I start in praying

Oh Lord, please let this last

We seemed to float right through the air

Heavenly songs seem to come from everywhere

And now when there's moonglow

Way up in the blue

I always remember

That moonglow gave me you.

MOONGLOW

ARTIE SHAW (SWINGTIME BIG BAND)

SONGWRITERS: EDDIE DELANGE, IRVING MILLS & WILL HUDSON

ONLY: INSTRUMENTAL

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: ARTIE AND HIS ORCHESTRA MOONGLOW

LABEL:RCA VICTOR

GENRE:JAZZ

YEAR: 1956

Artie Shaw (born Arthur Jacob Arshawsky; May 23, 1910 – December 30, 2004) was an American clarinetist, composer, bandleader, and actor. Also an author, Shaw wrote both fiction and non-fiction.

Widely regarded as "one of jazz's finest clarinetists," Shaw led one of the United States' most popular big bands in the late 1930s through the early 1940s. Though he had numerous hit records, he was perhaps best known for his 1938 recording of Cole Porter's "Begin the Beguine." Prior to the release of "Beguine," Shaw and his fledgling band had languished in relative obscurity for over two years and, after its release, he became a major pop artist within short order. The record eventually became one of the era's defining recordings. Musically restless, Shaw was also an early proponent of what became known much later as Third Stream music, which blended elements of classical and jazz forms and traditions. His music influenced other musicians, such as John Barry in England, with the vamp of the James Bond Theme, possibly influenced by "Nightmare," which also has a similar vamp to Kurt Weill's "Lonely House."

"Moonglow", also known as "Moonglow and Love" is a 1933 popular song. The music was by Will Hudson (1908–1981) and Irving Mills and the words were by Eddie DeLange.

"Moonglow" was first recorded by Joe Venuti and his orchestra in 1933, with subsequent recordings by Cab Calloway, Benny Goodman and his orchestra, Ethel Waters, and Art Tatum in 1934 and has since become a jazz standard, performed and recorded numerous times by a wide array of musical talents. The Benny Goodman Quartet with Teddy Wilson, Gene Krupa and Lionel Hampton made a famous version of the song in 1936, Artie Shaw recorded it in 1941, and Harry James recorded it in 1946 (released in 1950) on Columbia 38943.

Bing Crosby recorded the song in 1956 for use on his radio show and it was subsequently included in the box set The Bing Crosby CBS Radio Recordings (1954-56) issued by Mosaic Records (catalog MD7-245) in 2009. Other prominent vocalists who have recorded "Moonglow" include June Christy(1946), Billie Holiday(1952) and Sarah Vaughan(1962). A recording by George Cates and his Orchestra reached number four. The Coasters released a version on their 1960 album, One by One.

SPEAK TO ME OF LOVE

RAY CONIFF

SONGRITERS: JEAN LENOIR & BRUCE SIEVIER

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: SPEAK TO ME OF LOVE

LABEL: COLUMBIA

GENRE: JAZZ

YEAR:1964

Joseph Raymond Conniff (November 6, 1916 – October 12, 2002) was an American bandleader and arranger best known for his Ray Conniff Singers during the 1960s.

Conniff was born in Attleboro, Massachusetts, and learned to play the trombone from his father. He studied music arranging from a course book.

Between 1957-68, Conniff had 28 albums in the American Top 40, the most famous one being Somewhere My Love (1966). He topped the album list in Britain in 1969 with His Orchestra, His Chorus, His Singers, His Sound, an album which was originally published to promote his European tour (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) in 1969. He also was the first American popular artist to record in Russia—in 1974 he recorded Ray Conniff in Moscow with the help of a local choir. His later albums like Exclusivamente Latino, Amor Amor, and Latinisimo made him very popular in Latin-American countries, even more so after performing in the Viña del Mar International Song Festival. In Brazil and Chile he was treated like a young pop superstar in the 1980s and 1990s when he was in his 70s and 80s. He even played live with his orchestra and eight-person chorus in large football stadiums as well as in Viña del Mar..

Speak to me of love

And say what I’m longing to hear

Tender words of love

Repeat them again

I implore you

Speak to me of love

And whisper these words to me, dear

I adore you.

Speak to me of love

And whisper these words to me, dear

I adore you.

SAPORE DI SALE

GINO PAOLI

COMPOSITORE: GINO PAOLI

DOVE: LIVE RSI 1980

PAESE: ITALIA

ALBUM: ‘89 DAL VIVO

ETICHETTA: RCA ITALIANA

GENERE: CANZONI

ANNO: 1963

Sapore di sale è una canzone scritta da Gino Paoli e da questi incisa per la prima volta nel 45 giri Sapore di sale/La nostra casa, del 1963 (pubblicato su etichetta RCA Italiana) e inserita nell'album Basta chiudere gli occhi pubblicato l'anno seguente. È il maggiore successo dell'artista e un classico della musica italiana.

           Il brano partecipò AL Cantagiro 1963. Il 45 giri raggiunse il primo posto delle classifiche in Italia.

Sapore di sale, sapore di mare

Che hai sulla pelle, che hai sulle labbra

Quando esci dall'acqua, e ti vieni a sdraiare

Vcino a me, vicino a me

Sapore di sale, sapore di mare

Un gusto un po'amaro di cose perdute

Di cose lasciate lontano da noi

Dove il mondo è diverso, diverso da qui

Qui il tempo è dei giorni che passano pigri

E lasciano in bocca il gusto del sale

Ti butti nell'acqua e mi lasci a guardarti

E rimango da solo nella sabbia e nel sole

Poi torni vicino e ti lasci cadere

Così nella sabbia e nelle mie braccia

E mentre ti bacio sapore di sale

Sapore di mare, sapore di te

Qui il tempo è dei giorni che passano pigri

E lasciano in bocca il gusto del sale

Ti butti nell'acqua e mi lasci a guardarti

E rimango da solo nella sabbia e nel sole

Poi torni vicino e ti lasci cadere

Così nella sabbia e nelle mie braccia

E mentre ti bacio sapore di sale

Sapore di mare, sapore di te.

HERE'S TO LIFE

SHIRLEY HORN

SONGWRITERS: ARTIE BUTLER & PHYLLIS MOLINARY

COUNTRY: U.S.A.

ALBUM: HERE’S TO LIFE

LABEL: POLY GRAM

GENRE: JAZZ

YEAR: 1992

Here's to Life is a 1992 studio album by Shirley Horn, arranged by Johnny Mandel (also the composer of three of the songs on the album), who received a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s) on this album.

The title track "Here's to Life" became Horn's signature song. The music was written by Artie Butler and the poignant lyrics were written by Phyllis Molinary. The lyric is known, world-wide, as one of her finest works and the song is considered a "modern day jazz standard."

"If You Love Me" is her interpretation of the passionate "Hymne à l'amour", made famous by Edith Piaf.

Summer is the first English version of the Italian standard "Estate". Horn ordered English lyrics after hearing JoÃo Gilberto's version, which spread the song's worldwide fame.

No complaints and no regrets

I still believe in chasing dreams and placing bets

But I have learned that all you give is all you get, so give it all you got

I had my share, I drank my fill, and even though I'm satisfied I'm hungry still

To see what's down another road, beyond a hill and do it all again

So here's to life and all the joy it brings

Here's to life the dreamers and their dreams

Funny how the time just flies

How love can turn from warm hellos to sad goodbyes

And leave you with the memories you've memorized

To keep your winters warm

There's no yes in yesterday

And who knows what tomorrow brings or takes away

As long as I'm still in the game I want to play

For laughs, for life, for love

So here's to life and all the joy it brings

Here's to life, the dreamers and their dreams

May all your storms be weathered

And all that's good get better

Here's to life, here's to love, here's to you

May all your storms be weathered

And all that's good get better

Here's to life, here's to love, here's to you.

SUMMERTIME

BILLIE HOLIDAY

SONGWRITERS: DUBOSE HEYWARD; GEORGE GERSHWIN & IRA GERSHWIN

COUNTRY: U.S.A.

ALBUM: THE QUINTESSENTIAL BILLIE HOLIDAY, VOL. 2

LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS

GENRE: JAZZ

YEAR: 1987

"Summertime" is na aria composed in 1934 by George Gershwin for the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess. The lyrics are by DuBose Heyward, the author of the novel Porgy on which the opera was based, although the song is also co-credited to Ira Gershwin by ASCAP.

The song soon became a popular and much recorded jazz standard, described as "without doubt ... one of the finest songs the composer ever wrote ... Gershwin's highly evocative writing brilliantly mixes elements of jazz and the song styles of blacks in the southeast United States from the early twentieth century". Composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim has characterized Heyward's lyrics for "Summertime" and "My Man's Gone Now" as "the best lyrics in the musical theater". The song is recognized as among the most covered songs in the history of recorded music, with more than 33,000 covers by groups and solo performers.

Summertime and the livin' is easy

Fish are jumpin' and the cotton is fine

Oh your Daddy's rich and your ma is good lookin'

So hush little baby, don't you cry

One of these mornings

You're goin' to rise up singing

Then you'll spread your wings

And you'll take the sky

But till that morning

There's a nothin' can harm you

With daddy and mammy standin' by.

BLACK COFFEE

SARAH VAUGHAN

SONGWRTTER: SONNY BURKE

COUNTRY: U.S.A.

ALBUM: BLACK COFFEE

LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS

GENRE: JAZZ

YEAR: 1949

"Black Coffee" is a song. The music was written by Sonny Burke (based on the 1938 piece "What's Your Story Morning Glory" composed by Mary Lou Williams), the lyrics by Paul Francis Webster. The song was published in 1948. Sarah Vaughan charted with this song in 1949 on Columbia.

Peggy Lee recorded the song on May 4, 1953 and it was included on her debut album Black Coffee.

It was included in the soundtrack for the 1960 Columbia Pictures feature Let No Man Write My Epitaph, recorded on Verve by Ella Fitzgerald, also in 1960. The version by Ella Fitzgerald was a favourite song of Polish Nobel Prize laureate Wisława Szymborska who chose it as the song to be performed at her funeral.

I'm feelin' mighty lonesome

Haven't slept a wink

I walk the floor and watch the door

And in between I drink

Black coffee

Love's a hand-me-down brew

I'll never know a Sunday in this weekday room

I'm talkin to the shadows

One o'clock till four

And Lord, how slow the moments go

When all I do is pour

Black coffee

Since the blues caught my eye

I'm hangin' out on Monday my Sunday dreams to dry

Now a man is born to go a-lovin'

And a woman's born to weep and fret

And stay at home and tend her oven

And down her past regrets

In coffee and cigarettes

I'm moanin' all the morning

Moanin' all the night

And in between it's nicotine

And not much heart to fight

Black coffee

Feelin' low as the ground

It's drivin' me crazy

This waitin' for my baby

To maybe come around

(Sarah Humming)

THE STABLE SONG

GREGORY ALAN ISAKOV

SONGWRITER: GREGORY ALAN IZAKOV

COUNTRY: SOUTH AFRICA

ALBUM: THAT SEA, THE GAMBLER

LABEL: GREGORY ALAN ISAKOV

GENRE: FOLK

YEAR: 2007

That Sea, the Gambler is the third studio album by Folk singer Gregory Alan Isakov. It was released in 2007

Gregory Alan Isakov is a singer-songwriter. Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, he emigrated to the United States as a child, and was raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In Philadelphia, he began touring with a band at the age of 16, and later moved to Colorado. His music combines indie and folk, featuring instruments such as the guitar and banjo. Some of his most popular songs include "The Stable Song", "Big Black Car", and "Raising Cain".

Isakov has spent his entire life traveling, and as a result, his travels have impacted his songwriting; his songs tell stories of miles and landscapes and the search for a sense of place. Music has been a constant force in his life, as he says, "I've always had this sense about music and writing, that I sort of have to do it. Like I'll implode without it. I probably wouldn't do it if I felt any other way."

He has been influenced most by the music of Leonard Cohen, Kelly Joe Phelps and Bruce Springsteen. Gregory has played at many music festivals held across the United States, Canada and Europe. Outside of music, he spends his time working in his market garden.

Remember when our songs where just like prayers.

Like gospel hymns that you called in the air.

Come down come down sweet reverence,

Unto my simple house and ring

And ring.

Ring like silver, ring like gold

Ring out those ghosts on the Ohio

Ring like clear day wedding bells

Were we the belly of the beast or the sword that fell

We'll never tell.

Come to me clear and cold on some sea

Watch the world spinning waves like machine

Now I've been crazy couldn't you tell

I threw stones at the stars, but the whole sky fell

Now I'm covered up in straw, belly up on the table

Well I drank and sang, and passed in the stable.

That tall grass grows high and brown,

Well I dragged you straight in the muddy ground

And you sent me back to where I roam

Well I cursed and I cried, but now I know

Now I know

And I ran back to that hollow again

The moon was just a sliver back then

And I ached for my heart like some tin man

When it came oh it beat and it boiled and it rang

Oh it's ringing

Ring like crazy, ring like hell

Turn me back into that wild haired gale

Ring like silver, ring like gold

Turn these diamonds straight back into coal.

Turn these diamonds straight back into coal.

PASSING AFTERNOON

IRON & WINE

SONGWRITER: SAMUEL ERVIN BEAM

WHERE: LIVE AT AQUARIUS RECORDS 2009

COUNTRY: U.S.A.

ALBUM: OUR ENDLESS NUMBERED DAYS ALBUM

LABEL: SUB POP

GENRE: FOLK

YEAR: 2004

Our Endless Numbered Days is the second full-length album from Iron & Wine. Released on March 23, 2004 on Sub Pop, it was the first non-solo effort by Sam Beam under his Iron & Wine moniker. Limited edition copies of the vinyl LP came with a bonus 7" vinyl single. Limited edition copies of the CD came with a bonus CD single.

The album's title comes from the lyrics of the song "Passing Afternoon": "There are things that drift away like our endless, numbered days."

There are times that walk from you like some passing afternoon

Summer warmed the open window of her honeymoon

And she chose a yard to burn but the ground remembers her

Wooden spoons, her children stir her bougainvillea blooms

There are things that drift away like our endless, numbered days

Autumn blew the quilt right off the perfect bed she made

And she's chosen to believe in the hymns her mother sings

Sunday pulls its children from the piles of fallen leaves

There are sailing ships that pass all our bodies in the grass

Springtime calls her children until she let's them go at last

And she's chosen where to be, though she's lost her wedding ring

Somewhere near her misplaced jar of bougainvillea seeds

There are things we can't recall, blind as night that finds us all

Winter tucks her children in, her fragile china dolls

But my hands remember hers, rolling around the shaded ferns

Naked arms, her secrets still like songs I'd never learned

There are names across the sea, only now I do believe

Sometimes, with the window closed, she'll sit and think of me

But she'll mend his tattered clothes and they'll kiss as if they know

A baby sleeps in all our bones, so scared to be alone

Springtime.

ME PARÉ DE QUERERTE

LILY Y EL GRAN TRIO

COMPOSITOR: ARMANDO RODRIGUEZ

PAIS: PUERTORRICO

ALBUM: LYLI Y SU GRAN TRIO

DISCOGRÁFICA: DISCO HIT

GÉNERO: LATIN

AÑO: 2011

 “Este homenaje me ha tomado por sorpresa. Desde que comencé mi carrera, es el primero. Así que tengo que estar agradecida de Dios y de las personas que lo organizan”.

La cantante se siente agradecida por el honor que le otorga el Instituto de Cultura.

Así reaccionó la cancionera Lydia Delgado Figueroa, conocida como Lily, la directora del Gran Trío y a quien el Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña (ICP) le dedicó la XXI Velada de Tríos, en la plaza pública de Trujillo Alto.

“He tenido que luchar y trabajar para llegar al lugar donde estoy. He podido tener este trío unido, con buena vibra. Me quieren y yo adoro a la gente. Me siento feliz, pero homenajes como este, nunca. Es el primero”.

De su biografía, suministrada por el ICP a los medios, se desprende que su primer disco “Toma mi corazón” consagró a Lily y su Gran Trío en la preferencia de los amantes de la música de tríos en las comunidades hispanas de Estados Unidos.

Yo te quise con locura

Sin pensar nunca olvidarte por nada

Yo te amaba con ternura

Con temor de arrancarte de mi alma

Pero fueron tantas cosas que me hiciste

Demasiado te atreviste y de quererte me pare

Pero fueron tantas cosas que me hiciste

Demasiado te atreviste y de quererte me pare

Me pare cuando vi que en ti cruzaba

una zonda envenenada llena de odio y maldad

Me pare cuando vi que en ti cruzaba

una zonda envenenada llena de odio y maldad

Me pare por siempre mi vida

de quererte por toda tu falsedad

Me pare por siempre mi vida

de quererte por toda tu falsedad

Me pare cuando vi que en ti cruzaba

una zonda envenenada llena de odio y maldad

Me pare cuando vi que en ti cruzaba

una zonda envenenada llena de odio y maldad

Me pare por siempre mi vida

de quererte por toda tu falsedad

Me pare por siempre mi vida

de quererte por toda tu falsedad.

ODARA

GAL COSTA

COMPOSIÇÃO: CAETANO VELOSO

PAÍS: BRASIL

ÁLBUM: MINA D’ÁGUA DO MEU CANTO

GRAVADORA: SONY MUSIC

SELO: RCA RECORDS LABEL

GÊNERO: MPB

ANO: 2012

Mina d'Água do Meu Canto é o vigésimo quinto álbum de Gal Costa traz as composições, somente Caetano Veloso e Chico Buarque. A música "Futuro Amantes" composta por Chico Buarque, faz parte da trilha sonora da novela História de Amor, produzida pela Rede Globo.

Deixa eu dançar

Pro meu corpo ficar Odara

Minha cara

Minha cuca ficar Odara

Deixa eu cantar

Que é pro mundo ficar Odara

Pra ficar tudo jóia rara

Qualquer coisa que se sonhara

Canto e danço que dará.

BABALU

NEY MATOGROSSO

COMPOSITOR: MARGARIDA LECUONA

PAÍS: BRASIL

ÁLBUM: pois é...

GRAVADORA: barclay records

GÊNERO: jazz

ANO: 1983

...Pois é o nono disco solo do cantor brasileiro Ney Matogrosso, lançado em 1983. É comemorativo dos 10 anos da carreira solo de Ney, com o disco abrindo com um Pot-Pourri contendo os maiores sucessos.

Está empezando el velorio

Que le hacemos a Babalú

Dame diecisiete velas

Pa por en ellas en cruz

Dame un cabo de tabaco, mañengue

Y un jarrito de aguardiente

Dame un poco de dinero, mañengue

Pa que me de la surte

Yo le quiero pedir

Que me niego me quiera

Ai, negro

Que le tenga dinero

Y que no se muera

Yo le quiero pedir, a Babalú

Un negrito muy santo

Como tu

Que no tenga otra niega

Y que no se muera.

MATRIZ OU FILIAL

JAMELÃO

COMPOSITOR: LÚCIO CARDIM

PAÍS: BRASIL

ÁLBUM: WARNER 30 ANOS: JAMELÃO

GRAVADORA: WARNER MUSIC

GÊNERO: SAMBA

ANO: 2006

Em comemoração aos seus 30 anos de existência, a Warner lança álbuns que apresentam para você os maiores nomes da música brasileira num repertório que reúne seus grandes sucessos. Aqui, o homenageado é Jamelão, o cantor e intérprete dos sambas-enredo da escola de Samba Mangueira. Confira as faixas "Indecisão" e "Sou Verde-rosa". Realmente imperdível!

Quem sou eu

Pra ter direitos exclusivos

Sobre ela

Se eu não posso sustentar

Os sonhos dela

Se nada tenho

E cada um vale o que tem

Quem sou eu

Pra sufocar a solidão da mesma boca

Que hoje diz que sou matriz e quando louca

Se nós brigamos diz que sou a filial

Afinal

Se amar demais passou a ser o meu defeito

É bem possível que eu não tenha mais direito

De ser matriz por ter somente amor pra dar

Afinal

O que ela pensa conseguir me desprezando

Se a sua sina

Sempre foi voltar chorando

Arrependida me pedindo pra ficar.