Believe is the seventh studio album released
by the group Celtic Woman.
The album was released in two versions: the
first a compilation of earlier songs packaged with a new song, "Princess
Toyotomi", released on 25 May 2011 in Japan to promote the release of the
titular film in which said track served as the theme song, the other a studio
album released internationally on 24 January 2012, featuring new music.
Vocalists Chloë Agnew, Lisa Kelly, Lisa Lambe, and
fiddler Máiréad Nesbittappear on both versions, while the Japanese version features former
members Órla Fallon, Lynn Hilary, Méav Ní
Mhaolchatha, Alex Sharpe,
and Hayley Westenra.
The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musicaldrama filmproduced and directed by Robert Wise,
and starring Julie Andrewsand Christopher
Plummer, with Richard Haydn,
Peggy Wood, Charmian Carr, and Eleanor Parker. The
film is an adaptation of the 1959 stage musical,
composed by Richard Rodgers, with
lyrics by Oscar
Hammerstein II. The film's screenplay was
written by Ernest Lehman, adapted
from the stage musical's bookby Lindsay and Crouse.
Based on the 1949 memoir The Story of the Trapp Family Singersby Maria von Trapp, the
film is about a young Austrian postulantwho, in
1938, is sent to the villa of a retired naval officerand widowerto be governess
to his seven children.
Filming took place from March to September
1964 in Los Angeles and Salzburg. The Sound of Music was released on March 2,
1965, in the United States, initially as a limited roadshow
theatrical release. Although initial critical
response to the film was mixed, it was a major commercial success, becoming the
number one box office film after four weeks, and the
highest-grossing film of 1965. By
November 1966, The Sound of Music had become the highest-grossing
filmof all-time—surpassing Gone with the
Wind—and held that distinction for five years.
The film was just as popular throughout the world, breaking previous box-office
records in twenty-nine countries. Following an initial theatrical release that
lasted four and a half years, and two successful re-releases, the film sold 283
million admissions worldwide and earned a total worldwide gross of $286 million.
The Sound of Music received five Academy
Awards, including Best Pictureand Best Director,
Wise's second pair of both awards, the first being from the 1961 film West Side
Story. The film also received two Golden Globe
Awards, for Best Motion Pictureand Best Actress, the
Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement,
and the Writers
Guild of America Awardfor Best
Written American Musical. In 1998, the American Film
Institute(AFI) listed The Sound of Music as the fifty-fifthgreatest American film of all time, and the fourthgreatest film musical. In 2001, the United States Library of
Congressselected the film for preservation
in the National Film
Registry, finding it "culturally, historically,
or aesthetically significant".
Sandy
Leah Lima(Campinas,
28 de janeiro
de 1983)
é uma cantora, compositora
e atrizbrasileira.
Durante os primeiros anos da infância, ela e seu irmão Junior Lima
formaram uma dupla vocal. Sandy &
Junior ganharam notoriedade após uma apresentação no programa Som Brasil,
em 1989, que lhes rendeu um contrato com a PolyGram.
Depois de alcançarem o sucesso como cantores mirins, os irmãos atingiram o auge
comercial de sua carreira na adolescência: os álbuns Era Uma Vez... Ao Vivo(1998), As Quatro
Estações(1999), Quatro Estações: O Show(2000) e Sandy & Junior(2001)
venderam mais de um milhão de cópias cada, sendo que os três primeiros estão
entre os álbuns mais
vendidos de todos os tempos no Brasil. Os álbuns seguintes viram
Sandy e Junior assumindo cada vez mais o controle criativo de seus projetos. A
dupla se desfez em 2007, com o lançamento do registro ao vivo Acústico MTV. Em 2019,
eles se reuniram para uma turnê que se tornou um sucesso comercial e
de crítica. O nome dos irmãos também se tornou uma forte marca, com mais de 300
produtos licenciados que, até 2004, movimentaram mais de 300 milhões de reais.
Após
o fim da dupla em dezembro de 2007, Sandy passou os dois anos seguintes
concentrando seus esforços na produção de sua estreia na carreira solo. Além
disso, ela dedicou-se à sua vida pessoal. Em 2008, Sandy concluiu sua graduação
em Letras
pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica de
Campinas(PUC) e se casou com o músico Lucas Lima, com quem tem um
filho, nascido em junho de 2014. Em 2010, ela lançou seu álbum de estreia solo,
Manuscrito, que foi precedido pelo single "Pés Cansados"
e certificado com platina pela Pro-Música Brasil(PMB). A turnê do álbum Manuscrito deu origem ao seu
primeiro registro ao vivo, Manuscrito Ao Vivo(2011). Segundo álbum de
estúdio da cantora, Sim(2013) produziu três singles e alcançou
a nona posição no Brasil. Em 2016, Sandy lançou seu segundo álbum ao vivo, Meu Canto, que teve como carro-chefe a
canção "Me Espera"
e atingiu o topo da parada de DVDs da PMB. Em 2018, ela lançou seu
terceiro álbum de estúdio, um projeto de colaborações intitulado Nós, Voz,
Eles. Além do sucesso comercial, Sandy tem experimentado um maior
nível de aprovação da crítica com seu trabalho solo.
SONGWRITERS: ROBIN SPIELBERG; LEONARD
LIPTON & PETER YARROW
COUNTRY: U, S. A.
ALBUM: MOVING
LABEL: WARNER RECORDS
GENRE: FOLK
YEAR: 1963
Peter, Paul and Mary was an American folkgroup formed in New York City in 1961 during the American folk
music revivalphenomenon. The trio consisted of tenorPeter Yarrow, baritonePaul Stookey, and contraltoMary Travers. The
group's repertoire included songs written by Yarrow and Stookey, early songs by
Bob Dylan, and
covers of other folk musicians. They were enormously successful in the early-
and mid-1960s, with their debut album topping the charts for weeks, and helped
popularize the folk music revival. After the death of Travers in 2009, Yarrow
and Stookey continued to perform as a duo under their individual names.
Mary Travers said she was influenced by Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, and the Weavers. In the
documentary Peter, Paul & Mary: Carry It On — A Musical Legacy, members of
the Weavers discuss how Peter, Paul and Mary took over the torch of the social
commentary of folk music in the 1960s.
The group was inducted into the Vocal Group
Hall of Famein 1999. Peter, Paul and Mary
received the Sammy CahnLifetime
Achievement Award from the Songwriters
Hall of Famein 2006.
Moving is the second albumby the American
folk musictrio Peter, Paul
& Mary, released in January 1963. The
third single, "Puff, the
Magic Dragon," was a huge hit and a
defining song for the trio, reaching #2 on the Hot 100, #1 on the Easy
Listening, and #10 on the R&B Charts.
The lead-off single, "Big Boat,"
failed to chart substantially, only staying on the Top 100 for two weeks,
reaching #93. Cash Boxdescribed
it as "an exciting, fast moving folk opus." The second single,
"Settle Down (Goin' Down That Highway)," did slightly better, peaking
at #56 on the Pop charts during a 6-week run; however, it did become an easy
listening hit at #14.
Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land
called Honah Lee
Little Jackie Paper loved that rascal Puff
And brought him strings, and sealing wax, and
other fancy stuff
Oh, Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist, in a land
called Honah Lee
Puff, the magic dragon, lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist, in a land
called Honah Lee
Together they would travel on a boat with
billowed sail
Jackie kept a lookout perched on Puff's
gigantic tail
Noble kings and princes would bow whenever
they came
Pirate ships would lower their flags when
Puff roared out his name
Oh, Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist, in a land
called Honah Lee
Puff, the magic dragon, lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist, in a land
called Honah Lee
A dragon lives forever, but not so little
boys
Painted wings and giant's rings make way for
other toys
One gray night it happened, Jackie Paper came
no more
And Puff, that mighty dragon, he ceased his
fearless roar
His head was bent in sorrow, green scales
fell like rain
Puff no longer went to play along the cherry
lane
Without his lifelong friend, Puff could not
be brave
So Puff, that mighty dragon, sadly slipped
into his cave
Oh, Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist, in a land
called Honah Lee
Puff, the magic dragon, lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist, in a land
called Honah Lee.
Herman's Hermits are an English popgroup formed in
1964 in Manchesterand
fronted by singer Peter Noone. Known
for their jaunty beatsound and
Noone's tongue-in-cheek vocal style, the Hermits charted numerous transatlantic
hits in the UK and in America, where they ranked as one of the most successful
acts in the Beatles-led British Invasion. At the
pinnacle of their popularity in 1965, the group logged twenty-four consecutive
weeks in the top 10 of the US Billboardchart, and reached number one with the singles "Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter"
and "I'm Henry VIII, I Am".
Their other international hits include "I'm Into
Something Good" (their sole UK
number-one), "Can't You
Hear My Heartbeat", "Silhouettes",
"Wonderful
World", "A Must to Avoid",
"There's a
Kind of Hush", "I Can Take or
Leave Your Loving", "Something's
Happening" and "My
Sentimental Friend", all of which were
produced by Mickie Most. They
also appeared in four films, two of which were vehicles for the band.
Their chart debut was a cover of Gerry Goffinand Carole King's "I'm into
Something Good" (a then recent US Top 40
hit for Earl-Jean). In
September 1964 it replaced the Kinks' "You Really Got Me" at
number one in the UK singles chartand in December reached nº 13 in the US. The Hermits never topped
the British charts again, but in America in 1965—when Billboardmagazine ranked them America's top singles act of the year (with the
Beatles at nº 2)—they topped the Hot 100with two non-UK releases: "Mrs. Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter"
and "I’m Henry
VIII, I Am” (a cover of the 1910 Cockney-style
music hall song "I'm Henery the Eighth, I Am"). The nº 12 debut of
"Mrs. Brown" on the Hot 100 in April 1965 was the decade's third
highest (behind the Beatles' "Hey Jude"
and "Get Back").
Between late 1964 and early 1968 Herman's
Hermits never failed to reach the Top 40 in the States. Six of their 11 US Top
Tens were not released as A-side singles in their native UK, including the two
afore-mentioned number ones plus "Can't You
Hear My Heartbeat" (nº 2), "Listen People" (nº.
3), a cover of Noel Gay's 1937
song "Leaning on a
Lamp-post" (no. 9, under the title "Leaning
on the Lamp Post") and their version of Ray Davies's
"Dandy" (nº
5). Conversely they hit big in Britain between 1968 and 1970 with several major
hits which failed to register in America, among them the four Top Tens "Sunshine Girl" (nº
8), "Something's
Happening" (nº 6), "My
Sentimental Friend" (nº 2) and "Years May
Come, Years May Go" (nº 7). Their final UK
hit, "Lady Barbara" (nº
13), released in the autumn of 1970, was credited to 'Peter Noone &
Herman's Hermits'.
SONGWRITERS: Johnny Mcdaid; Foy Vance; Sean Graham; Damian Mckee; Eamon
Murray; Liam Bradley & Niamh Dune
COUNTRY: U. K.
ALBUM: GALWAY GIRL
LABEL: ASYLUM
GENRE: POP
YEAR: 2017
Edward Christopher Sheeran (/ˈʃɪərən/; born 17 February 1991)
is an English singer-songwriter. Born in Halifax, West
Yorkshire, and raised in Framlingham,
Suffolk, he began writing songs around the age of eleven. In early 2011,
Sheeran independently released the extended play Nº 5
Collaborations Project. He signed with Asylum Recordsthe same year.
Sheeran's debut album, +("Plus"),
was released in September 2011 and topped the UK Albums Chart. It
contained his first hit single "The A Team".
In 2012, Sheeran won the Brit Awardsfor Best British Male Solo Artistand British Breakthrough Act.
Sheeran's second studio album, ×("Multiply"), topped charts around the world upon its
release in June 2014. It was named the second-best-selling album worldwide of
2015. In the same year, × won Album of the Yearat the 2015 Brit Awards, and he
received the Ivor Novello
Awardfor Songwriter of the Year from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors.
A single from ×, "Thinking Out Loud",
earned him the 2016 Grammy Awardsfor Song of the
Yearand Best Pop Solo Performance.
Sheeran's third album, ÷("Divide"),
was released in March 2017, and was the best-selling
album worldwide of 2017. The first two singles
from the album, "Shape of You"
and "Castle on the Hill",
broke records in a number of countries by debuting in the top two positions of
the charts. He also became the first artist to have two songs debut in the US
top 10 in the same week. By March 2017, Sheeran had accumulated ten top 10
singles from ÷ on the UK Singles Chart,
breaking the record for most top 10 UK singles from one album. His fourth
single from ÷, "Perfect",
reached number one in the US, Australia and the UK, where it became the Christmas number onein 2017. The world's best-selling artist of 2017, he was named the Global
Recording Artist of the Year.
Released in 2019, his first collaborative album, Nº.6
Collaborations Project, debuted at number one in most
major markets, and spawned three UK number one singles, "I Don't Care",
"Beautiful
People" and "Take Me Back
to London". His fourth studio album, =("Equals"),
topped the charts in most major markets in 2021.
"Galway Girl" is a song by English
singer and songwriter Ed Sheeran. The
song is a collaboration between Sheeran and Irish folkband Beoga, and is heavily
influenced by Irish
traditional music. On Saint
Patrick's Day, 17 March 2017, Sheeran
announced the song as the third single from his 2017 album ÷, accompanied by a lyric
video.
The song entered the charts of 31 countries
around the world. It topped the charts in Ireland, Iceland, Slovenia, and
Slovakia; reached number two in the UK, Australia, Belgium, Denmark, and
Poland; and reached the top five on the charts of Germany, Hungary, Mexico, the
Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden.
"Galway Girl" was included on the
year-end top singles charts of 17 countries, including the top five of Belgium,
Denmark, Slovenia, and the UK; the top 10 of Australia, Austria, Germany, New
Zealand, and Sweden; and the top 20 of Hungary, Italy, Poland, and Switzerland.
The song was certified Platinum or
multi-Platinum in 13 countries.
She played the fiddle in an Irish band
But she fell in love with an English man
Kissed her on the neck and then I took her by
the hand
Said, "Baby, I just want to dance"
I met her on Grafton street right outside of
the bar
She shared a cigarette with me while her
brother played the guitar
She asked me what does it mean, the Gaelic
ink on your arm?
Said it was one of my friend's songs, do you
want to drink on?
She took Jamie as a chaser, Jack for the fun
She got Arthur on the table with Johnny
riding a shotgun
Chatted some more, one more drink at the bar
Then put Van on the jukebox, got up to dance
You know, she played the fiddle in an Irish
band
But she fell in love with an English man
Kissed her on the neck and then I took her by
the hand
Said, "Baby, I just want to dance"
With my pretty little Galway Girl
You're my pretty little Galway Girl
You know she beat me at darts and then she
beat me at pool
And then she kissed me like there was nobody
else in the room
As last orders were called was when she stood
on the stool
After dancing to Cèilidh singing to trad
tunes
I never heard Carrickfergus ever sang so
sweet
A capella in the bar using her feet for a
beat
Oh, I could have that voice playing on repeat
for a week
And in this packed out room swear she was
singing to me
You know, she played the fiddle in an Irish
band
But she fell in love with an English man
Kissed her on the neck and then I took her by
the hand
Said, "Baby, I just want to dance"
My pretty little Galway Girl
My, my, my, my, my, my, my Galway Girl
My, my, my, my, my, my, my Galway Girl
My, my, my, my, my, my, my Galway Girl
And now we've outstayed our welcome and it's
closing time
I was holding her hand, her hand was holding
mine
Our coats both smell of smoke, whisky and
wine
As we fill up our lungs with the cold air of
the night
I walked her home then she took me inside
To finish some Doritos and another bottle of
wine
I swear I'm gonna put you in a song that I
write
About a Galway Girl and a perfect night
She played the fiddle in an Irish band
But she fell in love with an English man
Kissed her on the neck and then I took her by
the hand
Matt Monro(born Terence Edward Parsons, 1
December 1930 – 7 February 1985) was an English singer. Known as "The Man
with the Golden Voice", he performed internationally during his 30-year
career. AllMusichas described
Monro as "one of the most underrated pop vocalists of the '60s", who
"possessed the easiest, most perfect baritonein the business".
His recordings include the UK top 10 hits
"Portrait of
My Love", "My Kind of Girl",
"Softly As I
Leave You", "Walk Away"
and "Yesterday"
(originally by the Beatles). He
also recorded several film themes such as "From Russia with Love" for
the eponymous
James Bond film, "Born Free"
for the eponymous filmand "On Days Like These"
for The Italian Job.
Monro was born Terence Edward Parsons on 1
December 1930 in Finsbury, north London, to Frederick and Alice
Parsons. He had three brothers — Arthur, Reg and Harry — and a sister, Alice.
He attended Duncombe School in Islington, and Elliott School,
Putney.
Monro had a difficult childhood. His father
died when he was three and after his mother became ill, he was fostered out for
two years. Leaving school at 14, he tried a succession of jobs without
remaining in any of them for very long, before National
Servicebeckoned in 1948. Monro became a
tank driving instructor in the British armed
forcesand was posted to Hong Kong. He had
sung in public from an early age, for example at the Tufnell Park Palais, and
in Hong Kong he took to entering local talent contests, winning several. In
fact, he became a regular guest (and frequent winner) of Radio
Rediffusion's Talent Time show in Hong Kong.
He was invited by then-host Ray Cordeiroto perform in his own one-off show entitled Terry Parsons Sings, on
the condition that he would bow out of future Talent Time episodes to make way
for others. Agreeing to the deal, he performed his first on-air concert for
Rediffusion on 27 June 1953.
Stephen Collins Foster was born on July 4,
1826, in Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania. He was a composer and lyricist who wrote
over 200 songs in his lifetime. Some of his most famous works include “Oh!
Susanna”, “Camptown Races,” and “My Old Kentucky Home.” Foster died on January
13, 1864, at the age of 37. He was very successful in selling his music to
various sheet music publishers throughout his career. Stephen Foster was the
first fully professional U.S.
Nelly Bly is a love song written by Stephen
Foster about a young woman in love with a sailor. The song was published in
1850 and was very popular at the time. It describes the young woman’s longing
for her sailor lover and sadness when he is away at sea. The lyrics are about
as classic Stephen Foster as you can get.
