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FORTY DAYS AND FORTY NIGHTS

MUDDY WATERS
SONGWRITER: BERNARD ROTH
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: FORTY DAYS AND FORTY NIGHTS
LABEL: CHESS RECORDS
GENRE: BLUES
YEAR: 1956
 
           McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1913 – April 30, 1983), known professionally as Muddy Waters, was an American blues singer-songwriter and musician who was an important figure in the post-war blues scene, and is often cited as the "father of modern Chicago blues". His style of playing has been described as "raining down Delta beatitude".
            Muddy Waters grew up on Stovall Plantation near Clarksdale, Mississippi, and by age 17 was playing the guitar and the harmonica, emulating the local blues artists Son House and Robert Johnson. He was recorded in Mississippi by Alan Lomax for the Library of Congress in 1941. In 1943, he moved to Chicago to become a full-time professional musician. In 1946, he recorded his first records for Columbia Records and then for Aristocrat Records, a newly formed label run by the brothers Leonard and Phil Chess.
             In the early 1950s, Muddy Waters and his band—Little Walter Jacobs on harmonica, Jimmy Rogers on guitar, Elga Edmonds (also known as Elgin Evans) on drums and Otis Spann on piano—recorded several blues classics, some with the bassist and songwriter Willie Dixon. These songs included "Hoochie Coochie Man", "I Just Want to Make Love to You" and "I'm Ready". In 1958, he traveled to England, laying the foundations of the resurgence of interest in the blues there. His performance at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1960 was recorded and released as his first live album, At Newport 1960.
           Muddy Waters' music has influenced various American music genres, including rock and roll and rock music.
            "Forty Days and Forty Nights" is a blues song recorded by Muddy Waters in 1956. Called "a big, bold record", it was a hit, spending six weeks in the Billboard R&B chart, where it reached number seven. "Forty Days and Forty Nights" has been interpreted and recorded by a variety of artists.

Forty days and forty nights
Since my baby left this town
Sunshinin' all day long
But the rain keep comin' down
She's my life I need her so
Why she left I just don't know
 
Forty days and forty nights
Since I set right down and cried
Keep rainin' all the time
But the river is runnin' dry
Lord help me it just ain't right
I love that girl with all-a my might
 
Forty days and forty nights
Since my baby broke my heart
Searchin' for her in a while
Like a blind man in the dark
Love can make a poor man rich
Or break his heart I don't know which
 
Forty days and forty nights
Like a ship out on the sea
Prayin' for her each night
That she would come back-a home to me
Life is love and love is right
I hope she come back home tonight.

ESTRELA DA TARDE

CARLOS DO CARMO
COMPOSITORES: ARY DOS SANTOS & FERNANDO TORDO
PAÍS: PORTUGAL
ÁLBUM: UMA CANÇÃO PARA A EUROPA
GRAVADORA: UNIVERSAL MUSIC PORTUGAL
GÊNERO: FADO
ANO: 1976
 
           Carlos do Carmo, nome artístico de Carlos do Carmo de Ascensão Almeida, COMIH•GOM (Lisboa, 21 de dezembro de 1939 – Lisboa, 1 DE janeiro de 2021) foi um  cantor e intérprete de fado português.
             No início de 1990, sofreu um acidente durante um espetáculo em Bordéus, caindo do palco para a primeira fila da plateia, uma queda de uma altura equivalente a um andar, que o obrigou a uma longa recuperação. Em março de 1991, fez o seu regresso no Casino Estoril, apresentando um espectáculo intitulado Vim Para o Fado e Fiquei.
            Regressou à televisão, com um programa como o seu próprio nome — Carlos do Carmo — transmitido em mais de trinta emissões entre 1997 e 1998, onde conversa com diversos convidados, sobre temas que vão desde o Fado, à música em geral, mas também a outras vertentes artísticas.
              Em 2007, Carlos do Carmo apresentou, no Museu do Fado, um álbum intitulado À Noite, que reuniu textos inéditos de Nuno Júdice, Fernando Pinto do Amaral, Maria do Rosário Pedreira, Júlio Pomar, Luís Represas, José Luís Tinoco e José Manuel Mendes, para as músicas de fados tradicionais da autoria de Armandinho, Joaquim Campos e Alfredo Marceneiro.
        Em 2010, juntou-se ao pianista e compositor Bernardo Sassetti para fazer o álbum Carlos do Carmo & Bernardo Sassetti, onde recriou canções marcantes de outros intérpretes, entre elas Cantigas do Maio (Zeca Afonso), Lisboa que amanhece (Sérgio Godinho), Porto sentido (Rui Veloso), Foi por ela (Fausto Bordalo Dias), Quand On N'a Que L'Amour (Jacques Brel) ou Gracias a la vida (Violeta Parra).
           Desde o início da década de 2000, numa relação próxima com as novas gerações do Fado, promoveu atuações conjuntas com novos fadistas. Foi o caso de Mariza; — Gala de Fado do Casino Estoril, a 8 de junho de 2004, por exemplo — ou Camané; concerto de encerramento das Festas de Lisboa, nos jardins da Torre de Belém, em 2006, por exemplo.
           Essas ligações seriam reforçadas com a edição, em 2014, do álbum Fado é amor, apresentado nesse ano no Coliseu dos Recreios, onde o fadista apresentou temas gravados com Camané, Mariza, Ana Moura, Aldina Duarte, Cristina Branco, Mafalda Arnauth, Ricardo Ribeiro, Marco Rodrigues, Raquel Tavares e Carminho.
         Anunciou em 7 de fevereiro de 2019 o fim de atuação em palcos. Os seus últimos concertos foram a 12 de outubro no Theatro Circo, a 2 de novembro no Coliseu do Porto e a 9 de novembro no Coliseu dos Recreios.
            Morreu em 1 de janeiro de 2021 no Hospital de Santa Maria, em Lisboa, devido a um aneurisma.

Era a tarde mais longa de todas as tardes
Que me acontecia
Eu esperava por ti, tu não vinhas
Tardavas e eu entardecia
Era tarde, tão tarde, que a boca,
Tardando-lhe o beijo, mordia
Quando à boca da noite surgiste
Na tarde tal rosa tardia
Quando nós nos olhamos tardamos no beijo
Que a boca pedia
E na tarde ficamos unidos ardendo na luz
Que morria
Em nós dois nessa tarde em que tanto
Tardaste o sol amanhecia
Era tarde demais para haver outra noite,
Para haver outro dia. (Refrão)
Meu amor, meu amor
Minha estrela da tarde
Que o luar te amanheça e o meu corpo te guarde.
Meu amor, meu amor
Eu não tenho a certeza
Se tu és a alegria ou se és a tristeza.
Meu amor, meu amor
Eu não tenho a certeza.
 
Foi a noite mais bela de todas as noites
Que me aconteceram
Dos noturnos silêncios que à noite
De aromas e beijos se encheram
Foi a noite em que os nossos dois
Corpos cansados não adormeceram
E da estrada mais linda da noite uma festa de fogo fizeram.
 
Foram noites e noites que numa só noite
Nos aconteceram
Era o dia da noite de todas as noites
Que nos precederam
Era a noite mais clara daqueles
Que à noite amando se deram
E entre os braços da noite de tanto
Se amarem, vivendo morreram.
 
(Refrão)
Eu não sei, meu amor, se o que digo
É ternura, se é riso, se é pranto
É por ti que adormeço e acordo
E acordado recordo no canto
Essa tarde em que tarde surgiste
Dum triste e profundo recanto
Essa noite em que cedo nasceste despida
De mágoa e de espanto.
Meu amor, nunca é tarde nem cedo
Para quem se quer tanto!

IT DON'T MAKE SENSE IF YOU CAN'T MAKE PEACE

WILLY DIXON
SONGWRITER: MÁRIO DE VASCONCELOS SÁ
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: IT DON’T MAKE SENSE
LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS
GENRE: BLUES
YEAR: 1984
 
              Dixon was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, on July 1, 1915. He was one of fourteen children. His mother, Daisy, often rhymed things she said, a habit her son imitated. At the age of seven, young Dixon became an admirer of a band that featured pianista Little Brother Montgomery. He sang his first song at Springfield Baptist Church at the age of four Dixon was first introduced to blues when he served time on prison farms in Mississippi as a young teenager. Later in his teens, he learned how to sing harmony from a local carpenter, Theo Phelps, who led a gospel quintet, the Union Jubilee Singers, in which Dixon sang bass; the group regularly performed on the Vicksburg radio station WQBC. He began adapting his poems into songs and even sold some to local music groups.
               William James Dixon (July 1, 1915 – January 29, 1992) was an American blues musician, vocalist, songwriter, arranger and record producer. He was proficient in playing both the upright bass and the guitar, and sang with a distinctive voice, but he is perhaps best known as one of the most prolific songwriters of his time. Next to Muddy Waters, Dixon is recognized as the most influential person in shaping the post–World War II sound of the Chicago blues.
             Dixon's songs have been recorded by countless musicians in many genres as well as by various ensembles in which he participated. A short list of his most famous compositions includes "Hoochie Coochie Man", "I Just Want to Make Love to You", "Little Red Rooster", "My Babe", "Spoonful", and "You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover". These songs were written during the peak years of Chess Records, from 1950 to 1965, and were performed by Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter, and Bo Diddley; they influenced a generation of musicians worldwide.
             Dixon was an important link between the blues and rock and roll, working with Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley in the late 1950s. In the 1960s, his songs were adapted by numerous rock artists. He received a Grammy Award and was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

You have made great planes to span the skies
You gave sight to the blind with other men's eyes
You even made submarines stay submerged for weeks
But it don't make sense you can't make peace
 
You take one man's heart and make another man live
You even go to the moon and come back thrilled
Why you can crush any country in a matter of weeks
But it don't make sense you can't make peace
 
You can make a transfusion that can save a life
Why you can change the darkness into broad daylight
You make the deaf man hear and the dumb man speak
But it don't make sense you can't make peace.

THE LADY IS A TRAMP
TONY BENNETT
SONGWRITERS: LORENZ HART & RICHARD RODGERS
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: PERFECTLY FRANK
LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS
GENRE: JAZZ
YEAR: 1992

Anthony Dominick Benedetto (born August 3, 1926), known professionally as Tony Bennett, is an American singer of traditional pop standards, big band, show tunes, and jazz. He is also a painter, having created works under his birth name that are on permanent public display in several institutions. He is the founder of the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in Astoria, Queens, New York.
Born and raised in Astoria to an Italian-American family, Bennett began singing at an early age. He fought in the final stages of World War II as a U.S. Army infantryman in the European Theater. Afterward, he developed his singing technique, signed with Columbia Records and had his first number-one popular song with "Because of You" in 1951. Several top hits such as "Rags to Riches" followed in early 1953. He then refined his approach to encompass jazz singing. He reached an artistic peak in the late 1950s with albums such as The Beat of My Heart and Basie Swings, Bennett Sings. In 1962, Bennett recorded his signature song, "I Left My Heart in San Francisco". His career and personal life experienced an extended downturn during the height of the rock music era.
Bennett staged a comeback in the late 1980s and 1990s, putting out gold record albums again and expanding his reach to the MTV generation while keeping his musical style intact. He remains a popular and critically praised recording artist and concert performer to date. He has won 19 Grammy Awards (including a Lifetime Achievement Award, presented in 2001) and two Emmy Awards, and was named an NEA Jazz Master and a Kennedy Center Honoree. Bennett has sold over 50 million records worldwide.
Perfectly Frank is an album by Tony Bennett, released in 1992, recorded as a tribute to Frank Sinatra.
Part of Bennett's late-in-life comeback to commercial success, it achieved gold record status in the United States and in 1993 won the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance.
In 2006 it was reissued with the same contents as Perfectly Frank: An American Classic Celebrates 80, in conjunction with Bennett's 80th birthday.
She gets too hungry for dinner at eight (I'm starving)
She loves the theater and never comes late
I never bother with people that I hate
That's why this chick is a tramp

She doesn't like crap games with barons or earls
Won't go to Harlem in ermine and pearls
And I definitely won't dish our dirt with the rest of those girls
That's why the lady is a tramp

I love the free, fresh wind in my hair
Life without care
I'm so broke
It's "oke"

I hate California, it's crowded and damp
That's why the lady is a tramp (I'm a tramp)

Sometimes I go to Coney Island
Oh the beach is divine
And I love the yankees
Jeter Is just fine
I follow Rodgers and Hart
She sings every line
That's why the lady is a tramp

I love the prize fight
That isn't a fake (no fakes)
And I love to rowboat with you and your wife in Central Park Lake
She goes to the opera and stays wide awake (yes, I do)
That's why this lady is a tramp

She likes the green (green) grass (grass) under her shoes
What can I lose?
'cause I got no dough! oh no?
I'm all alone when I'm blowing my nails
That's why the lady is a tramp

I love your free, fresh, I love your handkerchief in my hand
Life without care
But I'm so broke
That's "oke"
Hates California, it's cold and it's damp
That's why the lady is a tramp
That's why this lady is a tramp
That's why the lady is a tramp.
SIMPLE MAN
LYNYRD SKYNYRD
SONGWRITERS: GARY ROSSINGTON & RONNIE VAN ZANT.
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: SIMPLE MAN
LABEL: SOUNDS OF THE SOUTH
GENRE: SOUTHERN ROCK
YEAR: 1973

Lynyrd Skynyrd (/lɛnərd ˈskɪnərd/LEN-ərdSKIN-ərd) is an American rock band formed in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1964. The group was originally named My Backyard and comprised Ronnie Van Zant (lead vocalist), Gary Rossington (guitar), Allen Collins (guitar), Larry Junstrom (bass guitar) and Bob Burns (drums). The band spent five years touring small venues under various names and with several lineup changes before deciding on "Lynyrd Skynyrd" in 1969. The band released their first album in 1973, having settled on a lineup that included basis Leon Wilkeson, keyboardist Billy Powell and guitarist Ed King. Burns left and was replaced by Artimus Pyle in 1974. King left in 1975 and was replaced by Steve Gaines in 1976. At the height of their fame in the 1970s, the band popularized the Southern rock genre with songs such as "Sweet Home Alabama" and "Free Bird". After releasing five studio albums and one live album, the band's career was abruptly halted by tragedy on October 20, 1977, when their chartered airplane crashed, killing Van Zant, Gaines, and backup singer Cassie Gaines, and seriously injuring the rest of the band.
Lynyrd Skynyrd reformed in 1987 for a reunion tour with Ronnie's brother Johnny Van Zant as lead vocalist. They continue to tour and record with co-founder Rossington (the band's sole continuous member), Johnny Van Zant, and Rickey Medlocke, who first wrote and recorded with the band from 1971 to 1972 before his return in 1996. In January 2018, Lynyrd Skynyrd announced its farewell tour, and continue touring as of October 2019. Members are also working on their fifteenth album.
In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Lynyrd Skynyrd Nº. 95 on their list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time". Lynyrd Skynyrd was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 13, 2006. To date, the band has sold 28 million records in the United States.
“Simple Man" is the last track on side one of Lynyrd Skynyrd's debut album Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd.
The song is one of Lynyrd Skynyrd's most popular songs. Since the song became available for digital download, it has become Lynyrd Skynyrd's third best-selling digital song after "Sweet Home Alabama" and "Free Bird". It has sold 1,333,000 copies in the U.S. as of November 2013.
Mama told me, when I was Young
Come sit beside me, my only son
And listen closely to what I say
And if you do this it will help you some sunny day
Oh, yeah

Oh, take your time, don't live too fast
Troubles will come, and they will pass
Go find a woman, and you'll find love
And don't forget, son, there is someone up above

And be a simple kind of man
Oh, be something you love and understand
Baby, be a simple kind of man
Oh, won't you do this for me, son
If you can?

Forget your lust for the rich man's gold
All that you need is in your soul
And you can do this, oh baby, if you try
All that I want for you, my son
Is to be satisfied

And be a simple kind of man
Oh, be something you love and understand
Baby, be a simple kind of man
Oh, won't you do this for me, son
If you can?

Boy, don't you worry, you'll find yourself
Follow your heart, and nothing else
And you can do this, oh baby, if you try
All that I want for you, my son
Is to be satisfied

And be a simple kind of man
Oh, be something you love and understand
Baby, be a simple kind of man
Oh, won't you do this for me, son
If you can?

Baby, be a simple, be a simple man
Oh, be something you love and understand
Baby, be a simple kind of man.
SMOKESTACK LIGHTNING
HOWLIN' WOLF
SONGWRITER: CHESTER BURNETT
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: SMOKESTACK LIGHTNING
LABEL: CHESS
GENRE: BLUES
YEAR: 1956

"Smokestack Lightning" (also "Smoke Stack Lightning" or "Smokestack Lightnin'") is a blues song recorded by Howlin' Wolf in 1956. It became one of his most popular and influential songs. It is based on earlier blues songs, and numerous artists later interpreted it.
Wolf had performed "Smokestack Lightning" in one form or another at least by the early 1930s, when he was performing with Charley Patton in small Delta communities. The song, called "a hypnotic one-chord drone piece", draws on earlier blues, such as Tommy Johnson's "Big Road Blues" (1928, Victor 21279), the Mississippi Sheiks' "Stop and Listen Blues" (1930, OKeh 8807), and Charley Patton's "Moon Going Down" (1930, Paramount 13014). Wolf said the song was inspired by watching trains in the night: "We used to sit out in the country and see the trains go by, watch the sparks come out of the smokestack. That was smokestack lightning." In 1951, he recorded the song as "Crying at Daybreak". It contains the line "O-oh smokestack lightnin', shinin', just like gold, oh don't you hear me cryin'", similar to the Mississippi Sheiks' lyric "A-ah, smokestack lightnin', that bell shine just like gold, now don't you hear me talkin'".
Chester Arthur Burnett(June 10, 1910 – January 10, 1976), known as Howlin' Wolf, was a Chicago blues singer, guitarist, and harmonica player. Originally from Mississippi, he moved to Chicago in adulthood and became successful, forming a rivalry with fellow bluesman Muddy Waters. With a booming voice and imposing physical presence, he is one of the best-known Chicago blues artists.
The musician and critic Cub Koda noted, "no one could match Howlin' Wolf for the singular ability to rock the house down to the foundation while simultaneously scaring its patrons out of its wits." Producer Sam Phillips recalled, "When I heard Howlin' Wolf, I said, 'This is for me. This is where the soul of man never dies.'" Several of his songs, including "Smokestack Lightnin'", "Killing Floor" and "Spoonful", have become blues and blues rock standards. In 2011, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him number 54 on its list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time".
Whoa, smokestack lightning
Shinin', just like gold
Ah, don't ya hear me cryin'?
A-whoo-hoo, ooh
Whooo...
Whoa-oh, tell me, baby
What's the, matter here?
Ah, don't ya hear me cryin'?
Whoo-hoo, whoo-hoo
Whooo...

Whoa-oh, tell me, baby
Where did ya, stay last night?
Ah, don't ya hear me cryin'?
Whoo-hoo, whoo-hoo
Whooo...
Whoa-oh, stop your train
Let a, poor boy ride
Why don't ya hear me cryin'?
Whoo-hoo, whoo-hoo
Whooo....

Whoa-oh, fare ya well
Never see, a you no more
Ah, don't ya hear me cryin'?
Ooh, whoo-hoo, whoo-hoo
Whooo...
Whoa-oh, who been here baby since
I-I been gone, a little, bitty boy?
Girl, be on
A-whoo-hoo, whoo-hoo
Whooo...