YOUR SONG

AL JARREAU

SONGWRITERS: BERNIE TAUPIN & ELTON JOHN

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: GLOW

LABEL: REPRISE RECORDS

GENRE: JAZZ/POP

YEAR: 1976

 

           Alwin Lopez Jarreau(March 12, 1940 – February 12, 2017) was an American singer and musician. His 1981 album Breakin' Away spent two years on the Billboard 200 and is considered one of the finest examples of the Los Angeles pop and R&B sound. The album won Jarreau the 1982 Grammy for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. In all, he won seven Grammy Awards and was nominated for over a dozen more during his career.

            Jarreau also sang the theme song of the 1980s television series Moonlighting, and was among the performers on the 1985 charity song "We Are the World."

          Glow is the second solo album by Al Jarreau, released in 1976. 

It's a little bit funny, this feeling inside

I'm not one of those, who can easily hide

I don't have much money, but boy if I did

I'd buy a big house where we both could live

 

If I was a sculptor, but then again no

Or a man who makes potions in a travelling show

I know it's not much, but it's the best I can do

My gift is my song and this one's for you

 

And you can tell everybody, this is your song

It may be quite simple but now that it's done

I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind

That I put down in words

How wonderful life is while you're in the world

 

I sat on the roof and kicked off the moss

Well a few of the verses, well they've got me quite cross

But the sun's been quite kind while I wrote this song

It's for people like you, that keep it turned on

 

So excuse me forgetting, but these things I do

You see I've forgotten, if they're green or they're blue

Anyway, the thing is, what I really mean

Your are the sweetest eyes I've ever seen

And you can tell everybody, this is your song

It may be quite simple but now that it's done

I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind

That I put down in words

How wonderful life is while you're in the world

I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind

That I put down in words.

I WANT YOU I NEED YOU

CHRIS CHRISTIAN

SONGWRITERS: H. BROOKS & B. ELLISON

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: CHRIS CHRISTIAN

LABEL: BOARDWALK RECORDS

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 1981

 

      Chris Christian(born February 7, 1951 as Lon Christian Smith) is an American songwriter, record producer, and a record label executive. His songs have been recorded by Elvis Presley, Olivia Newton-John, Hall and Oates, Natalie Cole, Sheena Easton, The Pointer Sisters, Al Jarreau, The Carpenters, Amy Grant, Patti Austin, Dionne Warwick, America, the Imperials, B.J. Thomas, B W Stevenson, Marilyn McCoo, Dan Peek, Cheryl Ladd, Jane Olivor, Sandi Patti, Pat Boone, Ali Lohan, Donnie Osmond, and others.

             Christian has produced albums that have been nominated for nine and won four Grammy Awards. He has also been nominated for seven Gospel Music Association Dove Awards as an artist, songwriter, and producer, winning five. He has also released sixteen other albums as a solo artist.

          Throughout his career, he has written music for many major TV sports events such as the Super Bowl, NCAA finals, The Masters, Olympics, NFL Today, US Open, and many more.

It's a long, long way

From Heaven to heartache

That's a trip I never

Wanted to make

 

Since I've been gone

It just hasn't been the same

I'm afraid I've finally learned

How a heart can break

 

I want you, I need you

I'll always be with you

I found out the hard way

I can't do without you

I'll always be with you

 

I've been walking on the

Wrong side of the highway

Waking up on the

Wrong side of town

 

I could never find

Under any neon sign

Anyone that I love

Any more than you

 

I want you, I need you

I'll always be with you

I found out the hard way

I can't do without you

I'll always be with you

 

At least now

We both know I tried

(Come back to me)

I will be yours until I die

 

Oh, I want you, I need you

I'll always be with you

I found out the hard way

I can't do without you

 

I want you, I need you

I'll always be with you.

DRUME NEGRITA

MARINA DE LA RIVA

COMPOSITOR: ERNESTO GRENET

ÁLBUM: MARINA DE LA RIVA

DISCOGRÁFICA: UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP

GÉNERO: ACALANTO CUBANO/POP

AÑO: 2007

  

           Marina de La Riva é o álbum de Estreia  gravado pela cantora BRASILEIRA mARINA DE LA rIVA. Lançado em 2007 pelo selo Mousike, a sua distribuição foi feita pela gravadora Universal Music.

         O CD possui 14 faixas (escolhidas dentre um rol de 24 faixas gravadas), as quais apresentam o sincretismo entre a música cubana e brasileira. Algumas músicas de la Habana apresentam trechos de músicas brasileiras (“Tin Tin Deo”, com os dois mais famosos versos de “Xote das Meninas”, de Luiz Gonzaga e Zé Dantas; “Ojos Malignos”, com a inclusão da melodia de “Sampa” de Caetano Veloso). E também ao contrário, algumas músicas brasileiras apresentam trechos de músicas cubanas (caso de “Adeus Maria Fulô”, que contém “La Mulata Chancletera”), ou poemas de poetas cubanos (caso da poesia “Cultivo una Rosa Blanca”, de José Martí, que é declamada ao final da famosa música “Sonho Meu”). As canções cubanas foram gravadas em Cuba (com exceção de "Ojos Malignos"), as brasileiras no Brasil.

       O álbum ficou três anos em estúdio até ser concluído e chegou às lojas oficialmente no dia 25 de maio de 2007. Foi muito bem recebido não só pela crítica, mas como também pelo público, tendo boa vendagem. Fato inusitado é que nem a própria gravadora esperava que o CD obtivesse boa quantidade de vendas em tão pouco tempo.

         Através desse CD, Marina conquistou o prêmio APCA em 2007 por revelação feminina (categoria música popular). O álbum foi indicado ao Prêmio Tim de Música de 2007. Além disso, Pedro Alexandre Sanches (segundo Rita Lee, um dos críticos mais temidos pelos músicos), da revista Carta Capital, Lauro Lisboa Garcia, do jornal O Estado de S. Paulo, e Sérgio Martins, da Veja, elegeram o CD como um dos melhores de 2007. Na lista de os melhores CDs e músicas de 2007 da revista Rolling Stone, estão presentes este álbum e a canção “Sonho Meu” (mais informações logo abaixo na seção "críticas").        

Mama la negrita

se le salen los pies de la cunita

y la negra Merce

ya no sabe que hacer.

 

Tu drume, negrita

que yo va compra nueva cunita

que va tener capitel

que va tener cascabel.

 

Si tu drume yo te traigo un mamey

 muy coloradosi tu drume 

yo te traigo un babalaô

que da pao pao.

 

Tu drume negrita

que yo va compra nueva cunita

que va tener capitel

que va tener cascabel.

THE SOUND OF SILENCE

SIMON AND GARFUNKEL

SONGWRITER: PAUL SIMON

COUNTRY: U.S.A.

MUSIC FROM THE BROADWAY COMEDY

ALBUM: WEDNESDAY MORNING, 3A.M.

GRAVADORA: COLUMBIA RECORDS

GÊNERO: FOLK ROCK

ANO: 1964

"The Sound of Silence", originally "The Sounds of Silence", is a song by the American music duo Simon & Garfunkel. The song was written by Paul Simon over a period of several months in 1963 and 1964. A studio audition led to the duo signing a record deal with Columbia Records, and the song was recorded in March 1964 at Columbia Studios in New York City for inclusion on their debut album, Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M..

Released in October 1964, the album was a commercial failure and led to the duo breaking apart, with Paul Simon returning to England and Art Garfunkel to his studies at Columbia University. In spring 1965, the song began to attract airplay at radio stations in Boston, Massachusetts, and throughout Florida. The growing airplay led Tom Wilson, the song's producer, to remix the track, overdubbing electric instrumentation with the same musicians who backed Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone". Simon & Garfunkel were not informed of the song's remix until after its release. The single was released in September 1965.

The song hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the week ending January 1, 1966, leading the duo to reunite and hastily record their second album, which Columbia titled Sounds of Silence in an attempt to capitalize on the song's success. The song was a top-ten hit in multiple countries worldwide, among them Australia, Austria, West Germany, Japan and the Netherlands. Generally considered a classic folk rock song, the song was added to the National Recording Registry in the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically important" in 2013 along with the rest of the Sounds of Silence album.

Originally titled "The Sounds of Silence" on Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M., the song was re-titled for later compilations beginning with Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits.

Simon & Garfunkel foi uma dupla norte-americana de folk composta pelos cantores e compositores Paul Simon e Art Garfunkel. Eles formaram o grupo Tom & Jerry em 1957 e emplacaram seu primeiro sucesso com o single "Hey, Schoolgirl". A dupla alçou fama em 1965 como Simon & Garfunkel na esteira do sucesso de "The Sound of Silence".

Eles são mais conhecidos por suas harmonias vocais, e estão entre os artistas mais populares da década de 1960. Seus maiores sucessos – entre eles "The Sound of Silence" (1964), "I Am a Rock" (1965), "Homeward Bound" (1965), "Scarborough Fair/Canticle" (1966), "A Hazy Shade of Winter" (1966), "Mrs. Robinson" (1968), "Bridge over Troubled Water" (1969), "The Boxer" (1969) e "Cecilia" (1969) – alcançaram a primeira colocação em diversas paradas musicais. A dupla foi premiada com vários Grammys, e foi incluída no Hall da Fama do Rock and Roll em 1990, e no Hall da Fama da Música de Long Island em 2007

Hello darkness, my old friend

I've come to talk with you again

Because a vision softly creeping

Left its seeds while I was sleeping

And the vision that was planted in my brain

Still remains within the sound of silence

In restless dreams I walked alone

Narrow streets of cobblestone

'Neath the halo of a street lamp

I turned my collar to the cold and damp

When my eyes were stabbed

By the flash of a neon light

That split the night

And touched the sound of silence

And in the naked light I saw

Ten thousand people, maybe more

People talking without speaking

People hearing without listening

People writing songs

That voices never share

And no one dare

Disturb the sound of silence

Fools, said I, you do not know

Silence like a cancer grows

Hear my words that I might teach you

Take my arms that I might reach to you

But my words like silent raindrops fell

And echoed in the wells of silence

And the people bowed and prayed

To the neon God they made

And the sign flashed out it's warning

In the words that it was forming

And the sign said

The words of the prophets

Are written on the subway walls

And tenement halls

And whispered in the sound of silence