ALFIE

DIONNE WARWICK

SONGWRITERS: BACHARACH, BURT & DAVID, HAL

COUNTRY: U.S.A.

ALBUM: HERE WHERE THERE IS LOVE

LABELS:SCEPTER RECORDS, WARNER,

GENRE: R&B

YEAR,: 1967

NOTA: PRÊMIO: GRAMMY AWARD: MELHOR ARRANJO INSTRUMENTAL

         "Alfie" é o primeiro single extraído do terceiro álbum de estúdio da cantora e atriz americana Cher, Cher. Escrito por Burt Bacharach e Hal David e produzido por Sonny Bono, foi lançado em 1966 como parte da trilha sonora do filme de Lewis Gilbert Alfie e atingiu o Top 40 nos Estados Unidos e no Canadá. Outros artistas a regravar a canção incluem Dionne Warwick e Cilla Black.

What's it all about, Alfie

Is it just for the moment we live

What's it all about when you sort it out, Alfie

Are we meant to take more than we give

Or are we meant to be kind

And if only fools are kind, Alfie

Then I guess it's wise to be cruel

And if life belongs only to the strong, Alfie

What will you lend on an old golden rule

As sure as I believe there's a heaven above, Alfie

I know there's something much more

Something even non-believers can believe in

I believe in love, Alfie

Without true love we just exist, Alfie

Until you find the love you've missed you're nothing, Alfie

When you walk let your heart lead the way

And you'll find love any day, Alfie, Alfie.

ANYONE WHO HAD A HEART LYRICS

ELVIS COSTELLO

SONGWRITERS: DAVID, HAL / BACHARACH, BURT

ALBUM: PAINTED FROM MEMORY

LABEL: UNIVERSAL

GENRE: JAZZ

YEAR: 1998

Nota: Broadway musical based on the 1998 Costello-Bacharach álbum Painted From Memory

Elvis Costello, nome artístico de Declan Patrick Aloysius MacManus (Londres, 25 de agosto de 1954) é um cantor, compositor e músico britânico. Ele teve participação nos primórdios do cenário pub rock britânico no meio dos anos 70, e mais tarde foi associado aos estilos de punk rock e new wave antes de se estabilizar como uma voz única e original nos anos 80. O seu alcance musical é impressionantemente amplo. Certo crítico escreveu que “Costello, a enciclopédia do pop, pode inventar o passado sob sua própria imagem”.

Anyone who ever loved could look at me

And know that I love you

Anyone who ever dreamed could look at me

and know I dream of you

Knowing I love you so

Anyone who had a heart

Would take me in his arms and love me, too

You couldn't really have a heart and hurt me,

Like you hurt me and be so untrue

What am I to do

Every time you go away, I always say

This time it's goodbye , dear

Loving you the way I do

I take you back, without you I'd die dear

Knowing I love you so

Anyone who had a heart

Would take me in his arms and love me, too

You couldn't really have a heart and hurt me,

Like you hurt me and be so untrue

What am I to do

Knowing I love you so

Anyone who had a heart

Would take me in his arms and love me, too

You couldn't really have a heart and hurt me,

Like you hurt me and be so untrue

Anyone who had a heart would love me too

Anyone who had a hear would take me in his arms and love me too

Why won't you

WALK ON BY

DIONNE WARWICK

COMPOSITOR: HAL DAVID/BURT BACHARACH

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: LOVE IN A BOX;

LABEL: MUSICBROKERS;

GENRE: ROCK

YEAR: 2009

 

         Marie Dionne Warwick (/ˈdiːɒn/DEE-on; née Warrick; born December 12, 1940) is an American singer, actress, television host, and former Goodwill Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization.

           Warwick ranks among the 40 biggest hit makers between 1955 and 1999, based on the Billboard Hot 100 Pop Singles Charts. She is one of the most-charted female vocalists of all time, with 56 of her singles making the Billboard Hot 100 between 1962 and 1998, and 80 singles making all Billboard charts combined.

              Marie Dionne Warrick, later Warwick, was born in Orange, New Jersey to Lee Drinkard and Mancel Warrick. Her mother was manager of the Drinkard Singers, and her father was a Pullman porter, chef, record promoter and CPA. Dionne was named after her aunt on her mother's side. She had a sister, Delia ("Dee Dee"), who died in 2008, and a brother, Mancel Jr., who was killed in an accident in 1968 at age 21. Her parents were both African American, and she also has Native American, Brazilian and Dutch ancestry.

             She was raised in East Orange, New Jersey and was a Girl Scout for a time. After finishing East Orange High School in 1959, Warwick pursued her passion at the Hartt College of Music in West Hartford, Connecticut. She landed some work with her group singing backing vocals for recording sessions in New York City. During one session, Warwick met Burt Bacharach, who hired her to record demos featuring songs written by him and lyricist Hal David. She later landed her own record deal. 

If you see me walking down the street
And I start to cry
Each time we meet
Walk on by.
Walk on by.
Make believe
That you don't see the tears
Just let me grieve in private
Cause each time I see you
I break down and cry
Walk on by (Don't stop)
Walk on by (Don't stop)
Walk on by.
 
I just can't get over losing you
And so, if I seem broken and blue
Walk on by
Walk on by
Foolish pride
That's all that I have left
So let me hide
The tears and the sadness you gave me
When you said goodbye
Oh, walk on by (Don't stop)
Walk on by (Don't stop)
Walk on by (Don't stop)
Walk on...
 
Walk on by
Walk on by
Foolish pride
That's all that I have left
So let me hide
The tears and the sadness you gave me
When you said goodbye
Hm, walk on by (Don't stop)
Walk on by (Don't stop)
Walk on by (Don't stop)
Now you really got to go
So walk on by
Make believe you never see
The tears I cry
now you really got to go
So walk on by
Make believe you never see
The tears I cry...

AT THE END OF A RAINBOW

EARL GRANT

SONGWRITERS: JIMMY KRONDES &SID JACOBSON

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

 ALBUM: THE BEST OF EARL GRANT- SINGIN AND SWINGIN

LABEL: DECCA RECORDS

GENRE: JAZZ

YEAR: 1958

 

               Earl Grant (January 20, 1931 – June 10, 1970) was an American pianist, organist, and vocalist popular in the 1950s and 1960s.

             Grant was born in Idabel, Oklahoma. Though he would be known later for his keyboards and vocals, Grant also played trumpet and drums. Grant attended four music schools, eventually becoming a music teacher. He augmented his income by performing in clubs during his army service, throughout which he was stationed in Fort Bliss, Texas. Grant signed with Decca Records in 1957 and his first single "The End" reached number 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The álbum Ebb Tide (And Other Instrumental Favorites) sold over one million copies, gaining gold disc status. He recorded six more singles that made the charts, including "Swingin' Gently" (from Beyond the Reef), and six additional albums (on the Decca label) through 1968. He also recorded the album Yes Sirree! and the instrumental album Trade Winds, single-tracked on the Hammond organ and piano, featuring the love theme from the film El Cid and Chaplin's "Eternally". This album featured some realistic-sounding "tropical bird calls" produced by his electric organ. "House of Bamboo" was another big-selling single. Grant recorded 30 albums for Decca, mostly on the Brunswick label, a subsidiary of Decca.

      Several of his albums featured tenor saxophonist Plas Johnson.

           Grant also made a few appearances in films and on television, including Tender Is the Night (1962), Juke Box Rhythm (1959), It Takes a Thief (1969) and The Ed Sullivan Show (1960).

         Grant sang the title theme for the 1959 film Imitation of Life.

          He died instantly in a car accident in Lordsburg, New Mexico, at the age of 39 when the car he was driving ran off Interstate 10. He was driving from Los Angeles to an intended destination in Juarez, Mexico, for an appearance at the La Fiesta nightclub. His cousin's 17-year-old son, Roosevelt Wilson Jr., also was killed in the accident.

         On June 25, 2019, The New York Times Magazine listed Earl Grant among hundreds of artists whose material was reportedly destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire

            "The End" is a song with music by Jimmy Krondes and lyrics by Sid Jacobson. In 1958, the was released in the United States as a 1958 single by Earl Grant. Grant's single on the Decca label, featured Charles "Bud" Dant on orchestra; some pressings of the single were shown with the title "(At) The End (Of A Rainbow)".

The End

At the end of a rainbow

You'll find a pot of gold

At the end of a story

You'll find it's all been told

But our love has a treasure

Our hearts can always spend

And it has a story

Without any end

 

At the end of a river

The water stops its flow

At the end of a highway

There's no place you can go

 

But just tell me you love me

And you are only mine

And our love will go on

Till the end of time

 

At the end of a river

The water stops its flow

At the end of a highway

There's no place you can go

 

But just tell me you love me

And you are only mine

And our love will go on

Till the end of time

Till the end of time.