OVERJOYED

ESPERANZA SPALDING

SONGWRITER: STEVIE WONDER

COUNTRY: U.S.A.

ALBUM: OVERJOYED

LABEL: HEADS UP

GENRE: JAZZ

YEAR: 2008

The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song is an award given to a composer or performer for his or her lifetime contributions to popular music. Created in 2007 by the United States Library of Congress, the prize is named after brothers George and Ira Gershwin, whose contributions to popular music included songs such as "I Got Rhythm," "Embraceable You," and "Someone to Watch Over Me," the orchestral pieces Rhapsody in Blue and An American in Paris, and the opera Porgy and Bess. Smokey Robinson was named the 2016 recipient.

On September 3, 2008, the Library announced that Stevie Wonder would become the second recipient of the honor. President Barack Obama presented Wonder with the Library of Congress' Gershwin Prize at a February 25, 2009 White House ceremony. Performers included Wonder as well as India.Arie, Tony Bennett, Wayne Brady, Anita Johnson, Diana Krall, Mary Mary, Martina McBride, Rickey Minor, Paul Simon, Esperanza Spalding and will.i.am.

Over time

I've been building my castle of love

Just for two

Though you never knew you were my reason

I''ve gone much too far

For you now to say

That I've got to throw

My castle away

Over dreams

I have picked out a perfect come true

Though you never knew it was of you I've been dreaming

The sand man has come

From too far away

For you to say come

Back some other day

And though you don't believe that they do

They do come true

For did my dreams

Come true when I looked at you

And maybe too if you would believe
You too might be

Overjoyed

Over love

Over me

Over hearts

I have painfully turned every stone

Just to find

I have found what I've

searched to discover

I come much too far

For me now to find

The love that I sought

Can never be mine

And though you don't believe that they do

They do come true

For did my dreams

Come true when I looked at you

And maybe too if you would believe

You too might be

Overjoyed

Over love

Over me

And though the odds say improbable

What do they know

For in romance

All true love needs is a chance

And maybe with a chance you will find

You too like I

Overjoyed

Over love

Over you

Over you.

HAPPY PILLS

NORAH JONES

SONGWRITER: NORAH JONES & DANGER MOUSE

COUNTRY: U.S.A.

ALBUM: LITTLE BROKEN HEARTS

LABEL: PARLOPHONE

GENRE: JAZZ

YEAR: 2012

Little Broken Hearts é o quinto álbum de estúdio de Norah Jones, lançado a 1 de maio de 2012. Happy Pills foi lançado como single do álbum em 6 de março de 2012, recebendo críticas em sua maioria positivas. O segundo single, "Miriam", foi lançado em 25 de julho de 2012.

Trying to pick up the pace,

Trying to make it so I never see your face again.

Time to throw this away,

Want to make sure that

You never waste my time again.

How does it feel?

Oh how does it feel to be you right now dear?

You broke this apart,

So pick up your piece and go away from here.

Please just let me go now.

Please just let me go.

Would you please just let me go now?

Please just let me go.

Out of my, get you out of my,

Get you out of, God,

Get you out of my head.

Get Out.

Gotta get you out of my,

Gotta get you out of, God,

Gotta get you out of my head.

Get Out.

Never said we'd be friends,

Trying to keep myself away from you,

'Cause you're bad, bad news.

With you gone, I'm alive,

Makes me feel like I took happy pills,

And time stands still.

How does it feel?

Oh how does it feel to be the one shut out?

You broke all the rules.

I won't be a fool for you no more my dear.

Please just let me go now.

Please just let me go.

Would you please just let me go now?

Please just let me go.

Out of my, get you out of my,

Get you out of, God,

Get you out of my head.

Get Out.

Gotta get you out of my,

Gotta get you out of, God,

Gotta get you out of my head.

Get Out.

SO NICE

DIANA KRALL

SONGWRITER: MARCOS VALLE

ORIGINAL: SAMBA DE VERÃO

COUNTRY: CANADA

ALBUM: QUIET NIGHTS

LABEL: VERVE RECORDS

GENRE: JAZZ

YEAR: 2009

Quiet Nights is the tenth studio album by Canadian singer Diana Krall, released on March 31, 2009 by Verve Records. The album marks Krall's first work with arranger Claus Ogerman since 2002's Live in Paris, and her first studio work with Ogerman since 2001'sThe Look of Love. In 2010, the title track earned Claus Ogerman the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s).

The album's title comes from the English-language title of the bossa nova standard "Corcovado", written by Antonio Carlos Jobim and first made popular in the early 1960s. The title track is one of three selections written or co-written by Jobim. Krall had previously included the Jobim-penned "How Insensitive" ("Insensatez") on her 2006 release From This Moment On, and performed Jobim's "The Boy from Ipanema" with Rosemary Clooney on the latter's 2000 album Brazil.

Someone to hold me tight

That would be very nice

Someone to love me right

That would be very nice

Someone to understand each little dream in me

Someone to take my hand and be a team with me

So nice life would be so nice

If one day I find

Someone who would take my hand and samba through life with me

Someone to cling to me stay with me right or wrong

Someone to sing to me some little samba song

Someone to take my heart and give his heart to me

Someone who's ready to give love a start with me

Oh yes that would be so nice, nice

Should it be you and me

I could see it would be nice

Someone to cling to me stay with me right or wrong

Someone to sing to me some little samba song

Someone to take my heart and give his heart to me

Someone who's ready to give love a start with me

Oh yes, life would be so nice, nice

Should it be you and me

I could see it would nice

DON'T WAIT TOO LONG

MADELEINE PEYROUX

SONGWRITER: MADELEINE PEYROUX; LARRY KLEIN & JESSE HARRIS

COUNTRY: U.S.A.

ALBUM: CARELESS LOVE

LABEL: ROUNDER RECORDS

GENRE: JAZZ

YEAR: 2004

"Don't Wait Too Long" is the only original track from Madeleine Peyroux's second solo album Careless Love and it was written by Peyroux herself, Jesse Harris and Larry Klein. The song was released as a single, so Rounder Records made an EP, which also contained an acoustic version of "Don't Cry Baby" (a Bessie Smith cover). In 2006, at a concert in Moore, Peyroux was quoted saying that her "whole life is in this song".

Madeleine Peyroux (Athens, 1974) é uma cantora de jazz americana, que escreve e interpreta suas próprias composições e letras. É especialmente lembrada por seu estilo vocal, que em muito lembra o estilo da cantora Billie Holiday.

Peyroux nasceu no estado da Geórgia, no Sul dos Estados Unidos, mas viveu também na Califórnia, na cidade de Nova Iorque e em Paris. O seu pai era um aspirante de actor que "ouvia música a toda a hora" e a sua mãe era uma professora de francês. Peyroux, que já classificou os seus pais como "educadores excêntricos" e "hippies", aprendeu a tocar o ukelele da sua mãe quando ainda era criança. Numa entrevista que deu no programa "Live From Abbey Road", disse que a música era a forma de estarem todos juntos eM um local "especial e escondido" da casa.

You can cry a million tears

You can wait a million years

If you think that time will change your ways

Don't wait too long

When your morning turns to night

Who'll be loving you by candlelight

If you think that time will change your ways

Don't wait too long

Maybe I got a lot to learn

Time can slip away

Sometimes you got to lose it all

Before you find your way

Take a chance, play your part

Make romance, it might break your heart

But if you think that time will change your ways

Don't wait too long

It may rain, it may shine

Love will age like fine red wine

But if you think that time will change your ways

Don't wait too long

Maybe you and I got a lot to learn

Don't wait another day

Maybe you got to lose it all

Before you find your way

Take a chance, play your part

Make romance, it might break your heart

But if you think that time will change your ways

Don't wait too long

Don't wait

Hmm... Don't wait