ALFONSINA Y EL MAR
MERCEDES SOSA
COMPOSITORES: ARIEL RAMÍREZ & FÉLIX LUNA
PAIS: ARGENTINA
ÁLBUM: MUJERES ARGENTINAS
DISCOGRÁFICA: PHILIPS RECORDS
GÉNERO: MUSICA ANDINA
AÑO: 1969

Haydée Mercedes Sosa(San Miguel de Tucumán, 9 de julio de 1935-Buenos Aires, 4 de octubre de 2009) fue una cantante de música folclórica argentina, considerada la mayor exponente del folklore argentino. Se la conoció como La Voz de América Latina.
Fundadora Del Movimiento del Nuevo Cancionero y una de las exponentes de la Nueva canción latinoamericana. Incursionó en otros géneros como El tango, el rock y el pop. Se definía a sí misma como «cantora» antes que «cantante», siendo una distinción fundamental de la nueva canción latinoamericana de la que ella fue una de las iniciadoras: «Cantante es el que puede y cantor el que debe» (Facundo Cabral).
Ese ideal fue expresado por Mercedes Sosa en los títulos de sus álbumes como Canciones con fundamento y Yo no canto por cantar. Entre las interpretaciones con que se ha destacado en el cancionero latinoamericano se encuentran «Al Jardín de la República», «Canción con todos», «Alfonsina y el mar», «Gracias a la vida», «Como la cigarra», «Zamba para no morir», «Solo le pido a Dios», «La maza», «Todo cambia», «Duerme negrito», «Calle angosta».
Entre sus discos se destacaron Canciones con fundamento(1965), Yo no canto por cantar(1966), Mujeres argentinas(1969), Homenaje a Violeta Parra(1971), Cantata sudamericana(1972), Mercedes Sosa interpreta a Atahualpa Yupanqui(1977), Mercedes Sosa en Argentina(1982), Alta fidelidad(1997), su interpretación de la Misa criolla(2000) y Cantora (2009). Cantora, su último trabajo, lanzado poco antes de su muerte, es un álbum doble donde interpreta 34 canciones a dúo con destacados cantantes iberoamericanos, y cierra con el Himno nacional argentino.
Por la blanda arena que lame el mar
Su pequeña huella no vuelve más
Un sendero solo de pena y silencio llegó
Hasta el agua profunda
Un sendero solo de penas mudas llegó
Hasta la espuma

Sabe Dios qué angustia te acompañó
Que dolores viejos calló tu voz
Para recostarte arrullada en el canto de las
Caracolas marinas
La canción que canta en el fondo oscuro del mar
La caracola

Te vas Alfonsina con tu soledad
¿Qué poemas nuevos fuiste a buscar?
Una voz antigua de viento y de sal
Te requiebra el alma y la está llevando
Y te vas hacia allá, como en sueños
Dormida, Alfonsina, vestida de mar

Cinco sirenitas te llevarán
Por caminos de algas y de coral
Y fosforescentes caballos marinos harán
Una ronda a tu lado
Y los habitantes del agua van a jugar
Pronto a tu lado

Bájame la lámpara un poco más
Déjame que duerma Nodriza en paz
Y si llama él no le digas que estoy
Dile que Alfonsina no vuelve
Y si llama él no le digas nunca que estoy
Di que me he ido

Te vas Alfonsina con tu soledad
¿Qué poemas nuevos fuiste a buscar?
Una voz antigua de viento y de sal
Te requiebra el alma y la está llevando
Y te vas hacia allá como en sueños
Dormida, Alfonsina, vestida de mar.
WHAT KIND OF FOOL
BARBARA STREISAND & BARRY GIBB
SongwriterS: ALBHY GALUTEN & BARRY GIBB
Country: U. S. A. & U. K.
Album: guilty
Label: COLUMBIA RECORDS
Genre: R&B
Year: 1980

"What Kind of Fool" is the title of a vocal duet from 1981 (see 1981 in music) by singers Barbra Streisand and Barry Gibb. The song was written by Gibb and Albhy Galuten.
The songs on the Guilty album were a collaboration between Streisand and all the members of the Bee Gees, including Barry's brothers, Robin and Maurice Gibb. But Barry Gibb played the largest role of the brothers on the album, co-writing and co-producing all of the tracks, appearing on the album cover embracing Streisand, and singing two duets with her. Co-producer Karl Richardson was quoted describing Barry Gibb's contribution to this song: "He did the demo first. Barbra sang to the demo, then he came back and replaced a couple of things after he had heard what she was doing."
Released as the third single from Streisand's 1980 album Guilty, "What Kind of Fool" was the third consecutive top ten single from the album in the United States. "Woman in Love" reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and the album's title track(also a duet between the two singers) reached number three, both in late 1980. "What Kind of Fool" spent three weeks at number ten on the Hot 100 in March and April 1981. It also spent four weeks atop the Billboard adult contemporary chart.
There was a time when we were down and out
There was a place when we were starting over
We let the bough break
We let the heartache in
Who's sorry now?

There was a world when we were standing still
And for a moment we were separated...
And then you found her
You let the stranger in
Who's sorry now?

Who's sorry now?

What , what kind of fool
Tears it apart
Leaving me pain and sorrow?

Losing you now
Wonderin' why
Where will I be tomorrow?

Forever more that's what we are to be
Without each other
We'll be remembering when...

There was a time when we were down and out
We cried...
There was a place when we were starting over
We lied...
We let the bough break
We let the heartache in
Who's sorry now?
Who's sorry now?

What , what kind of fool
What , what kind of fool
Tears it apart
Tears it apart
Leaving me pain and sorrow?
Oh! Losing you now
How can I win?
Where will I be tomorrow?

Was there a moment when I cut you down?
Played around?
What have I done?!
I only apologize
For being, as they say, the last to know
It has to show
When someone is in your eyes...

What, what kind of fool
Tears it apart
Leaving me pain and sorrow?
Losing you now
Wondering why
Where will I be tomorrow?
What, what kind of fool
Tears it apart
Leaving me pain and sorrow?
Losing you now
How can I win
Where will I be tomorrow?
IN SPITE OF ME
MORPHINE
SONGWRITER: MARK SANDMAN
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: CURE FOR PAINE
LABEL: RYKODISC RECORDS
GENRE: ALTERNATIVE ROCK
YEAR: 1993

Cure for Pain was the second album released by alternative rock band Morphine through Rykodisc in 1993. Original drummer, Jerome Deupree, was replaced by Billy Conway during the recording of the album.
The tracks "Sheila" and "In Spite of Me" were prominently featured on the soundtrack of the 1994 independent film Spanking the Monkey. The video for "Thursday" also appeared on an episode of Beavis and Butt-head. The track "Buena" also appears in the first season of The Sopranos and in the Daria episode "The Teachings of Don Jake". In 2014, the album placed eighth on the Alternative Nation site's "Top 10 Underrated '90s Alternative Rock Albums" list.
As of 1995 it has sold 107,000 copies in United States and over 300,000 copies worldwide. As of 2017 combined sales of Cure for Pain and Yes are 661,000 sold copies in United States.
Morphine was an American alternative rock group formed by Mark Sandman, Dana Colley, and Jerome Deupree in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1989. After five successful albums and extensive touring, they disbanded in 1999 after frontman Sandman died of a heart attack. Founding members have reformed into the band Vapors of Morphine, maintaining much of the original style and sound.
Morphine combined blues and jazz elements with more traditional rock arrangements, giving the band an unusual sound. Sandman sang distinctively in a "deep, laid-back croon", and his songwriting featured a prominent beat influence. The band themselves coined the label "low rock" to describe their music, which involved "a minimalist, low-end sound that could have easily become a gimmick: a "power trio" not built around the sound of na electric guitar. Instead, Morphine expanded its offbeat vocabulary on each album.
Last night I told a stranger all about you
They smiled patiently with disbelief
I always knew you would succeed no matter what you tried
And I know you did it all in spite of me
Still I'm proud to have know you for the short time that I did
Glad to have been a step up on your way
Proud to be part of your illustrious career
And I know you did it all in spite of me
In spite of me
Late last night I saw you in my living room
You seemed so close but yet so cold
For a long time I thought that you'd be coming back to me
Those kind of thoughts can be so cruel
So cruel and I know you did it all in spite of me
In spite of me.
YOUR SWEETNESS IS MY WEAKNESS

BARRY WHITE
SONGWRITER: BARRY WHITE
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: THE MAN
LABEL: 20TH CENTURY FOX RECORDS
GENRE: SOUL
YEAR: 1978

Barry White(born Barry Eugene Carter; September 12, 1944 – July 4, 2003) was an American singer, songwriter and composer.
A three-time Grammy Award–winner known for his distinctive bass-baritone voice and romantic image, White's greatest success came in the 1970s as a solo singer and with The Love Unlimited Orchestra, crafting many enduring soul, funk, and disco songs such as his two biggest hits, "You're the First, the Last, My Everything" and "Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe".
During the course of his career in the music business, White achieved 106 gold albums worldwide, 41 of which also attained platinum status. White had 20 gold and 10 platinum singles, with worldwide record sales in excess of 100 million, White is one of the world's best-selling artists of all time. His influences included the Rev. James Cleveland, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, and Elvis Presley plus Motown artists The Supremes, the Four Tops, and Marvin Gaye.
Ooh, girl, you know like I know, uh-huh
What your lovin', girl, has done for me
Like a Mona Lisa hangin' on a wall, uh-huh

You're a lovely sight, lovely sight to see, mmm, hmm
The way you give me your sweet love
Any place and time when you look at me I get weak in my knees
I'm so thankful that you're mine

Your sweetness is my weakness, yeah
Girl, your sweetness is my weakness, yeah, yeah
Sweetness is my weakness, well
You sweetness is my weakness

They all say that I'm a fool, uh-huh
For lovin' you, for lovin' you this way
But sure as I am, I don't give a damn
About what the people, what the people say

Other girls try to imitate you
With the other boys, uh-huh
But I'm the only boy 'round here
Whose got the real macoy

Sweetness is my weakness, yeah, yeah
Sweetness is my weakness, yeah (Uh-huh), yeah (Uh-huh)
Sweetness is my weakness, yeah (Ooh), yeah (Ooh)
Sweetness is my weakness, yeah, yeah

Sweetness is my weakness.