Cantou com os Rolling Stones, volta e meia passa uns dias
na casa-estúdio de Prince, viaja pelo mundo… e continua a ser a menina tímida
que fecha os olhos para cantar fado. Entre os concertos na Austrália e na
Estónia, está a lançar um CD, com sonoridade nova e amigos lá dentro. Ao lado
dela, sempre, o manager, Paulo Marques, a resolver problemas. Atrás de
tudo, os pais que a rodearam de música desde miúda.
Por trás do espelho quem está
De olhos fixados nos meus?
Alguém que passou por cá
E seguiu ao deus-dará
Deixando os olhos nos meus.
Quem dorme na minha cama,
E tenta sonhar meus sonhos?
Alguém morreu nesta cama,
E lá de longe me chama
Misturado nos meus sonhos.
Tudo o que faço ou não faço,
Outros fizeram assim
Daí este meu cansaço
De sentir que quanto faço
Não é feito só por mim.
GIVE ME JUST A LITTLE MORE TIME
CHAIRMEN OF THE BOARD
SONGWRITERS:
EDYTHE WAYNE & RON DUNBAR
COUNTRY: USA
ALBUM: THE
CHAIRMEN OF THE BOARD
LABEL: INVICTUS
RECORDS
GENRE: SOUL
YEAR: 1970
Chairmen
of the Board is an American-Canadian, Detroit, Michigan-based soul music group,
who saw their greatest commercial success in the 1970s.
"Give
Me Just a Little More Time" is the debut single for Chairmen of the Board,
released in 1970 through Capitol Records on Holland–Dozier–Holland's Invictus
Records label.
The song
was written and produced by Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Edward Holland, Jr.,
and Ron Dunbar. Because of the then still-pending lawsuit against
Holland-Dozier-Holland from their former employers, Motown, the trio credited
themselves with the pseudonym "Edythe Wayne" for this song and many
other early Invictus/Hot Wax releases. "Give Me Just a Little More
Time" features Chairmen of the Board lead Singer General Johnson as the
narrator, begging a lover not to rush intimacy: "We both want the
sweetness in life/ But these things don't come overnight."
Members
of Motown's in-house band, The Funk Brothers, who played all of
Holland-Dozier-Holland's previous hits, played on this recording as well as
many other Invictus/Hot Wax recordings.
"Give
Me Just a Little More Time", backed with "Since the Days of Pigtails
& Fairytales", peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United
States, making it the best-performing of the Chairmen's singles, and the first
of the Chairmen's four Billboard Hot 100 Top 40 pop hits. The single also
peaked at number-eight on the Billboard R&B Singles chart. It reached
number three in the UK Singles Chart in September 1970, having already sold
more than one million copies in the US. The first Chairmen of the Board LP, a
self-titled release, included the single; after the single's success, the Chairmen
of the Board album was reissued as Give Me Just a Little More Time.
In 1982, American R&B singer Angela Clemmons remade
the song and it peaked at #4 on Billboard's Hot Dance Music/Club Play Singles
chart.
Give me just a little more
time (Give me just a little more time)
And our love will surely
grow (Give me just a little more time)
Give me just a little more
time (Give me just a little more time)
And our love will surely
grow (Give me just a little more time)
Life's too short to make a
mistake
Let's think of each other
and hesitate
Young and impatient we may
be
There's no need to act
foolishly
If we part our hearts won't
forget it
Years from now we'll surely
regret it
Give me just a little more
time (Give me just a little more time)
And our love will surely
grow (Give me just a little more time)
Give me just a little more
time (Give me just a little more time)
And our love will surely
grow (Give me just a little more time)
You're young and you're in
a hurry
You're eager for love, but
don't you worry
We both want the sweetness
in life
But these things don't come
overnight
Don't give up 'cause love
seems slow
Girl, we're gonna succeed
with another blow
Just give me just a little
more time (Give me just a little more time)
And our love will surely
grow (Give me just a little more time)
Baby, please, baby (Give me
just a little more time)
Baby, please, baby (Give me
just a little more time)
Love is that mountain we
must climb
Let's climb it together,
your hand in mine
We haven't known each other
too long
But the feeling I have is,
oh, so strong
I know we can make it,
there's no doubt
We owe it to ourselves to
find it out
Just give me just a little
more time
And our love will surely
grow
Give me just a little more
time (Give me just a little more time)
And our love will surely
grow (Give me just a little more time)
Give me just a little more
time (Give me just a little more time)
And our love will surely
grow (Give me just a little more time)
Baby, please, baby (Give me
just a little more time)
Baby, please, baby (Give me
just a little more time).
(DON'T
FEAR) THE REAPER
BLUE
ÖYSTER CULT
SONGWRITER:
DONALD “BUCK DHARMA” ROESER
COUNTRY: USA
ÁLBUM: AGENTE
OF FORTUNE
LABEL:
COLUMBIA
GENRE:
HARD ROCK
YEAR:
1976
Blue
Öyster Cult(often abbreviated BÖC or BOC) is an American rock band formed on Long
Island, New York in 1967, perhaps best known for the singles "(Don't Fear)
The Reaper", "Burnin' for You", "Cities on Flame with Rock
and Roll", and "Godzilla." Blue Öyster Cult has sold more than
24 million records worldwide, including 7 million in the United States alone. The
band's music videos, especially "Burnin' for You," received heavy
rotation on MTV when the music television network premiered in 1981, cementing
the band's contribution to the development and success of the music video in
modern popular culture.
Blue
Öyster Cult's longest-lasting and most commercially successful lineup included Donald
"Buck Dharma" Roeser (lead guitar, vocals), Eric Bloom (lead vocals,
"stun guitar," keyboards, synthesizers), Allen Lanier(keyboards,
rhythm guitar, backing vocals), Joe Bouchard(bass, vocals), Albert Bouchard (drums,
percussion, vocals). The band's current lineup includes Roeser and Bloom, as
well as Danny Miranda (bass, backing vocals), Jules Radino (drums, percussion)
and Richie Castellano(keyboard, rhythm guitar, backing vocals).
"(Don't
Fear) The Reaper" is a song by American rock band Blue Öyster Cult from
the band's 1976 album Agents of Fortune. The song, written and sung by lead
guitarist Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser, deals with eternal love and
the inevitability of death. Dharma wrote the song while picturing an early death for himself.
Released
as an edited single (omitting the slow building interlude in the original), the
song was Blue Öyster Cult's highest chart success, reaching #7 in Cash Box and
#12 on the Billboard Hot 100 in late 1976. Critical reception was mainly
positive, and in 2004, "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" was listed at number
405 on the Rolling Stone list of the top 500 songs of all time.
All our times have come
Here but now they're gone
Seasons don't fear the reaper
Nor do the wind, the sun or the rain
And we can be like they are
Come on baby (don't fear the reaper)
Baby take my hand (don't fear the reaper)
We'll be able to fly (don't fear the reaper)
Baby I'm your man
La la la la la la
La la la la la la
Valentine is done
Here but now they're gone
Romeo and Juliet
Are together in eternity (Romeo and Juliet)
Forty thousand men and women everyday (like Romeo and Juliet)
Forty thousand men and women everyday (redefine happiness)
Another forty thousand comin' everyday (and we can be like they are)
Come on baby (don't fear the reaper)
Baby take my hand (don't fear the reaper)
We'll be able to fly (don't fear the reaper)
Baby I'm your man
La la la la la la
La la la la la la
Love of two is one
Here but now they're gone
Came the last night of sadness
And it was clear she couldn't go on
Then the door was open and the wind appeared
The candles blew and then disappeared
The curtains flew and then he appeared (saying don't be afraid)
Come on baby (and she had no fear)
And she ran to him (then they started to fly)
They looked backward and said goodbye (she had become like they are)
She had taken his hand (she had become like they are)
Come on baby (don't fear the reaper).
A HORSE
WITH NO NAME
AMERICA
SONGWRITER:
DEWEY BUNNELL
COUNTRY: USA
ALBUM: AMERICA
LABEL: WARNER
BROS
GENRE: FOLK
ROCK
YEAR:
1971
America is
an American rock band that was formed in London in 1970 by Dewey Bunnell, Dan
Peek, and Gerry Beckley. The trio met as sons of US Air Force personnel
stationed in London, where they began performing live.
Achieving
significant popularity in the 1970s, the trio was famous for its close vocal
harmonies and light acoustic folk rock sound. The band released a string of hit albums and
singles, many of which found airplay on pop/soft rock stations.
The band
came together shortly after the members' graduation from high school, and a
record deal with Warner Bros. Records followed. Its debut 1971 album, America,
included the transatlantic hits "A Horse with No Name" and "I
Need You"; Homecoming(1972) included the single "Ventura Highway";
and Hat Trick(1973), a modest success on the charts that fared poorly in sales,
included one minor hit song "Muskrat Love". 1974's Holiday featured
the hits "Tin Man" and "Lonely People"; and 1975's Hearts generated
the number one single "Sister Golden Hair" alongside "Daisy Jane"
History: America's Greatest Hits, a compilation of hit singles, was released
the same year and was certified multiplatinum in the United States and
Australia. Peek left the group in 1977, and their commercial fortunes declined,
despite a brief return to the top in 1982 with the single "You Can Do
Magic".
"A
Horse with No Name" is a song written by Dewey Bunnell, and originally
recorded by the folk rock band America. It was the band's first and most
successful single, released in late 1971 in Europe and early 1972 in the United
States, and topped the charts in Canada, Finland, and the United States. It was
certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America.
America's
self-titled debut album was released initially in Europe, without "A Horse
with No Name", and achieved only moderate success. Originally called
"Desert Song", "Horse" was written while the band was
staying at the home studio of musician Arthur Brown, near Puddletown, Dorset. The
first two demos were recorded there, by Jeff Dexter and Dennis Elliott, and
were intended to capture the feel of the hot, dry desert that had been depicted
at the studio from a Salvador Dalí painting, and the strange horse that had
ridden out of an M.C. Escher picture. Writer Dewey Bunnell also says he
remembered his childhood travels through the Arizona and New Mexico desert when
his family lived at Vandenberg Air Force Base. Bunnell has explained that
"A Horse with No Name" was "a metaphor for a vehicle to get away
from life's confusion into a quiet, peaceful place".
Trying to
find a song that would be popular in both the United States and Europe, Warner
Brothers was reluctant to release Beckley's "I Need You" ballad as
the first single from America. The label asked the band if it had any other
material, then arranged for America to record four more songs at Morgan Studios,
Willesden in London. "A Horse with No Name" was released as the
featured song on a three-track single in the UK, Ireland, France, Italy and the
Netherlands in late 1971. On the release, "A Horse with No Name" shared the A-side
with "Everyone I Meet Is from California"; "Sandman"
featured on the B-side. However, its early-1972 two-track US release did not
include "Sandman", with "Everyone I Meet Is from
California" appearing on the B-side.
On the first part of the journey I was looking at all the life
There were plants and birds and rocks and things
There was sand and hills and rings
The first thing I met was a fly with a buzz
And the sky with no clouds
The heat was hot and the ground was dry
But the air was full of sound
I've been through the desert on a horse with no name
It felt good to be out of the rain
In the desert you can't remember your name
'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
After two days in the desert sun my skin began to turn red
After three days in the desert fun, I was looking at a river bed
And the story it told of a river that flowed
Made me sad to think it was dead
You see I've been through the desert on a horse with no name
It felt good to be out of the rain
In the desert you can't remember your name
'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
After nine days I let the horse run free
'Cause the desert had turned to sea
There were plants and birds and rocks and things
There was sand and hills and rings
The ocean is a desert with it's life underground
And a perfect disguise above
Under the cities lies a heart made of ground
But the humans will give no love
You see, I've been through the desert on a horse with no name
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