Mediterráneo
es el octavo álbum y el más reconocido del cantautor Joan Manuel Serrat,
editado en 1971 por la compañía discográfica Zafiro/Novola, contiene algunas de
sus canciones más populares.
Todos
los temas fueron compuestos por Joan Manuel Serrat, letra y música, excepto la
letra de Vencidos, basado en un poema de León Felipe.
Con
arreglos de Juan Carlos Calderón, Gian Piero Reverberi y Antoni Ros-Marbà y con
dirección musical de los dos primeros.
Em 2004,
la revista musical Rockdelux, con motivo de su 20º aniversario, publicó un
número especial de 198 páginas con una lista de «los mejores 100 discos
españoles del siglo XX» según criterios de sus colaboradores, Mediterráneo quedó
clasificado en tercer lugar.
Joan
Manuel Serrat Teresa (Barcelona, 27 de diciembre de 1943) es un cantautor, compositor,
actor, escritor, poeta y músico español.
Su obra
tiene influencias de otros poetas, como Mario Benedetti, Antonio Machado, Miguel
Hernández, Rafael Alberti, Federico García Lorca, Pablo Neruda, Joan
Salvat-Papasseit y León Felipe entre otros; así como de diversos géneros, como
el folklore catalán, la copla española, el tango, el bolero y del cancionero
popular de Latinoamérica, pues ha versionado canciones de Violeta Parra y de Víctor
Jara. Es uno de los pioneros de lo que se dio en llamar La Nova Cançó catalana.
Joan Manuel Serrat es conocido también con los sobrenombres de El noi del
Poble-sec(‘el chico Del Pueblo Seco’, su barrio natal) y el Nano.
Ha sido reconocido con nueve doctorados Honoris Causa por
su contribución a la música y literatura española, además del Grammy Latino
“Persona del Año” en 2014, entre otros importantes galardones.
Quizá porque mi niñez sigue jugando en tu playa
Y
escondido tras las cañas duerme mi primer amor
Llevo
tu luz y tu olor por donde quiera que vaya
Y
amontonado en tu arena guardo amor, juegos y penas
Yo
que en la piel tengo el sabor amargo del llanto eterno
Que
han vertido en ti cien pueblos, de Algeciras a Estambul
Para
que pintes de azul sus largas noches de invierno
A
fuerza de desventuras tu alma es profunda y oscura
A tus
atardeceres rojos se acostumbraron mis ojos
Como
el recodo al camino
Soy
cantor, soy embustero
Me
gusta el juego y el vino, tengo alma de marinero
¿Qué
le voy a hacer si yo nací en el Mediterráneo?
Nací
en el Mediterráneo
Y te
acercas, y te vas después de besar mi aldea
Jugando
con la marea te vas, pensando en volver
Eres
como una mujer perfumadita de brea
Que
se añora y que se quiere, que se conoce y se teme
Ay,
si un día para mi mal viene a buscarme la parca
Empujad
al mar mi barca con un levante otoñal
Y
dejad que el temporal desguace sus alas blancas
Y a
mí enterradme sin duelo entre la playa y el cielo
En la
ladera de un monte, más alto que el horizonte
Quiero
tener buena vista
Mi
cuerpo será camino
Le
daré verde a los pinos y amarillo a la genista
Cerca
del mar, porque yo nací en el Mediterráneo
Nací
en el Mediterráneo
Nací
en el Mediterráneo.
FREE STONE
YUYA UCHIDA & THE FLOWERS
SONGWRITER: JIMMI HENDDRIX
COUNTRY: JAPAN
ALBUM: CHALLENGE!
LABEL: NIPPON COLUMBIA
GENRE: PSYCHEDELIC ROCK
YEAR: 1969
Challenge!
is the debut studio album by Japanese rock band Flower Travellin' Band, then
called Yuya Uchida & The Flowers, released in 1969. It features mainly cover
songs, and was a means for Yuya Uchida to explore the emerging psychedelic rock
movement outside his own career, and to introduce the work of upcoming Western
bands such as Cream, Big Brother and the Holding Company, The Jimi Hendrix
Experience, Jefferson Airplane to a Japanese audience. It was named number 34
on Bounce's 2009 list of 54 Standard Japanese Rock Albums.
Shocked
after seeing Jimi Hendrix perform in London in 1967, Yuya Uchida returned home
and wanted to introduce a similar sound to Japan. He formed "the
Flowers" as a cover band with various group sounds musicians, and two
vocalists; male singer Hiroshi Chiba and female singer Remi Aso. The album also
gained notoriety for featuring all of the band members nude on the cover.
Following
its release, Uchida dropped all the members, except drummer George Wada,
recruited guitarist Hideki Ishima, vocalist Joe Yamanaka and bassist Jun
Kobayashi, and formed the Flower Travellin' Band as a band that would appeal to
international audiences. Uchida
himself reverted exclusively to the producer/manager role. Their
first album, Anywhere, mirrored Challenge! by mainly consisting of
cover songs and nude cover art.
On
September 26, 2007, a limited edition of Challenge! was released with five
bonus tracks. They are "Last Chance", "Flower Boy" and
"Yogiri no Trumpet" which were previously released as singles in
1969, and the previously unreleased covers of "Fire" and "Five
to One".
Every day in the week I'm in a different city
If I stay too long people try to pull me down
They talk about me like a dog
Talkin' about the clothes I wear
But they don't realize they're the ones who's square
Yeah!
And that's why
You can't hold me down
I don't want to be tied down I gotta move
Hey
I said
Stone free do what I please
Stone free to ride the breeze
Stone free, baby I can't stay
I got to got to got to get away
Yeah
Listen here baby
A woman here a woman there try to keep me in a plastic
cage
But they don't realize it's so easy to break
Yeah but a sometimes I get a ha
Feel my heart kind a gettin' hot
That's when I got to move before I get caught
So dig this
And the is why, listen to me baby, you can't hold me
down
I don't want to be tied down
I gotta move on
I said
Stone free do what I please
Stone free to ride the breeze
Stone free I can't stay
Got to got to got to get away
Yeah
Tear me loose baby
Hey
Yeah!
I said
Stone free to ride on the breeze
Stone free do what I please
Stone free I can't stay
Stone free I got to I got to get away
Hey
Stone free go on down the highway
Stone free don't try to hold me back baby
Stone free stone free
Stone free got to baby
Stone free got get on.
KAMIKAZE
FLOWER TRAVELLIN' BAND
SONGWRITERS: HIDEKI ISHIMA
& YOKO NOMURO
COUNTRY: JAPAN
ALBUM: MADE IN JAPAN
LABEL: ATLANTIC
GENRE: PROGRESSIVE ROCK
YEAR:1972
Flower Travellin' Band are an esoteric psychedelic
rock / heavy metal outfit from Tokyo, Japan, first active from 1969 and early
1970s until 1973, consisting of Akira "Joe" Yamanaka (vocals), Hideki
Ishima (guitar), Joji "George" Wada (drums) and Jun Kozuki (bass). As
of January 12th, 2008 they have officially reunited. The band was initially
organized by Japanese entertainer and entrepreneur Yuya Uchida as The Flowers,
a cover band, and featured two vocalists - male vocalist Yuya Uchida, and
female vocalist Remi Aso, who was touted as the Japanese version of Janis
Joplin.
Made In
Japan is the third album by Japanese rock band Flower Travellin' Band, released
in 1972.
After
meeting Lighthouse at the Expo '70 festival in Osaka, Flower Travellin' Band
were invited to visit Canada. While there, the group recorded Made in Japan with
Lighthouse keyboardist Paul Hoffert helping produce. Vocalist Joe Yamanaka later
stated that the process was very easy, with everything flowing well.
Due to
George Wada becoming ill with tuberculosis, Canadian drummer Paul Devon plays
on some tracks on this album. The lyrics were written by Yoko Nomura, the wife of the band's
manager, who translated conversations she had with the group and their ideas
into English. "Heaven and Hell" was written by Yamanaka in
Japanese and she translated it. The song "Hiroshima" is a
re-imagining of "Satori Part III" from their previous album Satori. The
introductory first track is an advertisement for a concert at Stanley Park
Stadium by Flower Travellin' Band, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Bob Seger and Teegarden
& Van Winkle, with a clip of "Lucky Man" playing in the
background.
"Hiroshima",
"Heaven and Hell" and "Aw Give Me Air" were covered by Cult
of Personality, 9, and punk band Pulling Teeth respectively, for the 2000 Flower
Travellin' Band Tribute album.
Both
Mason Jones of Dusted magazine and Eduardo Rivadavia of Allmusic claimed that
following Satori was a difficult task and that Made in Japan was "doomed
to fall short of expectations," respectively. Both reviewers also cited
the same three songs, "Kamikaze", "Hiroshima" and
"Spasms", as the highlights and being on par with the band's best
work. Although he felt it inconsistent, Rivadavia called the album "pretty
darn good!" and gave it a 3.5 star rating out of 5.
The
princess in her flower bed
Pulled the jungle underground
Where cherry bombs stained the blackbirds red
And explosions never make a sound
Oh comet, come down
Kamikaze over me
And I come alive
My midnight melody
Oh comet, come down
My captain on a snowy horse
Is coming back to take me home
He's coming back to take me home
I'm finally fighting back a terrible force
'Cause I'm not afraid to die alone
Oh comet, come down
Kamikaze over me
And I come alive
My midnight melody
Oh comet, come down
Break down the open road
Maybe I’ll ride
And fight back the over tow
To save my life
Bring in the amber glow
Maybe I’ll fly
And go where you wanna go
With your eagle eye
Break down the open road
Maybe I’ll ride
And go where you wanna go
With your eagle eye
Break down the open road
Maybe I'll ride
And fight back the overthrow
To save my life
Bring in the amber glow
Maybe I'll fly
And go where you wanna go
With your eagle eye
Eagle eye, eagle eye
Eagle eye, eagle eye
Eagle eye, eagle eye
Eagle eye, eagle eye
Eagle eye, eagle eye
Eagle eye, eagle eye.
HUNGRY EYES
ERIC CARMEN
SONGWRITER: JOHN DENICOLA
& DEAN PITCHFORD
COUNTRY: U.S.A.
ALBUM: DEFINITIVE COLLECTION
LABEL: ARTISTA RECORDS
GENRE: ROCK
YEAR: 1997
The
Definitive Collection is a 1997 greatest hits album of all the singles released
by Cleveland, Ohio singer-songwriter Eric Carmen. It features five hits by the Raspberries,
a power pop group which he led in the early 1970s. It also contains his
versions of two major hits which he wrote for Shaun Cassidy, two popular songs
from the movie Dirty Dancing, and his greatest hit, "All By Myself",
which peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 on March 5, 1976.
Eric
Howard Carmen(born August 11, 1949) is an American singer, songwriter,
guitarist and keyboardist. He scored numerous hit songs across the 1970s and
1980s, first as a member of the Raspberries(who had a million-selling single
with "Go All the Way"), and then with his solo career, including hits
such as "All by Myself", "Never Gonna Fall in Love Again",
"She Did It", "Hungry Eyes", and "Make Me Lose Control".
His first two solo singles were chart hits in 1976. Both
were built around themes by Sergei Rachmaninoff. The first of these singles,
"All by Myself" – based on Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 – hit
number 2 in the United States, and number 12 in the United Kingdom where it was
his only charting hit. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold
disc by the R.I.A.A. in April 1976. The follow-up single, "Never Gonna
Fall in Love Again" – based on the main theme of the slow movement of
Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2 – reached number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100, and
hit number one on the US Adult Contemporary Chart, as well as number nine on
the Cash Box chart. In the UK Dana took it to number 31. Those songs featured
on his 1975 self-titled debut album, along with "That's Rock and Roll",
a number 3 hit single for singer Shaun Cassidy. The album made number 21 on the
Billboard album chart and was certified Gold in 1977 for sales of more than
500,000 copies.
Carmen's
second album, Boats Against the Current, came out in the summer of 1977 and
received mixed reviews. It featured backup players such as Burton Cummings, Andrew
Gold, Bruce Johnston and Nigel Olsson. The album spent 13 weeks in the Billboard Album chart,
peaking number 45. It also produced the Top 20 single "She
Did It," but the title track only managed to scrape the bottom of the
chart. The title track was later covered by Olivia Newton-John on her album Totally
Hot. A third single taken from the album, "Marathon Man," became his
first solo single not to hit the Billboard Hot 100 chart. However, Shaun
Cassidy again made the Top 10 in 1978 with Carmen's "Hey Deanie." For
several weeks in the fall of 1977, Carmen had three compositions charting
concurrently on the Billboard Hot 100, Cassidy's two big hits and Carmen's own
"She Did It".
Carmen followed up with two more albums. Despite
declining chart fortunes, the single "Change of Heart" broke into the
Pop Top 20 and reached number 6 at AC in late 1978, with this hit also being
covered by Samantha Sang on her Emotion LP. But in 1980, after the release of the album "Tonight
You're Mine" and single "It Hurts Too Much" (number 75 Billboard
Top 100; number 3 South Africa, June 1980) he temporarily withdrew from the
music industry.
Four
years later, after Mike Reno and Ann Wilson topped the charts (Pop number 7;
Adult Contemporary number one) with the Carmen-penned ballad "Almost
Paradise" (the love them to the film Footloose), Eric resurfaced on Geffen
Records in 1985 with a second self-titled album and a sizeable comeback hit
"I Wanna Hear It from Your Lips". The single hit the Adult Contemporary Top 10 as well as
the Pop Top 40. The follow-up single, "I'm Through with
Love," also climbed the Billboard Hot 100 and reached the Top 20 of the
Adult Contemporary chart. Another track from the album, "Maybe My
Baby," later became a Country hit for Louise Mandrell. "I Wanna Hear
It from Your Lips" was also a Country hit for Louise Mandrell.
In 1987,
Carmen's contribution to the hit movie Dirty Dancing, "Hungry Eyes",
hit number 2 on the Adult Contemporary Chart and also returned him to the Pop
Top 10. "Reason To Try", a further contribution to the One Moment in
Time compilation album of songs recorded for the Seoul Summer Olympics, kept
Carmen's profile high in 1988, during which the nostalgic "Make Me Lose
Control" also returned him to the number one position on the Adult
Contemporary chart – where it stayed for three straight weeks – as well as
number 3 on Billboard's Hot 100. This became his highest charting song since "All By
Myself". Both, along with "Hungry Eyes", having in the past two
decades become classic pop radio favorites. Although Carmen did not follow his
two hit singles with a new studio album in 1988, "Make Me Lose
Control" was included on a revised 'Best Of' collection from Arista. (The
original version of the album was released a few months before the single was
released, and early pressings exclude the song.)
The year
2000 saw the stateside release of I Was Born to Love You, which had been
released in 1998 only in Japan as Winter Dreams. Carmen eschewed the use of a band
on the recording, playing most of the instruments and programming the drum
parts himself. The album did not find a large audience, but Carmen has
continued to enjoy success placing songs with other artists over the years. In
2000 he also toured for the first time in years with Ringo Starr and His All
Starr Band performing "Hungry Eyes", "Go All The Way" and
"All By Myself".
On
December 24, 2013, the first new recording in over 15 years by Carmen titled
"Brand New Year" was released. The track, written and recorded in
November/December 2013 in Ohio and Los Angeles, was issued via a gratis
download by Legacy Recordings as a special "Christmas gift", to
herald the March 2014 arrival of a 30 track career retrospective entitled The
Essential Eric Carmen.
On June
25, 2019, The New York Times Magazine listed Eric Carmen among hundreds of
artists whose material was reportedly destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire.
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