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ALTEMAR DUTRA

COMPOSITOR: LAMARTINE BABO & FRANCISCO MATTOSO

PAÍS: BRASIL

ÁLBUM: ESPECIAL

GRAVADORA: EMI MUSIC BRASIL

GÊNERO: BOLERO

ANO: 1995

Altemar Dutra de Oliveira (Aimorés, 6 de outubro de 1940 — Nova Iorque, 9 de novembro de 1983) foi um cantor e compositor brasileiro.

Sucesso em toda a América Latina, interpretando obras como "Sentimental Demais", "O Trovador", "Brigas" e "Que Queres Tu de Mim", boa parte das canções de autoria da dupla Evaldo Gouveia e Jair Amorim, foi progressivamente destacando-se no gênero musical bolero. De fato, veio a ser aclamado como o "rei do bolero" no Brasil.

Em 1964, gravou com grande sucesso Que queres tu de mim, O trovador, Sentimental demais e Somos iguais (todas de Evaldo Gouveia e Jair Amorim). Destacou-se também na América Latina, fazendo apresentações em vários países e gravando um LP com Lucho Gatica: El bolero se canta así.

Com suas versões em espanhol, chegou a vender mais de 500 mil cópias na América Latina. Depois de ter dominado as paradas de sucesso locais, a partir de 1969 passou a conquistar fãs de origem latina nos Estados Unidos. Em pouco tempo tornou-se um dos mais populares cantores estrangeiros nos Estados Unidos. Apresentava um show para a comunidade latino-americana, no clube noturno "El Continente", em Nova Iorque, quando faleceu aos 43 anos, de derrame cerebral.

Foi casado com a cantora Marta Mendonça, tendo dois filhos, Deusa Dutra e Altemar Dutra Júnior, este também a seguir carreira artística.

Eu sonhei que tu estavas tão linda
Eu sonhei que tu estavas tão linda

Numa festa de raro esplendor

Teu vestido de baile lembro ainda

Era branco, todo branco, meu amor

A orquestra tocou umas valsas, dolentes

Tomei-te aos braços

Fomos bailando

Ambos silentes

E os pares que rodeavam, entre nós

Diziam coisas, trocavam juras, a meia voz

Violinos enchiam o ar, de emoções

Tive desejo de uma centena de corações

Pra despertar teu ciúme

Tentei flertar alguém

Mas tu não flertaste

Ninguém

Olhavas só para mim

Vitórias de amor, cantei

Mas foi tudo um sonho

Acordei.

MEDITERRÁNEO

JOAN MANUEL SERRAT

COMPOSITOR: JOAN MANUEL SERRAT

PAIS: ESPAÑA

ALBUM: MEDITERRÁNEO

DISCOGRÁFICA:ZAFIRO

GÉNERO: TROVA

AÑO: 1971

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.