RITMO DA CHUVA

FERNANDA TAKAI

COMPOSITORES: John CLAUDE Gummoe

TRADUÇÃO: Demetrius

PAÍS: BRASIL

ÁLBUM: RITMO DA CHUVA(AO VIVO)

GRAVADORA: DECKDISC

GÊNERO: POP

ANO: 2015

"Rhythm of the Rain" é uma música pop gravada pelo grupo The Cascades. Lançada em novembro de 1962, a canção foi escrita por John Claude Gummoe, membro do grupo. Em 9 de março de 1963, a música chegou ao 3º lugar da parada pop americana, e passou duas semanas no 1º lugar da parada daquele país intitulada US Easy Listening. A canção também entrou para o top 5 no Reino Unido e chegou ao 1º lugar na Irlanda. Em 1999, a BMI listou a canção como sendo a nona mais tocada nas rádios e TVs no século 20. A música foi usada no filme Quadrophenia, de 1979, e entrou na trilha sonora do mesmo.

Fernanda Barbosa Takai (Serra do Navio, 25 de agosto de 1971) é uma cantora, compositora e multi-instrumentista brasileira, de ascendência portuguesa e japonesa. Embora ainda vocalista da banda Pato Fu, Fernanda lançou-se em 2007 uma carreira solo com boa repercussão, chegando a gravar um disco em parceria com o ex-guitarrista do The Police, Andy Summers, em 2012. Além de cantar, Fernanda toca guitarra, violão e compõe para o Pato Fu.

Embora nascida no Amapá, Fernanda vive desde os nove anos de idade em Belo Horizonte, onde iniciou sua carreira musical. Os avós paternos da cantora eram japoneses. O seu avô materno era português e a avó alagoana. Desde pequena ouvia música, especialmente rock inglês e pop rock, embora tenha crescido, pela influência da família, com a MPB — um dos motivos de produzir um disco solo em homenagem a Nara Leão. Começou a ler gibis de Maurício de Sousa, depois Monteiro Lobato e Cecília Meireles.

(...)Em 2009, Fernanda gravou o registro ao vivo em DVD da turnê, intitulado de Luz Negra, que ganhou diversos prêmios, incluindo Melhor DVD. Nesse show a cantora foi além do repertório de Nara Leão, interpretando também canções como Ben, de Michael Jackson, Ordinary World, de Duran Duran, e 5 Discos, de autoria da própria cantora. Com o Pato Fu, Fernanda regravou vários clássicos em 2010 tocados com instrumentos de brinquedo para disco Música de Brinquedo, ganhando grande receptividade do público.

Seu segundo livro foi lançado em 2011, chamado ''A Mulher Que Não Queria Acreditar'', reunindo 40 outros contos que foram originalmente publicados na coluna da escritora no Jornal Estado de Minas. Segundo Fernanda, seus textos são produzidos em seu tempo livre de show da carreira solo ou com o Pato Fu. No mesmo ano, foi convidada para gravar duas canções em português da trilha sonora do filme Winnie The Pooh.

Em 2012, é anunciada a parceria de Fernanda com Andy Summers, ex-integrante do The Police. O guitarrista, além de produtor do disco, também compôs letras especialmente para a voz da cantora. O projeto foi lançado no mesmo ano, sendo que o disco bilíngue possui cinco canções em português e seis em inglês. Chegou a fazer uma participação especial em um show da banda Duran Duran, da qual sempre declarou ser muito fã, cantando junto ao vocalista da banda a canção Ordinary World — que também está em seu DVD solo Luz Negra. No dia 30 de junho de 2012, Fernanda participou do programa Som Brasil, onde interpretou canções do Clube da Esquina.

Em 2013, junto com o marido e parceiro de banda, John Ulhoa, compôs 27 canções para a trilha sonora do espetáculo "Aventuras de Alice no País das Maravilhas", um dos três espetáculos que integraram a chamada "Trilogia do Mundo Moderno" do grupo de teatro de bonecos Giramundo. Fernanda, além da trilha sonora, emprestou sua voz à personagem Alice no espetáculo. A trilha deve ser lançada em CD.

Em 2014, após ganhar verba enviando seu projeto para a Natura Musical, Fernanda anuncia seu quarto disco solo, intitulado Na Medida do Impossível. No disco, ela conta com participações de artistas como Pitty(que compôs com a cantora a faixa Seu Tipo) e Samuel Rosa, com quem divide os vocais na canção Para Curar Essa Dor. Além de parcerias, como com o Padre Fábio de Melo, a cantora ainda assina a autoria de algumas das faixas do disco, como "Partida" e "Quase Desatento". No mesmo ano, anunciou que lançaria, também, um disco de inéditas com sua banda, o Pato Fu.

Em 2017, seu álbum Na Medida do Impossível ao Vivo no Inhotim foi indicado ao Grammy Latino de 2017 de Melhor Projeto Gráfico. 

Olho para a chuva

Que não quer cessar

Nela vejo o meu amor

Esta chuva ingrata

Que não vai parar

Pra aliviar a minha dor

Eu sei que o meu amor

Pra muito longe foi

Numa chuva que caiu

Oh, gente

Por favor pra ela vá contar

Meu coração se partiu

Chuva, traga o meu benzinho

Pois preciso de carinho

Diga a ela

Pra não me deixar

Triste assim

O ritmo dos pingos

Ao cair no chão

Só me deixa relembrar

Tomara que eu não fique

A esperar em vão

Por ela que me faz chorar

Oh, chuva traga o meu amor

Chove, chuva, traga o meu amor

Oh, chuva traga o meu amor

Chove, chuva, traga o meu amor.

THIS IS THE DAY

THE THE

SONGWRITER: MATT JOHNSON.

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: SOUL MINING

LABEL: SOME BIZZARE

GENRE: SYNTH-POP

YEAR: 1983

The The (/ðəðə/) are an English post-punk band. They have been active in various forms since 1979, with singer-songwriter Matt Johnson being the only constant band member. The The achieved critical acclaim and commercial success in the UK, with 15 chart singles (seven reaching the Top 40), and their most successful album, Infected (1986), spent 30 weeks on the chart. They followed this with the Top Ten albums Mind Bomb(1989) and Dusk(1993).

For 2017's Record Store Day, after premiering the song on a Radio Cineola broadcast, the The released a new 7" record called "We Can't Stop What's Coming", collaborating once again with Johnny Marr. On 10 September, it was announced that Johnson would be touring as the The again for the first time in 17 years. Two dates were announced, in Denmark on 1 June 2018 and at Royal Albert Hall on 5 June 2018. The Royal Albert Hall tickets sold out, with two extra performances added at O2's Brixton Academy and The Troxy, both in London. Several more shows around the UK and Europe were subsequently added, as well as eight shows in the US. The The also played on 2 & 3 October 2018 in the Sydney Opera House.

The touring announcement came subsequent to the The announcing a new triple-vinyl limited-edition box set, Radio Cineola: Trilogy, to be released when they kick off their first gigs since 2002. Featuring three albums – The End of the Day, The Inertia Variations, and Midnight to Midnight – the triple box set package, available for pre-order from 6 October 2017, also comes with 48-page bound book which includes album lyrics and exclusive photos. The End of the Day contains interpretations of a selection of the The songs from singers across the globe and includes the The's recent single "We Can't Stop What's Coming". The Inertia Variations features Johnson narrating John Tottenham's epic poetic cycle. "Midnight To Midnight includes interviews and soundscapes taken from Johnson's 12-hour UK Election Day Radio Cineola shortwave broadcast plus the electronic score from The Inertia Variations documentary," said a spokesperson for the band, speaking to The Quietus.

Soul Mining is the debut album by British post-punk/synth-pop band the The (the 1981 album Burning Blue Soul was originally released by the band's frontman Matt Johnson as a solo album, but later reissues credited it to the The). After a bidding war between major record labels which resulted in the group signing with CBS Records, Johnson began recording the album in New York City, but the initial recording sessions were aborted after the album's first two singles and Johnson returned to London where he wrote and recorded the rest of the record. Musically, Soul Mining is a post-punk and synth-pop album with influences of the early 1980s New York club scene, while Johnson's lyrics focus on relationship insecurities and social alienation, with imagery derived from dreams.

Soul Mining was released in the United Kingdom on 21 October 1983 on Some Bizzare Records/Epic Records and included versions of the singles "Uncertain Smile", "Perfect", and "This Is the Day". Although the album received positive reviews, its initial sales were modest, reaching number 27 in the UK and charting in a number of other countries, but in 2019 the album was certified gold in the UK. Soul Mining was reissued in June 2014 as a two-disc 30th anniversary deluxe version on vinyl, attracting retrospective reviews which universally praised the record, with critics describing it as both Johnson's best work and one of the best albums of the 1980s.

Well, you didn't wake up this morning 'cause you didn't go to bed

You were watching the whites of your eyes turn red

The calendar on your wall

Is ticking the days off

You've been reading some old letters

You smile and think how much you've changed

All the money in the world

Couldn't buy back those days

You pull back the curtains

And the sun burns into your eyes

You watch a plane flying

Across the clear blue sky

This is the day

Your life will surely change

This is the day

When things fall into place

You could've done anything

If you'd wanted

And all your friends and family

Think that your lucky

But the side of you they'll never see

Is when you're left alone with the memories?

That hold your life

Together like glue

You pull back the curtains

And the sun burns into your eyes

You watch a plane flying

Across the clear blue sky

This is the day

Your life will surely change

This is the day

When things fall into place

This is the day (this is the day)

Your life will surely change

ALLIGATORS ALL AROUND

CAROLE KING

SONGWRITERS: CAROLE KING & MAURICE SENDAK

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: REALLY ROSIE

LABEL: ODE

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 1975

Carole King (born Carol Joan Klein; February 9, 1942) is an American singer-songwriter who has been active since 1958, initially as one of the staff songwriters at the Brill Building and later as a solo artist. She is the most successful female songwriter of the latter half of the 20th century in the US, having written or co-written 118 pop hits on the Billboard Hot 100. King also wrote 61 hits that charted in the UK, making her the most successful female songwriter on the UK singles charts between 1952 and 2005.

King's major success began in the 1960s when she and her first husband, Gerry Goffin, wrote more than two dozen chart hits, many of which have become standards, for numerous artists. She has continued writing for other artists since then. King's success as a performer in her own right did not come until the 1970s, when she sang her own songs, accompanying herself on the piano, in a series of albums and concerts. After experiencing commercial disappointment with her debut álbum Writer, King scored her breakthrough with the album Tapestry, which topped the U.S. album chart for 15 weeks in 1971 and remained on the charts for more than six years.

King has made 25 solo albums, the most successful being Tapestry, which held the record for most weeks at No. 1 by a female artist for more than 20 years. Her record sales were estimated at more than 75 million copies worldwide. She has won four Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for her songwriting. She is the recipient of the 2013 Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, the first woman to be so honored. She is also a 2015 Kennedy Center Honoree.

Really Rosie is a musical with a book and lyrics by Maurice Sendak and music by Carole King. The musical is based on Sendak's books Chicken Soup with Rice, Pierre, One was Johnny, Alligators All Around (which comprise 1962's The Nutshell Library), and The Sign on Rosie's Door (1960). Sendak based the story on a demonstrative little girl who used to sing and dance on the stoop of her building, whom he observed while he was a little boy growing up in Brooklyn. The show follows a typical summer day in the life of the Nutshell Kids, a group of several neighborhood friends, including Pierre, Alligator, Johnny, and Chicken Soup from the Nutshell Library books, and Rosie and Kathy from The Sign on Rosie's Door. Rosie, the self-proclaimed sassiest kid on her block of Brooklyn's Avenue P, entertains everyone by directing and starring in a movie based on the exciting, dramatic, funny (and slightly exaggerated) story of her life.

A half-hour animated television special aired on CBS TV on February 19, 1975. It was directed by Maurice Sendak, animated by Ronald Fritz and Dan Hunn of D&R Productions Inc., with Carole King voicing the title character. King was ultimately selected as the voice of Rosie when casting directors had difficulty selecting a child actor whose voice could complement the pre-recorded songs. An album of the songs by King and lyrics by Sendak is available on Ode/Epic/SME Records. In the animated special, only the first seven songs and Really Rosie (Reprise) were showcased.

Sendak expanded the piece for London and Washington, DC, stage productions in 1978, and na off-Broadway production, directed and choreographed by Patricia Birch with designs by Sendak, which opened on October 14, 1980, at the Westside Theatre, where it ran for 274 performances. During its off-Broadway run, the lead role of Rosie was first played by a then-12-year-old Tisha Campbell-Martin. Midway through the run, Tisha left the cast and was replaced by cast member and "Rosie" understudy Angela Coin, age 10. Angela also sang the role of "Rosie" on the cast recording.

The musical has become a mainstay of children's theater groups. It was also one of John Mulaney's main inspirations for his Netflix Special John Mulaney and the Sack Lunch Bunch.

A - alligators all around

B - bursting balloons

C - catching colds

D - doing dishes

E - entertaining elephants

F - forever fooling

G - getting giggles

H - having headaches

I - imitating Indians

J - juggling jellybeans

K - keeping kangaroos

L - looking like lions

M - making macaroni

N - never napping

O - ordering oatmeal

P - pushing people

Q - quite quarrelsome

R - riding reindeer

S - shockingly spoiled

T - throwing tantrums

U - usually upside down

V - very vain

W - wearing wigs

X - x-ing x's

Y - yackety-yacking

Z - zippity zound

A - alligators ALL around!

ONE MORE TRY

GEORGE MICHAEL

SONGWRITER: GEORGE MICHAEL

COUNTRY: U.K.

ALBUM: FAITH

LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS

GENRE: SOFT ROCK

YEAR: 1987

George Michael(born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou; 25 June 1963 – 25 December 2016) was an English singer, songwriter, record producer, and philanthropist who rose to fame as a member of the music duo Wham! and later embarked on a solo career. Michael sold over 80 million records worldwide making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. He achieved seven number one songs on the UK Singles Chart and eight number one songs on the US Billboard Hot 100. He was widely known for his success in the 1980s and 1990s, including Wham! singles such as "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" and "Last Christmas" and solo singles such as "Careless Whisper" and "Faith".

Michael formed the duo Wham! With Andrew Ridgeley in 1981. The band's first two albums, Fantastic(1983) and Make It Big(1984), reached number one on the UK Albums Chart and the US Billboard 200. Michael's first solo single "Careless Whisper" reached number one in over 20 countries, including the UK and US. Michael's debut solo album, Faith, was released in 1987, topping the UK Albums Chart and staying at number one on the Billboard 200 for 12 weeks. Four singles from the album--"Faith", "Father Figure", "One More Try", and "Monkey"—reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Faith was named Album of the Year at the 31st Grammy Awards. Three years after the release of Faith, Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1(1990) was released; that album included the Billboard Hot 100 number one "Praying for Time". "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me", a 1991 duet with Elton John, was also a transatlantic number one.

Michael, Who came out as gay in 1998, was an active LGBT rights campaigner and HIV/AIDS charity fundraiser. Michael's personal life and legal troubles made headlines during the late 1990s and 2000s, as he was arrested for public lewdness in 1998 and was arrested for multiple drug-related offenses after that time. The 2005 documentary A Different Story covered his career and personal life. Michael's first tour since 1991, the 25 Live tour, spanned three tours over the course of three years; 2006, 2007, and 2008. Four years later, he performed his final concert at London's Earls Court in 2012. In the early hours of 25 December 2016, Michael was found dead at his home in Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire aged 53. A coroner's report attributed his death to natural causes.

Michael won various music awards including two Grammy Awards, three Brit Awards, three American Music Awards, four MTV Video Music Awards and six Ivor Novello Awards. In 2004, the Radio Academy named Michael the most played artist on British radio during the period 1984–2004. In 2008, he was ranked 40th on Billboard's list of the Greatest Hot 100 Artists of All Time.

"One More Try" is a song recorded by the British Singer George Michael from his debut solo studio album, Faith(1987). It was released on 11 April 1988 as the album's fourth single by Columbia Records. The song hit number one on both the Billboard Hot 100 and the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.

The song was the fourth of seven singles to be released from Michael's debut solo álbum Faith. A ballad at almost six minutes in length, the song lyrically explores a young man's hesitancy to enter/revisit a new relationship because he had been emotionally hurt so many times previously. The song concludes with temptation taking over, and Michael ends by singing the title for the only time.

"One More Try" remained a live favourite at Michael's concerts in the years which followed, although its radio airplay tends to be restricted to specific "Love Songs"–esque features because of both the tempo and the length.

I've had enough of danger

And people on the streets

I'm looking out for angels

Just trying to find some peace

Now I think it's time

That you let me know

So if you love me

Say you love me

But if you don't

Just let me go

Cause teacher

There are things that I don't want to learn

And the last one I had

Made me cry

So I don't want to learn to

Hold you, touch you

Think that you're mine

Because there ain't no joy

For an uptown boy

Whose teacher has told him goodbye

Goodbye

Goodbye

When you were just a stranger

And I was at your feet

I didn't feel the danger

Now I feel the heat

That look in your eyes

Telling me no

So you think that you love me

Know that you need me

I wrote the song, I know it's wrong

Just let me go

And teacher

There are things

That I don't want to learn

Oh the last one I had

Made me cry

So I don't want to learn to

Hold you, touch you

Think that you're mine

Because there ain't no joy

For an uptown boy

Whose teacher has told him goodbye

Goodbye

Goodbye

So when you say that you need me

That you'll never leave me

I know you're wrong, you're not that strong

Let me go

And teacher

There are things

That I still have to learn

But the one thing I have is my pride

Oh so I don't want to learn to

Hold you, touch you

Think that you're mine

Because there ain't no joy

For an uptown boy

Who just isn't willing to try

I'm so cold

Inside

Maybe just one more try.