THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY

ENNIO MORRICONE

SONGWRITER: ENNIO MORRICONE

COUNTRY: ITALIA

ALBUM: THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY

LABEL: SOUNDTRACK

GENRE: SOUNDTRACK

YEAR: 1966

 

              The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Italian: Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo, lit. '"The good, the ugly, the bad"') is a 1966 Italian epic Spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood as "the Good", Lee Van Cleef as "the Bad", and Eli Wallach as "the Ugly". Its screenplay was written by Age & Scarpelli, Luciano Vincenzoni and Leone (with additional screenplay material and dialogue provided by an uncredited Sergio Donati), based on a story by Vincenzoni and Leone. Director of photography Tonino Delli Colli was responsible for the film's sweeping widescreen cinematography, and Ennio Morricone composed the film's score including its main theme. It is an Italian-led production with co-producers in Spain, West Germany and the United States.

              The film is known for Leone's use of long shots and close-up cinematography, as well as his distinctive use of violence, tension, and stylistic gunfights. The plot revolves around three gunslingers competing to find fortune in a buried cache of Confederate gold amid the violent chaos of the American Civil War (specifically the New Mexico Campaign in 1862), while participating in many battles and duels along the way. The film was the third collaboration between Leone and Clint Eastwood, and the second with Lee Van Cleef.

              The Good, the Bad and the Ugly was marketed as the third and final installment in the Dollars Trilogy, following A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More. The film was a financial success, grossing over $25 million at the box office, and is credited with having catapulted Eastwood into stardom. Due to general disapproval of the Spaghetti Western genre at the time, critical reception of the film following its release was mixed, but it gained critical acclaim in later years.

Go go go migo

Go go go migo

Go go migo

Go go go

 

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Go go go go go...

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Go migo

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Go migo

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Migo go go...

THE EXODUS SONG (THIS LAND IS MINE)

ANDY WILLIAMS

SONGWRITERS: PAT BOONE & ERNEST GOLD

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: MOON RIVER AND OTHER GREAT MOVIE THEMES

LABEL: POLYDOR

GENRE: SOUNDTRACK

YEAR: 1962

 

                  Howard Andrew Williams (December 3, 1927 – September 25, 2012) was an American singer. He recorded 43 albums in his career, of which 15 have been gold-certified and 3 platinum-certified. He was also nominated for six Grammy Awards. He hosted The Andy Williams Show, a television variety show, from 1962 to 1971, and numerous TV specials. The Andy Williams Show won three Emmy awards. The Moon River Theatre in Branson, Missouri, is named after the song for which he is best known—Johnny Mercer and Henry Mancini's "Moon River". He sold more than 100 million records worldwide, including more than 10 million certified units in the United States.

                 Williams was active in the music industry for over 70 years until his death in 2012.

This land is mine, God gave this land to me

This brave and ancient land to me

And when the morning sun reveals her hills and plain

Then I see a land where children can run free

 

So take my hand and walk this land with me

And walk this lovely land with me

Though I am just a man, when you are by my side

With the help of God, I know I can be strong

 

Though I am just a man, when you are by my side

With the help of God, I know I can be strong

 

To make this land our home

If I must fight, I'll fight to make this land our own

Until I die, this land is mine. 

POLKA DOTS AND MOONBEAMS

BILL EVANS

SONGWRITER: BURKE VAN HEUESEN

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: MOON BEAMS MIX

LABEL: RIVERSIDE RECORDS

GENRE: JAZZ

YEAR: 1962

 

         William John Evans (August 16, 1929 – September 15, 1980) was an American jazz pianist and composer who mostly played in trios. His use of impressionist harmony, inventive interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, block chors, and trademark rhythmically independent, "singing" melodic lines continues to influence jazz pianists today.

               Born in Plainfield, New Jersey, in 1929, he was classically trained at Southeastern Louisiana University and the Mannes School of Music, where he majored in composition and received the Artist Diploma. In 1955, he moved to New York City, where he worked with bandleader and theorist George Russell. In 1958, Evans joined Miles Davis's sextet, which in 1959, then immersed in modal jazz, recorded Kind of Blue, the best-selling jazz album of all time. During that time, Evans was also playing with Chet Baker for the album Chet.

            In late 1959, Evans left the Miles Davis band and began his career as a leader, with bassist Scott LaFaro and drummer Paul Motian, a group now regarded as a seminal modern jazz trio. In 1961, ten days after finishing an engagement at the New York Village Vanguard jazz club, LaFaro died in a car accident. After months of seclusion, Evans reemerged with a new trio, featuring bassist Chuck Israels.

          In 1963, Evans recorded Conversations with Myself, a solo album using the unconventional technique of overdubbing himself. In 1966, he met bassist Eddie Gómez, with whom he worked for 11 years.

             Many of Evans's compositions, such as "Waltz for Debby", have become standards, played and recorded by many artists. Evans received 31 Grammy nominations and seven awards, and was inducted into the Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame.

              "Polka Dots and Moonbeams" is a popular song with music by Jimmy Van Heusen and lyrics by Johnny Burke, published in 1940. It was Frank Sinatra's first hit recorded with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra. The song is one of the top 100 most-frequently recorded jazz standards with arrangements by Gil Evans and others and notable recordings by Bill Evans, Blue Mitchell, Wes Montgomery, Sarah Vaughan (for the 1954 album Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown, and the 1957 album Swingin' Easy), Bud Powell, Lester Young, Gerry Mulligan, Lou Donaldson, Dexter Gordon and many others American songwriter and guitarist John Denver also covered the song on his 1976 Spirit album. Bob Dylan covered this song in his 2016 album Fallen Angels.

          The song has a notable lyric: the man discovers love at a country dance by accidentally bumping into a woman who has a pug nose. The others at the dance are looking strange at this, since her nose makes her someone they wouldn't think romantically about. But he has the last laugh: she becomes the love of his life, and he settles down with her.

           During the song's first year, a fashion designer even created a "Polka Dots and Moonbeams" fabric print as part of a series of prints inspired by popular music.

          Wes Montgomery's version would later be sampled in Doja Cat's 2018 single, Mooo!

 

MÃE CARINHOSA

CESARIA EVORA

COMPOSITOR: TEÓFILO CHANTRE

PAÍS: CABO VERDE

ÁLBUM: MÃE CARINHOSA

GRAVADORA: LUSAFRICA

GÊNERO: MORNA

ANO: 2011

                  

              Um pouco mais de um ano após a morte da "Diva dos pés descalços" a 17 de Dezembro de 2011 foi lançado esta segunda-feira no mundo inteiro "Mãe carinhosa", o álbum póstumo da cantora Cabo Verdiana Cesária Évora, um novo disco composto por 13 canções gravadas entre 1997 e 2006.                                         Cesária Évora (Mindelo, 27 de agosto de 1941 – Mindelo, 17 de dezembro de 2011) foi a cantora de maior reconhecimento internacional de toda a história da música popular cabo-verdiana. Apesar de ser sucedida em diversos outros géneros musicais, Cesária Évora foi maioritariamente relacionada com a morna, por isso também apelidada de "rainha da morna". Era conhecida como a diva dos pés descalços. O filme Tchindas presta tributo a sua música.

          Em 2004 conquistou um prémio Grammy de melhor álbum de world music contemporânea. O presidente francês, Nicolas Sarkozy, distinguiu-a, em 2009, com a medalha da Legião de Honra entregue pela ministra da Cultura francesa Christine Albanel.

              Em setembro de 2011, depois de cancelar um conjunto de concertos por se encontrar muito debilitada, a editora, Lusafrica, anunciou que a cantora pôs um ponto final na longa carreira.

Apesar dess'sol cascode

Dess'vente constante

Dess'tchon maguode

Bô é mãe carinhosa

Mãe carinhosa

Bô é mãe carinhosa

Mãe carinhosa

 

Bô seio ta da um leite

Qu'é tão doce e mornim

Nô ta sinti bô ternura

Na nos pele morena

Nô ta sinti bô ternura

Na nos pele morena

 

É por isso qu'ess'nosso amor

É assim tão grande

Qu'mesmo na distância

Nô ca ta esquece

Mãe carinhosa

Bô é mãe carinhosa

Mãe carinhosa

Bô é mãe carinhosa

 

Ô terra-mãe nha emoção

É dum fidjo prodigo

Qui ja volta chei d'ansiedade

Pa bô acalente

 

Ô terra-mãe nha emoção

É dum fidjo prodigo

Qui ja volta chei d'ansiedade

Pa bô ternura

 

Mãe carinhosa

Bô é mãe carinhosa

Mãe carinhosa

Bô é mãe carinhosa.