PRINCESS OF CHINA

COLDPLAY (FEAT. RHIANNA)

SONGWRITERS: BRIAN ENO; CHRIS MARTIN; GUY BERRYMAN; JONNY BURCLAND & MARCUS DRAVS

COUNTRY: U. K. & BARBADOS

ALBUM: MYLO XYLOTO

LABEL: PARLOPHONE

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 2011

 

           "Princess of China" is a duet recorded by British rock band Coldplay and Barbadian singer Rihanna for Coldplay's fifth studio album Mylo Xyloto. The song was written by band members Guy Berryman, Jonny Buckland, Will Champion, and Chris Martin, along with Brian Eno, and is influenced by the music genres of electronic rock, electropop and R&B. The song was released as the fourth single from Mylo Xyloto and was sent to US Mainstream radio on 14 February 2012. It was later released as a digital download on 13 April 2012. A companion EP to the single, featuring an acoustic version of the song, was released on 1 June 2012.

            "Princess of China" was met with a generally mixed response from music critics, with some praising the collaboration between Martin and Rihanna, though others criticized it for being generic and uninspiring. The song performed well on international charts around the world. The song peaked at number 20 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number four on the UK Singles Chart. It has also reached the top ten of the Australian and New Zealand charts and five other international charts.

              The song's accompanying music video, directed by Adria Petty and Alan Bibby, was filmed in March 2012 in Los Angeles and released on 2 June 2012. The video depicts a complicated love story of Rihanna and Chris Martin, scenes of which include a sword fight and Rihanna imitating a multi-armed goddess. The video was met with positive reviews, with critics praising the Asian theme of the video. The song was performed live on the 54th Grammy Awards held at Staples Center in Los Angeles.

Once upon a time, somebody ran

Somebody ran away saying fast as I can

I got to go, I got to go

Once upon a time, we fell apart

You're holding in your hands the two halves of my heart

 

Oh, whoa, oh, whoa

Oh, whoa, oh, whoa

 

Once upon a time, we burn bright

Now all we ever seem to do is fight, on and on

And on and on and on

Once upon a time, on the same side

Once upon a time, on the same side

In the same game

 

Now why'd you have to go?

Have to go and throw water on my flame?

 

I could've been the princess, you'd be a king

Could have had a castle, wore a ring

But no, you let me go

I could've been the princess, you'd be a king

Could have had a castle, wore a ring

But no, you let me go

 

You stole my star

La la la la la la la

La la la la la la la

 

You stole my star

La la la la la la

Oh, whoa

 

'Cause you really hurt me

No, you really hurt me

'Cause you really hurt me

No, you really hurt me

 

'Cause you really hurt me, oh

You really hurt me, oh

'Cause you really hurt me, oh

You really hurt me.

KILLING ME SOFTLY

MANHATTAN JAZZ QUARTET: (FEAT DEBBY DAVIS)

SONGWRITERS: CHARLES FOX & NORMAN GIMBEL

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: NEW YORK LOUNGE JAZZ(VOCAL CLASSICS)

LABEL: ZIP MUSIC

GENRE: EASY LISTENING/JAZZ

YEAR: 2010

 

          The Manhattan Jazz Quintet is a jazz ensemble consisting of David Matthews on piano, Lew Soloff on trumpet, Victor Lewis on drums, Andy Snitzer on saxophone, and Charnett Moffett on bass. Previously, the band featured George Young on tenor sax, Eddie Gómez on bass, and Steve Gadd on drums.                                                                                           

          The group was formed in 1983 at the suggestion of Japanese jazz magazine Swing Journal and the King record label and won the Gold Disk Award of Swing in 1984.        

           Gadd left in 1987, with Dave Weckl serving as a replacement in 1988 and 1989, but came back for a reunion in 1990, with John Scofield as guest artist on a number of selections. These later recordings were recorded for the Sweet Basil label.

    Gomez left the band after the recording of Manteca in 1992 and was replaced by Charnett Moffett. Gadd left the band, with Victor Lewis becoming his permanent replacement in 1993; Young left in 2000 and was replaced by Andy Snitzer.

       Due to the group's extremely limited distribution in other countries (albums are only available as imports from Japan), it is not well known outside Japan.

Strumming my pain with his fingers

Singing my life with his words

Killing me softly with his song

Killing me softly with his song

Telling my whole life with his words

Killing me softly with his song

 

I heard he sang a good song

I heard he had a style

And so I came to see him

To listen for a while

And there he was, this young boy

A stranger to my eyes

 

Strumming my pain with his fingers

Singing my life with his words

Killing me softly with his song

Killing me softly with his song

Telling my whole life with his words

Killing me softly with his song

 

I felt all flushed with fever

Embarrassed by the crowd

I felt he found my letters

And read each one out loud

I prayed that he would finish

But he just kept right on

 

Strumming my pain with his fingers

Singing my life with his words

Killing me softly with his song

Killing me softly with his song

Telling my whole life with his words

Killing me softly with his song

 

He sang as if he knew me

In all my dark despair

And then he looked right through me

As if I wasn't there

And he just kept on singing

Singing clear and strong

 

Strumming my pain with his fingers

Singing my life with his words

Killing me softly with his song

Killing me softly with his song

Telling my whole life with his words

Killing me softly with his song

 

Strumming my pain with his fingers

Singing my life with his words

Killing me softly with his song

Killing me softly with his song

Telling my whole life with his words

Killing me softly with his song.

TOO MARVELOUS FOR WORDS

JO STAFFORD

SONGWRITERS: JOHNNY MERCER & RICHARD A. WHITTING

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ÁLBUM: YES INDEED

LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS

GENRE: POP MUSIC

YEAR: 1947

 

          Jo Elizabeth Stafford (November 12, 1917 – July 16, 2008) was an American singer of traditional pop music and occasional actress, whose career spanned four decades from the late 1930s to the early 1960s. She was admired by both critics and the listening public for the purity of her voice and was considered one of the most versatile vocalists of the era. Her 1952 song "You Belong to Me" topped the charts in the United States and United Kingdom, and made her the first woman to have a Nº 1 on the UK Singles Chart. She is also the winner of a 1961 Grammy Award for an album of comedic interpretations of popular songs produced with her husband, Paul Weston.

          Jo Elizabeth Stafford (November 12, 1917 – July 16, 2008) was an American traditional pop music singer and occasional actress, whose career spanned five decades from the late 1930s to the early 1980s. Admired for the purity of her voice, she originally underwent classical training to become na opera singer before following a career in popular music, and by 1955 had achieved more worldwide record sales than any other female artist. Her 1952 song "You Belong to Me" topped the charts in the United States and United Kingdom, becoming the second single to top the UK Singles Chart and the first by a female artist to do so.

            Born in remote oil rich Coalinga, California, near Bakersfield in the San Joaquin Valley, Stafford made her first musical appearance at age 12. While still at high school, she joined her two older sisters to form a vocal trio named the Stafford Sisters, who found moderate success on radio and in film. In 1938, while the sisters were part of the cast of Twentieth Century Fox's production of Alexander's Ragtime Band, Stafford met the future members of the Pied Pipers and became the group's lead singer. Bandleader Tommy Dorsey hired them in 1939 to perform back-up vocals for his orchestra.

         In addition to her recordings with the Pied Pipers, Stafford featured in solo performances for Dorsey. After leaving the group in 1944, she recorded a series of pop standards for Capitol Records and Columbia Records. Many of her recordings were backed by the orchestra of Paul Weston. She also performed duets with Gordon MacRae and Frankie Laine. Her work with the United Service Organizations giving concerts for soldiers during World War II earned her the nickname "G.I. Jo". Starting in 1945, Stafford was a regular host of the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) radio series The Chesterfield Supper Club and later appeared in television specials—including two series called The Jo Stafford Show, in 1954 in the U.S. and in 1961 in the U.K.

         Stafford married twice, first in 1937 to musician John Huddleston (the couple divorced in 1943), then in 1952 to Paul Weston, with whom she had two children. Weston and she developed a comedy routine in which they assumed the identity of an incompetent lounge act named Jonathan and Darlene Edwards, parodying well-known songs. The act proved popular at parties and among the wider public when the couple released an album as the Edwardses in 1957. In 1961, the álbum Jonathan and Darlene Edwards in Paris won Stafford her only Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album, and was the first commercially successful parody album. Stafford largely retired as a performer in the mid-1960s, but continued in the music business. She had a brief resurgence in popularity in the late 1970s when she recorded a cover of the Bee Gees hit, "Stayin' Alive" as Darlene Edwards. In the 1990s, she began re-releasing some of her material through Corinthian Records, a label founded by Weston. She died in 2008 in Century City, Los Angeles, and is interred with Weston at Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City. Her work in radio, television, and music is recognized by three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

You're just too marvelous, too marvelous for words

Like glorious, glamorous and that old standby amorous

It's all too wonderful, I'll never find the words

That say enough, tell enough, I mean they just aren't swell enough

 

You're much too much and just too very, very

To ever be in Webster's Dictionary

And so I'm borrowing a love song from the birds

To tell you that you're marvelous, too marvelous for words

 

You're much, you're too much and just too very, very

To ever be, to ever be in Webster's Dictionary

And so I'm borrowing a love song from the birds

To tell you that you're marvelous, tell you that you're marvelous

Tell you that you're marvelous, too marvelous for words.

CUSTE O QUE CUSTAR

ROSANA FIENGO

COMPOSITORES: MICHAEL SULLIVAN & PAULO MASSADAS

PAÍS: BRASIL

ÁLBUM: MOMENTOS

GRAVADORA: CBS

GÊNERO: TROVA

ANO: 1988

 

             Rosana Fiengo (São Paulo, 7 de março de 1954) de 1954), popularmente conhecida por Rosana e, posteriormente, como Rosanah Fienngo, é uma cantora brasileira. Seu grande sucesso foi a canção "O Amor e o Poder", que fez parte da trilha da telenovela Mandala(1987).

               Em 1981, classificou-se no Festival MPB Shell da Rede Globo com a canção "Pensei Que Fosse Fácil, mas não É", de Zé Rodrix. Em 1985, participou de outro festival da Rede Globo, o Festival dos Festivais, e interpretou numa das eliminatórias a canção "Vidraça".

         Em 1986, após gravar alguns discos e participar de outros, uma fita com uma gravação daquele que é considerado pela cantora o seu primeiro sucesso da carreira - "Nem um toque", foi levada à Rede Globo e acabou inserida na trilha sonora da telenovela Roda de Fogo (1986). Com essa exposição, a música foi exaustivamente executada nas rádios. Rosana então assinou contrato com a CBS/Sony Music (atual Sony BMG) neste mesmo ano, permanecendo neste selo.

       Rosana tem como madrinha de carreira a cantora Leny Andrade e é reconhecida como uma das GraNDes cantoras brasileiras

              No atual Prêmio de Música Brasileira (antigo Prêmio TIM/SHARP) organizado por José Maurício Machline, Rosana é uma das recordistas com 9 (nove) indicações, sendo a última em 2004 pelo álbum Rosana (Movieplay, 2003), e vencedora de 5 (cinco) prêmios de Melhor Cantora Popular em 1987, 1989, 1990, 1992 e 1994.

              Atualmente, vive no Rio de Janeiro e continua fazendo espetáculos pelo Brasil e exterior, cantando e tocando piano e violão.

Guarde um pedacinho de você

Pra lembrar de mim a vida inteira

Pede ao coração não esquecer

Nossas emoções e brincadeiras

 

Sempre que você quiser estou contigo

Pra você desabafar, um ombro amigo

Num cantinho, num amor, numa cabana

É possível acreditar quando se ama

 

Por isso tudo pode acontecer

(Acontecer)

Faço parte de você

Quando o coração decide não tem jeito

 

Sonho que sonhei pra mim

(Sonhei pra mim)

Fogo de um amor sem fim

Nada poderá mudar o que está feito

 

Custe o que custar

Nem que leve a vida inteira

Eu quero ter você

Custe o que custar

Só quem ama não se cansa de esperar

Como eu te amo, te amo

 

Por isso tudo pode acontecer

(Acontecer)

Faço parte de você

Quando o coração decide não tem jeito

 

Sonho que sonhei pra mim

(Sonhei pra mim)

Fogo de um amor sem fim

Nada poderá mudar o que está feito

 

Custe o que custar

Nem que leve a vida inteira

Eu quero ter você

Custe o que custar

Só quem ama não se cansa de esperar

 

Custe o que custar

Nem que leve a vida inteira

Eu quero-te você

Custe o que custar

Só quem ama não se cansa de esperar

Como eu te amo, te amo, te amo.