COMPOSITORES:
MARCOS VASCONCELLOS & PINGARILHO(CARLOS ALBERTO VALLE PINGARILHO)
PAÍS:
BRASIL
ÁLBUM: O
MELHOR DE OS CARIOCAS
GRAVADORA:
BLACK ROUND RECORDS
GÊNERO:
BOSSA NOVA
ANO: 1989
OS
CARIOCAS SÃO UMA BANDA DE MÚSICA POPULAR. A BANDA FOI FUNDADA EM 1942 POR ISMAEL
NETO, E CONTINUA ATÉ OS DIAS DE HOJE COM NOVOS MEMBROS.
Ela agora
Mora só no pensamento
Ou então no
firmamento
Em tudo o que no céu
viaja
Pode ser um
astronauta
Ou ainda um
Passarinho
Ou virou um
pé-de-vento
Pipa de papel de seda
Ou quem sabe um
balãozinho
Pode estar num asteroide
Pode ser a
estrela-D'alva
Que daqui se olha
Pode estar morando em
Marte
Nunca mais se soube
dela
Desapareceu.
TAPESTRY
CAROLE
KING
SONGWRITER: CAROLE KING
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: TAPESTRY
LABEL: A & M
GENRE: POP
YEAR: 1971
Carole King Klein (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 Buildingand 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 1962 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 Awardsand was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fameand the Rock and Roll Hall of Famefor her
songwriting. She is the recipient of the 2013 Library
of CongressGershwin
Prizefor Popular Song, the first woman to
be so honored. She is also a 2015 Kennedy
Center Honoree.
Tapestry is the second studio album by
American singer-songwriter Carole
King, released in 1971 on Ode Recordsand produced by Lou Adler.
It is one of the
best-selling albums of all time, with over 25 million copies sold worldwide. In
the United States, it has been certified Diamond by the RIAAwith
more than 10 million copies sold. It received four Grammy Awardsin 1972, including Album of the Year. The lead singles from
the album—"It's Too Late"/"I
Feel the Earth Move"—spent five weeks at number
one on both the Billboard Hot 100and Easy Listeningcharts. In 2000
it was voted number 74 in Colin
Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums. In
2020, Tapestry was ranked number 25 on Rolling
Stonelist of the 500 greatest albums of
all time.
My life has been a
tapestry
Of rich and royal hue;
An everlasting vision
Of the ever-changing view;
A wond'rous woven magic
In bits of blue and gold;
A tapestry to feel and see;
Impossible to hold.
Once amid the soft
silver
Sadness in the sky,
There came a man of fortune;
A drifter passing by.
He wore a torn and tattered cloth
Around his leathered hide
And a coat of many colors;
Yellow, green, on either side.
He moved with some
uncertainty
As if he didn't know
Just what he was there for
Or where he ought to go.
Once he reached for something
Golden hanging from a tree
And his hand came down emp-ty.
Soon within my
tapestry,
Along the rutted road,
He sat down on a river rock
And turned into a toad.
It seemed that he had fallen
Into someone's wicked spell
And I wept to see him suffer,
Though I didn't know him well.
As I watched in
sorrow,
There suddenly appeared
A figure gray and ghostly
Beneath a flowing beard.
In times of deepest darkness
I've seen him dressed in black.
Now my tapestry's unraveling;
He's come to take me back.
He's come to take me back.
IF EVER
I SEE YOU AGAIN
ROBERTA
FLACK
SONGWRITER:
JOE BROOKS
COUNTRY:
U. S. A.
ALBUM: ROBERTA
FLACK
LABEL: ATLANTIC
RECORDS
GENRE: SOUL
YEAR: 1978
"If Ever I See You Again" is the
title of a 1978 hit single by Roberta
Flack. The song was composed by Joseph "Joe" Brooksand
served as the title song for the 1978 film If Ever I See You Again, which
Brooks directed and also starred in with Shelley
Hackas his leading lady. Male vocalist Jamie Carr sang the
theme song on the film's soundtrack.
Brooks' directorial debut, You Light Up My Life, had become successful
largely on the strength of its title song, which as recorded by Debby Boonehad spent ten weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100in 1977. With Brooks producing, Debby Boone had subsequently
recorded the If Ever I See You Again title song plus four other songs
heard in the film: "California", "Come Share My Love",
"It Was Such a Good Day" and "When It's Over", at the
Hollywood recording studio the Record Plant in January 1978, with the track
"California" being issued as Boone's follow-up single to "You
Light Up My Life" in February 1978 to reach #50 on the Hot 100. Boone's
version of the If Ever I See You Again title song, plus the four other
songs from the film that she'd recorded, would be included on her July 1978
album release Midstream.
Despite Boone's success with the theme song
from You Light Up My Life, Brooks was hoping to place the If Ever I See
You Again theme song plus other songs from the film with an established
artist. According to his partner Robert K. Lifton, Brooks offered the If Ever I
See You Again numbers to Arista Recordspresident Clive
Davisfor Barry Manilowto record only to renege after hearing the existing tracks intended
for Manilow's upcoming album, which Brooks felt were sub-par and would sink his
own compositions (in fact Manilow's 1978 album release Even Nowwould be a triple platinum
seller).
Brooks then approached Atlantic Recordspresident Jerry
Greenbergwith the intent of having the If
Ever I See You Again theme song and other songs from the film recorded by Roberta Flack(Flack has stated that she had been offered "You Light Up My
Life" prior to the Debby Boone recording: (Roberta Flack:)"Some
people whose opinions I respect very much suggested I should do it...but the
song reminded me of too many other things that I had heard or sung and I just
didn't like it [although] I think [for] Debby Boone ['You Light Up My Life']
was perfect". Flack would eventually describe "If Ever I See You
Again" as "a song I couldn't stand" that Greenberg insisted she
record: (Roberta Flack quote:) "I had a very clever lawyer who
made a huge money deal for [my recording] that song": Flack recorded
"If Ever I See You Again" at A&R Recording Studiosin New York Cityin a session produced by Brooks which also yielded Flack's versions
of "Come Share My Love" and "When It's Over". With a track
from Flack's 1977 Blue Lights in the Basementalbum:
"I'd Like To Be Baby To You", as B-side,
"If Ever I See You Again" was released as a single in 21 April 1978 -
a month before the film's premiere - to debut the Billboard Hot 100dated 20 May 1978 at #87 (the same chart ranked the Blue Lights in
the Basement single: the Donny
Hathawayduet "The
Closer I Get to You" at its #2 peak for a
second and final week).
With the film If Ever I See You Again quickly
proving a massive flop, Flack's single was left to fare on its own merit, and
did in July 1978 spend three weeks at No. 1 on the Easy Listening chartwith an
eventual ranking as the #8 Easy Listening hit for the year: however, while
reaching the Top 40 on both the Pop-oriented Hot 100 and the R&B chart, "If Ever I See You
Again" was not on either chart afforded the impact which had previously
been customary for Flack's lead singles, the Hot 100 peak for "If Ever I
See You Again" being #24 with its R&B peak being #37. On the
pop-oriented singles charts published in both Cashboxand Record World,
"If Ever I See You Again" peaked at #38, with the single's peak on
the respective magazines' R&B charts being #37 (Cashbox) and #58 (Record
World)).
"If Ever I See You Again" was
included on the August 1978 album release Roberta
Flack- the planned album title of If Ever
I See You Again being dropped due to the single's underperformance - , that
album also including the two other tracks cut with Joe Brooks at A&R
Studios: "Come Share My Love" and "When It's Over", the two
latter tracks being issued on a single in October 1978 with the A-side
"When It's Over" reaching #82 on the R&B chart.
From
1979 Flack would tend to rank on the R&B chart as opposed to the Hot 100,
her only solo Hot 100 entry subsequent to "If Ever I See You Again"
being another movie theme song: "Making Love", which peaked at #13 in 1982. However
Flack did reach the Top 20 of the Hot 100 with two duets: "Tonight, I Celebrate My Love"
with Peabo Bryson(#16/ 1983) and "Set
the Night to Music" with Maxi Priest(#6/ 1991).
I've wondered all my
life
How I could ever let you go
There's not a lot of change in my life
But one thing that I know
If ever I see you
again
Maybe this time it well work out alright
Maybe this we won't say goodbye but only goodnight
With a love that won't end
If ever I see you again
Warm sleepy morning
working up next to you
Feeling you close by side
Nothing on earth has ever felt better
Then the feelings I've felt deep inside
Sometimes it seems that I never lost you
And that your not really gone
Cause I had this dream
This wonderful dream
It just goes on and on
And If ever I see you
again
Maybe this time it well work out alright
Maybe this we won't say goodbye but only goodnight
With a love that won't end
If ever I see you again...
MANY
TEARS AGO
CONNIE
FRANCIS
SONGWRITER: WINFIELD SCOTT
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: LOVE ‘N’ COUNTRY
LABEL: MGM
GENRE: POP
YEAR: 1989
Concetta Rosa Maria Franconero (December 12,
1937), better known as Connie Francis, is an American pop singer,
former actress, and
top-charting female vocalist of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Although her chart success waned
in the second half of the 1960s, Francis remained a top concert draw.
Francis was born to na Italian-Americanfamily in the Ironboundneighborhood of Newark,
New Jersey, the first child of George and
Ida (née Ferrari-di Vito) Franconero, spending her first years in the Crown
Heights, Brooklynarea (Utica Avenue/St.
Marks Avenue) before the family moved to New Jersey.
Growing up in an Italian-Jewish neighborhood,
Francis became fluent in Yiddish, which
led her later to record songs in Yiddish and Hebrew.
In
her autobiography Who's Sorry Now? published in 1984, Francis recalls
that she was encouraged by her father to appear regularly at talent contests,
pageants, and other neighborhood festivities from the age of four as a singer
and accordion player.
Francis attended Newark
Arts High Schoolin 1951 and 1952. She and
her family moved to Belleville,
New Jersey, where Francis graduated as salutatorianfrom Belleville High SchoolClass of 1955.
During
this time, Francis continued to perform at neighborhood festivities and talent
shows (some of which were broadcast on television), appearing alternately as
Concetta Franconero and Connie Franconero. Under the
latter name, she also appeared on NBC's
variety show Startime Kids between 1953 and 1955.
During the rehearsals for her appearance on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts, Francis
was advised by Godfrey to change her stage name to Connie Francis for the sake
of easier pronunciation. Godfrey also told her to drop the accordion – advice
she gladly followed, as she had begun to hate the large and heavy instrument. Around
the same time, Francis took a job as a singer on demonstration records,
which brought unreleased songs to the attention of established singers and/or
their management who would subsequently choose or decline to record them for a
professional commercial record.
"Many Tears Ago" is a song written
by Winfield Scottand performed
by Connie Francis.
It reached #7 on the U.S. pop chartand #12 on the UK
Singles Chartin 1960.
The single's B-side,
"Senza Mama (With No One)", reached #87 on the U.S. pop chart.