THEM THERE EYES

BILLIE HOLIDAY
SONGWRITERS: DORIS TAUBER; MACEO PINKARD & WILLIAM TRACEY
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: THE UNFORGETTABLE
LABEL: VOCATION RECORDS
GENRE: JAZZ
YEAR: 1939
 
           Eleanora Fagan (April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959), known professionally as Billie Holiday, was an American jazz and swing music singer with a career spanning 26 years. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and music partner Lester Young, Holiday had an innovative influence on jazz music and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo. She was known for her vocal delivery and improvisational skills.
          After a turbulent childhood, Holiday began singing in nightclubs in Harlem, where she was heard by producer John Hammond, who commended her voice. She signed a recording contract with Brunswick in 1935. Collaborations with Teddy Wilson yielded the hit "What a Little Moonlight Can Do", which became a jazz standard. Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, Holiday had mainstream success on labels such as Columbia and Decca. By the late 1940s, however, she was beset with legal troubles and drug abuse. After a short prison sentence, she performed at a sold-out concert at Carnegie Hall, but her reputation deteriorated because of her drug and alcohol problems.
        She was a successful concert performer throughout the 1950s with two further sold-out shows at Carnegie Hall. Because of personal struggles and an altered voice, her final recordings were met with mixed reaction but were mild commercial successes. Her final album, Lady in Satin, was released in 1958. Holiday died of cirrhosis on July 17, 1959. She won four Grammy Awards, all of them posthumously, for Best Historical Album. She was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1973. Lady Sings the Blues, a film about her life, starring Diana Ross, was released in 1972. She is the primary character in the play (later made into a film) Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill; the role was originated by Reenie Upchurch in 1986 and was played by Audra McDonald on Broadway and in the film. In 2017, Holiday was inducted into the National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame.
          "Them There Eyes" is a jazz song written by Maceo Pinkard, Doris Tauber, and William Tracey that was published in 1930. One of the early recorded versions was performed by Louis Armstrong in 1931. It was made famous by Billie Holiday, who recorded her version in 1939 for Vocalion Records. A version by Emile Ford & The Checkmates reached number 18 on the UK Singles Chart in 1960.

I fell in love with you first time I looked into
Them there eyes
You've got a certain lil' cute way of flirtin' with
Them there eyes
They make me feel happy
They make me feel blue
No stallin'
I'm fallin'
Going in a big way for sweet little you
My heart is jumpin'
Sure started somethin with
Them there eyes
You'de better watch them if you're wise
They sparkle
They bubble
They're gonna get you in a whole lot of trouble
You're overworkin' them
There's danger lurkin' in
Them there eyes
 
Maybe you think I'm just flirtin'
Maybe you think I'm all lies
Just because I get romantic when I gaze in
Them there eyes.

SAMBA DO ARNESTO

QUARTETO EM CY
COMPOSITORES: ADONIRAN BARBOSA & ALOCIN
PAÍS: BRASIL
ÁLBUM: BRASIL EM CY
GRAVADORA: CID
GÊNERO: SAMBA
ANO:1996
 
      Quarteto em Cy é um grupo vocal brasileiro  formado em 1964 pelas irmãs Cybele, Cylene, Cynara e Cyva Ribeiro de Sá Leite. É considerado o maior quarteto vocal feminino do Brasil, além de ser o mais antigo. Nascidas em  Ibirataia, Bahia, elas se mudaram para a capital carioca para trabalhar com música, contando com o apoio de Vinícius de Moraes  (que as chamava carinhosamente de "baianinhas").
               Desde 2017 o grupo é formado por Cyva, Cynara, Sonya e CorinA.
                               
O Arnesto nos convidou pra um samba, ele mora no Brás
Nós fumos, não encontremos ninguém
Nós voltermos com uma baita de uma reiva
Da outra vez, nós num vai mais
Nós não semos tatu!
 
O Arnesto nos convidou pra um samba, ele mora no Brás
Nós fumos, não encontremos ninguém
Nós voltermos com uma baita de uma reiva
Da outra vez, nós num vai mais
 
No outro dia encontremo com o Arnesto
Que pediu desculpas, mas nós não aceitemos
Isso não se faz, Arnesto, nós não se importa
Mas você devia ter ponhado um recado na porta
 
O Arnesto nos convidou pra um samba, ele mora no Brás
Nós fumos, não encontremos ninguém
Nós voltermos com uma baita de uma reiva
Da outra vez, nós num vai mais
 
No outro dia encontremo com o Arnesto
Que pediu desculpas, mas nós não aceitemos
Isso não se faz, Arnesto, nós não se importa
Mas você devia ter ponhado um recado na porta
 
Um recado assim ói: "Ói, turma, num deu pra espera
Ah, duvido que isso num faz mar, num tem importância
Assinado em cruz porque não sei escrever"
Arnesto.

TRUST IN ME

ETTA JAMES
SONGWRITERS: JEAN SCHWARTZ; MILTON AGER & NED WEVER
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: AT LAST!
LABEL: ARGO RECORDS
GENRE: BLUES
YEAR: 1960
 
             At Last! is the debut studio album by American blues and soul artist Etta James. Released on Argo Records in November 1960 the album was produced by Phil and Leonard Chess. At Last! also rose to no. 12 upon the Billboard Top Catalog Albums chart.
                At Last! was ranked at #119 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. It was ranked as the 62nd best album of the 1960s by Pitchfork Magazine.
               The original release of At Last! was issued as a 12-inch LP consisting of ten tracks, five songs on each side of the LP. Phil and Leonard Chess believed that James's voice had crossover pop potential, so with this debut album, they backed her with orchestral arrangements on many of the tracks. At Last! eventually spawned four singles being "All I Could Do Was Cry", "Trust in Me", "At Last", and "My Dearest Darling". The album also included covers of pop and jazz standards, such as "Stormy Weather", "A Sunday Kind of Love", and "I Just Want to Make Love to You". In 1987, the album was released for the first time by MCA/Chess, and then digitally remastered and reissued on compact disc in 1999 with four bonus duet tracks performed with Harvey Fuqua: "My Heart Cries," "Spoonful," "It's a Crying Shame," and "If I Can't Have You."

Trust in me in all you do
Have the faith I have in you
Love will see us through, if only you trust in me
Why don't you trust me?
Come to me when things go wrong
 
Cling to me daddy and I'll be Strong
We can get along, we can get along if only you trust in me
While there's a moon, a moon on high
While there are birds, birds to fly
 
While there is you, you and II can be sure that I love you...
Stand beside me, stand beside me all the while
Come on daddy face the future, why don't you smile?
Trust in me, and I'll be worthy of you
Why don't you trust in me in all you do?
Have the faith that I have in you
 
And love will see us through, if only you trust in me
Why don't you come to me, when things go wrong, cling to me and I'll be strong
We can get along, we can get along if only you trust in me...

WAITING AT THE END OF THE ROAD

ETHEL WATERS
SONGWRITERS: IRVING BERLIN
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: ETHEL WATES 100 SUPER BEST
LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS
GENRE: JAZZ
YEAR: 1929
 
              Ethel Waters (October 31, 1896 – September 1, 1977) was an American singer and actress. Waters frequently performed jazz, swing, and pop music on the Broadway stage and in concerts. She began her career in the 1920s singing blues. Waters notable recordings include "Dinah", "Stormy Weather", "Taking a Chance on Love", "Heat Wave", "Supper Time", "Am I Blue?", "Cabin in the Sky", "I'm Coming Virginia", and her version of "His Eye Is on the Sparrow". Waters was the second African American to be nominated for an Academy Award. She was the first African American to star on her own television show and the first African-American woman to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award.
             Waters was born in Chester, Pennsylvania on October 31, 1896 (some sources state her birth year as 1900) as a result of the rape of her teenaged African-American mother, Louise Anderson (1881–1962) by John Waters, (1878–1901), a pianist and family acquaintance from a middle-class African-American background. Waters' family was very fair skinned, her mother in particular. Many sources, including Ethel herself, have reported for years that her mother was 12 or 13 years old at the time of the rape, 13 when Ethel was born. Stephen Bourne opens his 2007 biography, Ethel Waters: Stormy Weather, with the statement that genealogical research has shown that she may have been in her late teens.
          Waters played no role in raising Ethel. Soon after she was born, her mother married Norman Howard, a railroad worker. Ethel used the surname Howard as a child and then reverted to her father's name. She was raised in poverty by Sally Anderson, her grandmother, who worked as a housemaid, and with two of her aunts and an uncle. Waters never lived in the same place for more than 15 months. Of her difficult childhood, she said "I never was a child. I never was cuddled, or liked, or understood by my family."
           Waters grew tall, standing 5 feet 9.5 inches (1.765 m) in her teens. According to jazz historian and archivist Rosetta Reitz, Waters's birth in the North and her peripatetic life exposed her to many cultures. Waters married at the age of 13, but her husband was abusive, and she soon left the marriage and became a maid in a Philadelphia hotel, working for $4.75 per week. On her 17th birthday, she attended a costume party at a nightclub on Juniper Street. She was persuaded to sing two songs and impressed the audience so much that she was offered professional work at the Lincoln Theatre in Baltimore. She recalled that she earned the rich sum of $10 per week, but her managers cheated her out of the tips her admirers threw on the stage.

Weary of roamin' on,
Yearning to see the dawn,
Counting the hours till I can lay down my load.
Weary, but I don't mind,
Knowing that I'll soon find
Peace and contentment at the end of the road.
 
The way is long, the night is dark,
But I don't mind 'cause a happy lark
Will be singing at the end of the road.
I can't go wrong, I must go right,
I'll find my way 'cause a guiding light
Will be shining at the end of the road.
 
There may be thorns in my path, but I'll wear a smile,
For in a little while my path will be roses!
 
The rain may fall from up above,
But I won't stop 'cause the one I love
Will be waiting at the end of the road.
 
Say, the way may be long and the night is dark,
But I don't mind 'cause a happy lark
Will be singing at the end of the road;
And I can't go wrong, I must go right,
I'll find my way 'cause a guiding light
Will be shining at the end of the road.
 
There may be thorns in my path, but I'll wear a smile,
For in a little while my path will be roses!
 
And the rain may fall from up above,
But I won't stop 'cause the one I love
Will be waiting at the end of the road.