NATAL TODO DIA

ROUPA NOVA
COMPOSITOR: MAURÍCIO GAETANI
PAÍS: BRASIL
ALBUM: NATAL TODO DIA
GRAVADORA: UNIVERSAL MUSIC
GÊNERO: MÚSICA DE NATAL
ANO: 2007
 
        Roupa Nova é um conjunto musical de Pop Rock/soft rock brasileiro formado no Rio de Janeiro em 1980 por Cleberson Horsth (teclados e voz), Ricardo Feghali (teclados e voz), Kiko (guitarra e voz), Nando Oliveira (baixo e voz), Serginho Herval (bateria e voz) e Paulinho (voz e percussão). Em 2020, o grupo completou 40 anos de carreira com essa mesma formação, da qual Paulinho e Serginho se destacaram como os principais vocalistas e Cleberson, Nando, Kiko e Ricardo como os principais compositores.
             As origens do Roupa Nova remontam ao grupo Os Famks, uma banda formada em 1967 para animar festas e bailes cariocas. Embora nenhum dos futuros integrantes do Roupa Nova tenha participado da criação Os Famks, foi nesse grupo carioca de baile que eles foram se reunindo, um a um, na primeira metade da década de 1970 até formarem o sexteto que seria o embrião do Roupa Nova. Ainda sob o nome Os Famks, eles lançaram dois álbuns de estúdio com composições influenciadas pelo rock internacional da época e também gravaram, sob o pseudônimo Os Motokas, diversos LPs com versões covers de sucessos daquela época. A grande mudança na trajetória do grupo ocorreu na virada para a década de 1980, quando o grupo conseguiu um contrato com a gravadora Polygram. Decididos a investirem em um trabalho mais autoral, o grupo foi rebatizado para Roupa Nova, nome de uma canção então inédita de Milton Nascimento e Fernando Brant que, gravada pelo sexteto naquele ano, iniciou uma das carreiras mais bem-sucedidas do pop brasileiro.
            Com uma liberdade artística considerável, o Roupa Nova investiu em uma sonoridade pop rock marcadamente sofisticada, comercial e repleta de harmonias vocais, às vezes comparáveis ao formato de rádio AORs de bandas como Toto. Embora desagradasse parte da crítica musical brasileira, o sexteto carioca alcançou significativo sucesso no mercado fonográfico do Brasil ao longo de quase quatro décadas de carreira, com a gravação de 19 álbuns de estúdio e 5 álbuns ao vivo que somados venderam mais de 20 milhões de cópias no país. Discos como Roupa Nova (1985) e Herança (1987) superaram a marca de 1 milhões de cópias vendidase se tornaram dois dos LPs mais vendidos da música brasileira daquele período. Diversas canções do grupo integraram trilhas sonoras nas telenovelas brasileiras e se tornaram grandes êxitos comerciais como “Anjo”, em “Guerra dos Sexos” (1983), “Dona”, em “Roque Santeiro” (1985), e “Whisky A-Go-Go”, em “Um Sonho a Mais” (também em 1985). Mesmo com o sucesso próprio, o Roupa Nova seguiu como banda de estúdio requisitada em gravações em discos de estrelas da MPB como Gal Costa, Zizi Possi, Milton Nascimento, entre outros, graças à reputação profissional. Também participaram, ainda que não fossem creditados como músicos, de discos de bandas de rock brasileiro nascentes na primeira metade dos anos 1980. Também sob encomenda, o grupo gravou composições como o "Tema da Vitória", tocada nas transmissões de Fórmula 1 da Rede Globo, e o tema original do festival Rock in Rio.
           Após o auge nos anos 1980, o Roupa Nova amargou um período de menor visibilidade midiática a partir de meados da década de 1990, embora o grupo mantivesse bastante ativa sua agenda de apresentações ao vivo. Com o lançamento do álbum e do show Roupacústico (2004), a banda recuperou o caminho do sucesso comercial. O álbum Roupa Nova em Londres (2009), gravado no Abbey Road Studios em Londres, venceu o Grammy Latino na categoria Melhor Álbum Pop Contemporâneo Brasileiro.
           Natal Todo Dia é o décimo quinto álbum de estúdio do grupo carioca Roupa Nova, lançado em novembro de 2007, sendo um álbum dedicado à músicas natalinas. O álbum conta com canções inéditas, regravações em português e regravações do original em inglês. É o terceiro trabalho lançado pelo selo próprio, Roupa Nova Music. Tem a participação de David Gates (ex Bread) e do coral dos Canarinhos de Petrópolis nas músicas "Natal Todo Dia", "A Paz" e "Então é Natal".
Um clima de sonho se espalha no ar
Pessoas se olham com brilho no olhar
A gente já sente chegando o Natal
É tempo de amor, todo mundo é igual
 
Os velhos amigos irão se abraçar
Os desconhecidos irão se falar
E quem for criança vai olhar pro céu
Fazendo pedido pro velho Noel
 
Se a gente é capaz de espalhar alegria
Se a gente é capaz de toda essa magia
Eu tenho certeza que a gente podia
Fazer com que fosse Natal todo dia
 
Se a gente é capaz de espalhar alegria
Se a gente é capaz de toda essa magia
Eu tenho certeza que a gente podia
Fazer com que fosse Natal todo dia
 
Um jeito mais manso de ser e falar
Mais calma, mais tempo pra gente se dar
Me diz porque só no Natal é assim
Que bom se ele nunca tivesse mais fim
 
Que o Natal comece no seu coração
Que seja pra todos, sem ter distinção
Um gesto, um sorriso, um abraço, o que for
O melhor presente é sempre o amor.

SUZY SNOWFLAKE

ROSEMARY CLOONEY
SONGWRITERS: ROY C. BENNETT & SID TEPPER
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: SUZY SNOWFLEKE
LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS
GENRE: CHRISTMAS SONG
YEAR: 1951
 
             Rosemary Clooney (May 23, 1928 – June 29, 2002) was an American singer and actress. She came to prominence in the early 1950s with the song "Come On-a My House", which was followed by other pop numbers such as "Botch-a-Me", "Mambo Italiano", "Tenderly", "Half as Much", "Hey There" and "This Ole House". She also had success as a jazz vocalist. Clooney's career languished in the 1960s, partly due to problems related to depression and drug addiction, but revived in 1977, when her White Christmas co-star Bing Crosby asked her to appear with him at a show marking his 50th anniversary in show business. She continued recording until her death in 2002.
          "Suzy Snowflake" is a song written by Sid Tepper and Roy C. Bennett, made famous by Rosemary Clooney in 1951 and released as a 78 RPM record by Columbia Records, MJV-123.
                Suzy is a snowflake playfully personified. It is commonly regarded as a Christmas song, although it makes no mention of the holiday. The child-oriented lyrics celebrate the fun of winter.
             A cartoon short based on the song was made in 1953 by Centaur Productions, with stop-motion animation created by Wah Ming Chang. It is annually shown during the Christmas season on WGN-TV in Chicago, along with another production by Centaur, "Hardrock, Coco and Joe" and an early UPA version of "Frosty the Snowman". WJAC-TV in Johnstown, PA also runs these three cartoon shorts during the Christmas season.
            Clooney later re-recorded the song for her 1978 Mistletoe Records album Christmas with Rosemary Clooney. It has been covered by other artists, most notably Soul Coughing in 1997.
Here comes
Suzy Snowflake
Dressed
In a snow white gown
Tap-tap-tapping
At your window pane
To tell you
She's in town
 
If you wanna make
A snow man
I'll help you make one
One-two-three
And if you wanna take
A sleigh ride
Whoop the ride's on me
 
Here comes
Suzy Snowflake
Look at her
Tumbling down
Bringing joy
To every girl and boy
Suzy's come to town
 
If you wanna take
A snowman
I'll help you take one
One-two-three
And if you wanna make
A sleigh ride
Whoop the ride's on me
 
Here comes
Suzy Snowflake
Look at her
Tumbling down
Bringing joy
To every girl and boy
Suzy's come to town.

BLUE CHRISTMAS

ELVIS PRESLEY
SONGWRITERS: BILL HAYES & JAY JOHNSON
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: ELVIS’ CHRISTMAS ALBUM
LABEL: RCA VICTOR
GENRE: CHRISTMAS SONG
YEAR: 1957
 
              Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), also known simply as Elvis, was an American singer, musician and actor. He is regarded as one of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century and is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King". His energized interpretations of songs and sexually provocative performance style, combined with a singularly potent mix of influences across color lines during a transformative era in race relations, led him to great success—and initial controversy.
            Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, and relocated to Memphis, Tennessee, with his family when he was 13 years old. His music career began there in 1954, recording at Sun Records with producer Sam Phillips, who wanted to bring the sound of African-American music to a wider audience. Presley, on rhythm acoustic guitar, and accompanied by lead guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black, was a pioneer of rockabilly, an uptempo, backbeat-driven fusion of country music and rhythm and blues. In 1955, drummer D. J. Fontana joined to complete the lineup of Presley's classic quartet and RCA Victor acquired his contract in a deal arranged by Colonel Tom Parker, who would manage him for more than two decades. Presley's first RCA single, "Heartbreak Hotel", was released in January 1956 and became a number-one hit in the United States. With a series of successful network television appearances and chart-topping records, he became the leading figure of the newly popular sound of rock and roll.
              In November 1956, Presley made his film debut in Love Me Tender. Drafted into military service in 1958, Presley relaunched his recording career two years later with some of his most commercially successful work. He held few concerts, however, and guided by Parker, proceeded to devote much of the 1960s to making Hollywood films and soundtrack albums, most of them critically derided. In 1968, following a seven-year break from live performances, he returned to the stage in the acclaimed television comeback special Elvis, which led to an extended Las Vegas concert residency and a string of highly profitable tours. In 1973, Presley gave the first concert by a solo artist to be broadcast around the world, Aloha from Hawaii. Years of prescription drug abuse severely compromised his health, and he died suddenly in 1977 at his Graceland estate at the age of 42.
              With his rise from poverty to significant fame, Presley's success seemed to epitomize the American Dream. He is the best-selling solo music artist of all time, and was commercially successful in many genres, including pop, country, R&B, adult contemporary, and gospel. He won three Grammy Awards, received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award at age 36, and has been inducted into multiple music halls of fame. Presley holds several records; the most RIAA certified gold and platinum albums, the most albums charted on the Billboard 200, and the most number-one albums by a solo artist on the UK Albums Chart and the most number-one singles by any act on the UK Singles Chart. In 2018, Presley was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
           Elvis' Christmas Album (also reissued as It's Christmas Time) is the third studio album and first Christmas album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley on RCA Victor, LOC -1035, a deluxe limited edition, released October 15, 1957, and recorded at Radio Recorders in Hollywood. It has been reissued in numerous different formats since its first release. It spent four weeks at Nº. 1 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart, and was the first of two Christmas-themed albums Presley would record, the other being Elvis Sings the Wonderful World of Christmas, released in 1971. The publication Music Vendor listed Elvis' Christmas Album on their singles charts for two weeks in December 1957 – January 1958, with a peak position of No. 49.
         According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), Elvis' Christmas Album along with its reissues has shipped at least 17 million copies in the United States. It is the first Presley title to attain Diamond certification by the RIAA, and is also the best-selling Christmas album of all time in the United States. With total sales of more 20 million copies worldwide, it remains the world's best-selling Christmas album and one of the best-selling albums of all time.

I'll have a Blue Christmas without you
I'll be so blue just thinking about you
Decorations of red on a green Christmas tree
Won't be the same dear, if you're not here with me
 
And when those blue snowflakes start falling
That's when those blue memories start calling
You'll be doin' all right with your Christmas of with
But I'll have a blue, blue, blue Christmas
 
You'll be doin' all right, with your Christmas of white,
But I'll have a blue, blue blue Christmas. 

LIGHT A CANDLE IN THE CHAPEL

FRANK SINATRA
SONGWRITERS: DAVE BINDER; DUKE LEONARD; ED G NELSON & HARRY PEASE
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: LIGHT A CANDLE IN THE CHAPEL
LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS
GENRE: CHRISTMAS SONG
YEAR: 1942
 
                Francis Albert Sinatra (/sɪˈnɑːtrə/; December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer, actor and producer who was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century. He is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 150 million records worldwide.
             Born to Italian immigrants in Hoboken, New Jersey, Sinatra was greatly influenced by the intimate easy listening vocal style of Bing Crosby and began his musical career in the swing era with bandleaders Harry James and Tommy Dorsey. Sinatra found success as a solo artist after he signed with Columbia Records in 1943, becoming the idol of the "bobby soxers". He released his debut album, The Voice of Frank Sinatra, in 1946. But by the early 1950s his professional career had stalled and he turned to Las Vegas, where he became one of its best known residency performers as part of the Rat Pack. His career was reborn in 1953 with the success of From Here to Eternity, with his performance subsequently winning an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor. Sinatra released several critically lauded albums, including In the Wee Small Hours (1955), Songs for Swingin' Lovers! (1956), Come Fly with Me (1958), Only the Lonely (1958) and Nice 'n' Easy (1960).
              Sinatra left Capitol in 1960 to start his own record label, Reprise Records, and released a string of successful albums. In 1965, he recorded the retrospective album, September of My Years and starred in the Emmy-winning television special Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music. After releasing Sinatra at the Sands, recorded at the Sands Hotel and Casino in Vegas with frequent collaborator Count Basie in early 1966, the following year he recorded one of his most famous collaborations with Tom Jobim, the album Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim. It was followed by 1968's Francis A. & Edward K. with Duke Ellington. Sinatra retired for the first time in 1971, but came out of retirement two years later. He recorded several albums and resumed performing at Caesars Palace, and released "New York, New York" in 1980. Using his Las Vegas shows as a home base, he toured both within the United States and internationally until shortly before his death in 1998.
                 Sinatra forged a highly successful career as a film actor. After winning an Academy Award for From Here to Eternity, he starred in The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), and received critical acclaim for his performance in The Manchurian Candidate (1962). He appeared in various musicals such as On the Town (1949), Guys and Dolls (1955), High Society (1956), and Pal Joey (1957), winning another Golden Globe for the latter. Toward the end of his career, he frequently played detectives, including the title character in Tony Rome (1967). Sinatra would later receive the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1971. On television, The Frank Sinatra Show began on ABC in 1950, and he continued to make appearances on television throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Sinatra was also heavily involved with politics from the mid-1940s, and actively campaigned for presidents such as Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan. Sinatra was investigated by the FBI for his alleged relationship with the Mafia.
            While Sinatra never learned how to read music, he worked very hard from a young age to improve his abilities in all aspects of music. A perfectionist, renowned for his dress sense and performing presence, he always insisted on recording live with his band. His bright blue eyes earned him the popular nickname "Ol' Blue Eyes". Sinatra led a colorful personal life, and was often involved in turbulent affairs with women, such as with his second wife Ava Gardner. He later married Mia Farrow in 1966 and Barbara Marx in 1976. Sinatra had several violent confrontations, usually with journalists he felt had crossed him, or work bosses with whom he had disagreements. He was honored at the Kennedy Center Honors in 1983, was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Ronald Reagan in 1985, and the Congressional Gold Medal in 1997. Sinatra was also the recipient of eleven Grammy Awards, including the Grammy Trustees Award, Grammy Legend Award and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. He was collectively included in Time magazine's compilation of the 20th century's 100 most influential people. After Sinatra's death, American music critic Robert Christgau called him "the greatest singer of the 20th century", and he continues to be seen as an iconic figure.
Light a candle in the chapel
At the closing of each day
Keep it burning while you're yearning
For the one who went away
Say a pray'r and ask the angel
To guide and to watch from above
 
Light a candle in the chapel
For the one you love
 
Say a pray'are and ask the angel
To guide and to watch from above
Light a candle in the chapel
For the one you love.