Nélson
Gonçalves, nome artístico de Antônio Gonçalves Sobral (Sant'Ana do Livramento, 21 de
junho de 1919 —
Rio
de Janeiro, 18 de abril de 1998), foi um cantor e compositor
brasileiro.
Segundo maior
vendedor de discos da história do Brasil, com mais de 79 milhões de cópias
vendidas até março de 1998, fica atrás apenas de Roberto
Carlos, com mais de 120 milhões. Foi também o artista que mais tempo ficou
em uma mesma gravadora: foram 59 anos com a RCA Victor/BMG Brasil. Seu maior
sucesso foi a canção "A Volta do Boêmio".
Não, eu não posso
lembrar que te amei
Não, eu preciso
esquecer que sofri
Faça de conta que o
tempo passou
E que tudo entre nós
terminou
E que a vida não
continuou pra nós dois
Caminhemos, talvez
nos vejamos depois
Vida comprida,
estrada alongada
Parto à procura de
alguém, à procura de nada
Vou indo, caminhando
sem saber onde chegar
Quem sabe na volta,
te encontre no mesmo lugar.
FORTY DAYS AND FORTY NIGHTS
MUDDY WATERS
SONGWRITER: BERNARD ROTH
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: FORTY DAYS AND FORTY NIGHTS
LABEL: CHESS RECORDS
GENRE: BLUES
YEAR: 1956
McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1913 – April
30, 1983), known professionally as Muddy Waters, was an American bluessinger-songwriter
and musician who was an important figure in the post-warblues scene, and is often cited as the "father of modern Chicago blues".
His style of playing has been described as "raining down Delta beatitude".
Muddy Waters grew up on Stovall
Plantationnear Clarksdale,
Mississippi, and by age 17 was playing the
guitar and the harmonica,
emulating the local blues artists Son Houseand Robert Johnson.
He was recorded in Mississippi by Alan Lomaxfor the Library
of Congressin 1941. In 1943, he moved to
Chicago to become a full-time professional musician. In 1946, he recorded his
first records for Columbia Recordsand then for Aristocrat
Records, a newly formed label run by the brothers Leonardand Phil Chess.
In the early 1950s, Muddy Waters and his
band—Little
Walter Jacobson harmonica, Jimmy Rogerson guitar, Elga
Edmonds(also known as Elgin Evans) on drums
and Otis Spannon piano—recorded several blues classics, some with the bassist and
songwriter Willie Dixon.
These songs included
"Hoochie Coochie Man", "I Just Want to Make Love to You"
and "I'm Ready". In 1958, he traveled to
England, laying the foundations of the resurgence of interest in the blues
there. His performance at the Newport
Jazz Festivalin 1960 was recorded and released as
his first live album, At Newport
1960.
Muddy Waters' music has influenced various American musicgenres, including rock and
rolland rock music.
"Forty Days and Forty Nights" is a
blues song recorded by Muddy Watersin 1956. Called "a big, bold record", it was a hit,
spending six weeks in the Billboard
R&B chart, where it reached number seven. "Forty
Days and Forty Nights" has been interpreted and recorded by a variety of
artists.
Forty days and forty
nights
Since my baby left this town
Sunshinin' all day long
But the rain keep comin' down
She's my life I need her so
Why she left I just don't know
Forty days and forty
nights
Since I set right down and cried
Keep rainin' all the time
But the river is runnin' dry
Lord help me it just ain't right
I love that girl with all-a my might
Forty days and forty
nights
Since my baby broke my heart
Searchin' for her in a while
Like a blind man in the dark
Love can make a poor man rich
Or break his heart I don't know which
Forty days and forty
nights
Like a ship out on the sea
Prayin' for her each night
That she would come back-a home to me
Life is love and love is right
I hope she come back home tonight.
IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND
GORDON LIGHTFOOT
SONGWRITHER: GORDON LIGHTFOOT
COUNTRY: CANADA
ALBUM: SIT DOWN YOUNG STRANGER
LABEL: REPRISE RECORDS
GENRE: FOLK ROCK
YEAR: 1970
Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr. CCOOnt(born November 17, 1938) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and
guitarist who achieved international success in folk,
folk-rock,
and country music.
He is credited with helping to define the folk-popsound of the 1960s and 1970s. He is often referred to as Canada's
greatest songwriter and is known internationally as a folk-rock legend.
Lightfoot's songs, including "For Lovin'
Me", "Early
Morning Rain", "Steel Rail
Blues", "Ribbon of Darkness"—a
number one hit on the U.S. country chart with Marty Robbins's
cover in 1965—and "Black Day in July," about the 1967 Detroit riot,
brought him wide recognition in the 1960s. Canadian chart success with his own
recordings began in 1962 with the Nº. 3 hit "(Remember Me) I'm the
One", followed by recognition and charting abroad in the 1970s. He topped
the US Hot 100 or AC chart with the hits "If You Could Read My Mind"
(1970), "Sundown" (1974); "Carefree
Highway" (1974), "Rainy Day People"
(1975), and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"
(1976), and had many other hits that appeared in the top 40.
Several of Lightfoot's albums achieved goldand multi-platinumstatus internationally. His songs have been recorded by renowned
artists such as Elvis Presley,
Johnny Cash,
Hank Williams Jr.,
The Kingston Trio,
Marty Robbins,
George
Hamilton IV, Jerry Lee Lewis,
Neil Young,
Bob Dylan,
Judy Collins,
Barbra Streisand,
Johnny Mathis,
Herb Alpert,
Harry Belafonte,
Scott
Walker, Sarah
McLachlan, Eric
Clapton, John
Mellencamp, Jack
Jones, Bobby Vee,
Roger Whittaker,
Tony Rice,
Peter,
Paul and Mary, Glen Campbell,
The Grateful Dead,
The Irish Rovers,
Nico, Olivia
Newton-Johnand Paul Weller.
Robbie Robertsonof the Banddescribed Lightfoot as "a national treasure". Bob Dylan,
also a Lightfoot fan, called him one of his favorite songwriters and, in an
often-quoted tribute, Dylan observed that when he heard a Lightfoot song he
wished "it would last forever". Lightfoot was a featured musical
performer at the opening ceremonies of the 1988 Winter Olympic Gamesin Calgary, Alberta.
He received an honorary Doctor of Lawsdegree from Trent
Universityin Spring 1979 and was made a
Companion of the Order of Canada in May 2003. In November 1997, the Governor General's Performing Arts Award,
Canada's highest honour in the performing arts, was bestowed on Lightfoot. On
February 6, 2012, Lightfoot was presented with the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medalby the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario. June of
that year saw his induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. On June
6, 2015, Lightfoot received an honorary doctorate of music in his hometown of
Orillia from Lakehead
University.
"If You Could Read My Mind" is a
song by Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon
Lightfoot. It reached Nº. 1 on the Canadian Singles
Chart on commercial release in 1970 and charted in several other countries on
international release in 1971
Sit Down Young Stranger is Canadiansinger Gordon Lightfoot's
sixth original album and also his best-selling original album. It was released
in 1970 on the Reprise Recordslabel. The album was renamed If You Could Read My Mind shortly
after release, after the song of that titlereached number
1 on the RPMTop Singles chart in Canada and number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100in the US. The album itself reached number 12 on the Billboard
200 chart. In Canada, the album was on the charts from April 18, 1970, to
November 27, 1971. It peaked at number 8 on March 13, 1971 after
an earlier peak at number 12 on June 20, 1970. The last 24 weeks were spent in
the 90 numbers except for 2 times back up to 88 and once at 100.
If you could read my
mind love,
what a tale my thoughts could tell.
Just like an old time movie
about a ghost from a wishing well.
In a castle dark or a fortress strong
with chains upon my feet.
You know that ghost is me
and I will never be set free
as long as I'm a ghost that you can see.
If I could read your mind love,
what a tale your thoughts could tell.
Just like a paperback novel,
the kind the drugstore sells.
When you reach the part where the heartaches
come the hero would be me.
Heroes often fail.
And you won't read that book again
because the endings just to hard to take.
I walk away like a movie star
who gets burned in a three way script.
Enter number two, a movie queen
to play the scene of bringing all the good things out in me,
but for now love lets be real.
I never thought I could act this way
and I've got to say that I just don't get it.
I don't know where we went wrong
but the feelings gone and I just can't get it back.
If you could read my
mind love,
what a tale my thoughts could tell.
Just like an old time movie about a ghost from a wishing well.
In a castle dark or a fortress strong
with chains upon my feet the story always ends.
And if you read between the lines
you'll know that I'm just trying to understand
the feeling that you left.
I never thought I
could feel this way
and I got to say that I just don't get it.
I don't know where we went wrong
but the feelings gone
and I just can't get it back.
CAROLINA IN MY MIND
JAMES TAYLOR
SONGWRITER: JAMES TAYLOR
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: LIVE IN THE UK 1970 – THE RARE LONDON RADIO
BROADCAST
LABEL: APPLE RECORDS
GENRE: FOLK ROCK
YEAR: 1970
James Vernon Taylor (born March 12, 1948) is
an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. A five-time Grammy Awardwinner, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Famein 2000. He is
one of the best-selling music artists of all time,
having sold more than 100 million records worldwide.
Taylor achieved his breakthrough in 1970 with
the No.3 single "Fire
and Rain" and had his first No.1 hit in 1971 with his recording
of "You've
Got a Friend", written by Carole Kingin the same year. His 1976 Greatest Hitsalbum was certified Diamondand has sold 12 million US copies. Following his 1977 album JT,
he has retained a large audience over the decades. Every album that he released from
1977 to 2007 sold over 1 million copies. He
enjoyed a resurgence in chart performance during the late 1990s and 2000s, when
he recorded some of his most-awarded work (including Hourglass, October
Road, and Covers). He achieved his first
number-one album in the USin 2015 with his recording Before This World.
He
is known for his covers, such as "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by
You)" and "Handy
Man", as well as originals such as "Sweet Baby James".
"Carolina in My Mind" is a song
written and performed by singer-songwriter James
Taylor, which first appeared on his 1968 self-titled
debut album. Taylor wrote it while overseas
recording for the Beatles'
label Apple Records,
and the song's themes reflect his homesicknessat the time. Released as a single, the song earned critical praise but not
commercial success. It was re-recorded for Taylor's 1976 Greatest Hitsalbum in the version that
is most familiar to listeners. It has been a staple of Taylor's concert performances
over the decades of his career.
The song was a modest hit on the country
charts in 1969 for North Carolinian singer George
Hamilton IV. Strongly tied to a sense of
geographic place, "Carolina in My Mind" has been called an unofficial
state anthem for North Carolina.
It is also an unofficial song of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
being played at athletic events and pep rallies and sung by the graduating
class at every university commencement. The association of the song with the
state is also made in written works of both fiction and non-fiction. It has
become one of Taylor's most critically praised songs and one that has great
popularity and significance for his audience.
In my mind I'm goin'
to Carolina Can't you see the sunshine Can't you just feel the moonshine Ain't it just like a friend of mine It hit me from behind Yes I'm gone to Carolina in my mind Karen, she's a silver
sun You best walk her way and watch it shinin' Watch her watch the mornin' come A silver tear appearing now I'm cryin' ain't I Gone to Carolina in my mind There ain't no doubt
it no ones mind That loves the finest thing around Whisper something soft and kind And hey babe the sky's on fire I'm dyin' ain't I Gone to Carolina in my mind In my mind I'm goin'
to Carolina Can't you see the sunshine Can't you just feel the moonshine Ain't it just like a friend of mine It hit me from behind Yes I'm goin' to Carolina in my mind Dark and silent late last night I think I might have heard the highway calling Geese in flight and dogs that bite Signs that might be omens say I going, going I'm gone to Carolina in my mind With a holy host of
others standing around me Still I'm on the dark side of the moon And it seems like it goes on like this forever You must forgive me If I'm up and gone to Carolina in my mind In my mind I'm goin'
to Carolina Can't you see the sunshine Can't you just feel the moonshine Ain't it just like a friend of mine It hit me from behind Yes I'm gone to Carolina in my mind Gone to Carolina in my mind Then I'm on to Carolina in my mind Gone to Carolina in my mind Gone, I'm gone, I'm gone Say nice things about me 'Cause I'm gone south Carry on without me 'Cause I'm gone.
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