FADO LARANJEIRA

MARTA PEREIRA DA COSTA & CAMANÉ

COMPOSITORES: JÚLIO CÉSAR VALENTE & ALFREDO MARCENEIRO

PAÍS: PORTUGAL

ÁLBUM: MARTA PEREIRA DA COSTA

GRAVADORA: PARLOPHONE PORTUGAL

GÊNERO: FADO

ANO:2016

 

        Marta Pereira da Costa é a primeira e, actualmente, a única guitarrista profissional de Fado a nível Mundial. A guitarra portuguesa está muito associada ao Fado, e Marta, não esquecendo as raízes e a tradição, arriscou novas sonoridades e procurou dar voz ao seu instrumento pelo mundo do Jazz, World Music, Música Portuguesa. Foi distinguida em 2014 pela Fundação Amália Rodrigues com o "Prémio Instrumentista“.

      Carlos Manuel Moutinho Paiva dos Santos, conhecido por Camané (Oeiras, 20 de Dezembro de 1966), é um fadista português. É irmão mais velho dos fadistas Hélder Moutinho e Pedro Moutinho.

           Camané desperta para a música um pouco por acaso, quando durante a recuperação de uma maleita infantil se embrenhou na coleção de discos dos pais. Além de Frank Sinatra, Charles Aznavour e Os Beatles, deixa-se fascinar pelos grandes intérpretes do Fado: Amália Rodrigues, Fernando Maurício, Lucília do Carmo, Maria Teresa de Noronha, Alfredo Marceneiro e Carlos do Carmo. Como conta o fadista em entrevista ao Diário de Notícias (cf. «Gravei o meu primeiro disco após um telefonema de Amália», in DN, 28 de abril de 2013

Em tenra laranjeira

Ainda pequenina

Onde poisava um melro

Ao declinar do dia

 

Depois de te beijar

A boca purpurina

Um nome ali gravei

O teu nome Maria

Depois de te beijar

A boca purpurina

Um nome ali gravei

O teu nome Maria

 

Em volta um coração

Também com arte e jeito

Ao circundar teu nome

A minha mão gravou

 

Esculpi-lhe uma data

E o trabalho feito

Como selo d' amor

No tronco lá ficou

Esculpi-lhe uma data

E o trabalho feito

Como selo d' amor

No tronco lá ficou

 

Mas no rugoso tronco

Eu vejo com saudade

O símbolo do amor

Que em tempos nos uniu

 

Cadeia de ilusões

Da nossa mocidade

Que o tempo enferrujou

E que depois partiu

Cadeia de ilusões

Da nossa mocidade

Que o tempo enferrujou

E que depois partiu

 

E à linda laranjeira

Altar pregão d'amor

Que tem a cor da esperança

A cor das esmeraldas

 

Vão as noivas colher

As simbólicas flores

Para tecer num sonho

As virginais grinaldas

Vão as noivas colher

As simbólicas flores

Para tecer num sonho

As virginais grinaldas.

COMES A TIME

NEIL YOUNG

SONGWRITER: NEIL YOUNG

COUNTRY: CANADA X U. S. A.

ALBUM: COMES A TIME

LABEL: REPRISE RECORDS

GENRE: FOLK ROCK

YEAR: 1978

 

            Neil Percival Young OC OM (born November 12, 1945) is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter, musician, and activist. After embarking on a music career in the 1960s, he moved to Los Angeles, joining Buffalo Springfield with Stephen Stills, Richie Furay and others. Since his early solo albums and those with his backing band Crazy Horse, Young has been prolific, recording a steady stream of studio and live albums.

             Young has received several Grammy and Juno Awards. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted him twice: in 1995 as a solo artist and in 1997 as a member of Buffalo Springfield. In 2000, Rolling Stone named Young the 34th greatest rock 'n roll artist. His guitar work, deeply personal lyrics and signature tenor singing voice define his long career. He also plays piano and harmonica on many albums, which frequently combine folk, rock, country and other musical styles. His often distorted electric guitar playing, especially with Crazy Horse, earned him the nickname "Godfather of Grunge" and led to his 1995 album Mirror Ball with Pearl Jam. More recently he has been backed by Promise of the Real. His 21 albums and singles have been certified Gold and Platinum in U.S by RIAA certification.

             Young directed (or co-directed) films using the pseudonym Bernard Shakey, including Journey Through the Past (1973), Rust Never Sleeps (1979), Human Highway (1982), Greendale (2003), and CSNY/Déjà Vu (2008). He also contributed to the soundtracks of the films Philadelphia (1993) and Dead Man (1995).

             Young has lived in California since the 1960s but retains Canadian citizenship. He was awarded the Order of Manitoba on July 14, 2006, and was made an Officer of the Order of Canada on December 30, 2009. He became a United States citizen, taking dual citizenship, on January 22, 2020

        Comes a Time is the ninth studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Neil Young, released in October 1978. "Comes a Time" is also the title song and a single release from the album.

          The album originally started out as a solo record, but when Young played it for Reprise executives they asked him if he would consider adding rhythm tracks to what he already had. Young agreed, and the end product was Comes a Time.

Comes a time when you're drifting

Comes a time when you settle down

Comes a light, feeling's lifting

Lift that baby right up off the ground

 

Oh, this old world keeps spinning round

It's a wonder tall trees ain't laying down

There comes a time

 

You and I we were captured

We took our souls and we flew away

We were right, we were giving

That's how we kept what we gave away.

 

Oh, this old world keeps spinning round

It's a wonder tall trees ain't laying down

There comes a time.

HOMEWARD BOUND

SIMON AND GARFUNKEL

SONGWRITER: PAUL SIMON

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: PARSLEY, SAGE, ROSEMARY AND THYME

LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS

GENRE: FOLK

YEAR: 1966

 

             Simon & Garfunkel were an American folk-rock duo consisting of singer-songwriter Paul Simon and singer Art Garfunkel. They were one of the best-selling music groups of the 1960s, and their biggest hits—including "The Sound of Silence" (1965), "Mrs. Robinson" (1968), "The Boxer" (1969), and "Bridge over Troubled Water" (1970)—reached number one on singles charts worldwide.

            Simon and Garfunkel met in elementary school in Queens, New York, in 1953, where they learned to harmonize together and began writing material. By 1957, under the name Tom & Jerry, the teenagers had their first minor success with "Hey Schoolgirl", a song imitating their idols the Everly Brothers. In 1963, aware of a growing public interest in folk music, they regrouped and were signed to Columbia Records as Simon & Garfunkel. Their debut, Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M., sold poorly, and they once again disbanded; Simon returned to a solo career, this time in England. In June 1965, a new version of "The Sound of Silence" overdubbed with electric guitar and drums became a major U.S. AM radio hit, reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100. The duo reunited to release a second studio album, Sounds of Silence, and tour colleges nationwide. On their third release, Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme (1966), the duo assumed more creative control. Their music was featured in the 1967 film The Graduate, giving them further exposure. Their next álbum Bookends (1968) topped the Billboard 200 chart and included the number-one single "Mrs. Robinson" from the film.

         The duo's often rocky relationship led to artistic disagreements and their breakup in 1970. Their final studio album, Bridge over Troubled Water, was released that year and became their most successful, becoming one of the world's best-selling albums. After their breakup, Simon released a number of acclaimed albums, including 1986's Graceland. Garfunkel released solo hits such as "All I Know" and briefly pursued an acting career, with leading roles in two Mike Nichols films, Catch-22 and Carnal Knowledge, and in Nicolas Roeg's 1980 Bad Timing. The duo have reunited several times, most famously in 1981 for "The Concert in Central Park", which attracted more than 500,000 people, one of the largest concert attendances in history.

             Simon & Garfunkel won 10 Grammy Awards and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990. Rolling Stone ranked them number 3 on its list of the 20 Greatest Duos of All Time. Richie Unterberger described them as "the most successful folk-rock duo of the 1960s" and one of the most popular artists from the decade. They are among the best-selling music artists, having sold more than 100 million records. Bridge over Troubled Water is ranked at number 172 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

            "Homeward Bound" is a song by American music duo Simon & Garfunkel written by Paul Simon and produced by Bob Johnston. The song was released as a single on January 19, 1966 by Columbia Records.

        The song appears on the duo's third studio album, Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme (1966), although it was recorded during the sessions for their second album Sounds of Silence and included on that album in the UK. It was their second single, the follow-up to their enormously successful breakthrough hit "The Sound of Silence". It performed very well domestically, peaking at number five on the Billboard Hot 100, remaining on the charts for 12 weeks. Internationally, the song performed best in Canada, where it hit number two; it was also a top five hit in the Netherlands.

           A live version of the song is included on the compilation Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits, and it was also performed during the duo's legendary 1981 reunion, The Concert in Central Park.

I'm sitting in the railway station

Got a ticket for my destination

 

On a tour of one-night stands

My suitcase and guitar in hand

And every stop is neatly planned

For a poet and one-man band

 

Homeward bound

I wish I was

Homeward bound

Home, where my thought's escaping

Home, where my music's playing

Home, where my love lies waiting

Silently for me

 

Every day's an endless stream

Of cigarettes and magazines

 

And each town looks the same to me

The movies and the factories

And every stranger's face I see

Reminds me that I long to be

 

Homeward bound

I wish I was

Homeward bound

Home, where my thought's escaping

Home, where my music's playing

Home, where my love lies waiting

Silently for me

 

Tonight I'll sing my songs again

I'll play the game and pretend

 

But all my words come back to me

In shades of mediocrity

Like emptiness in harmony

I need someone to comfort me

 

Homeward bound

I wish I was

Homeward bound

Home, where my thought's escaping

Home, where my music's playing

Home, where my love lies waiting

Silently for me

Silently for me.

THE HAPPY GIRLS

HELEN REDDY

SONGWRITERS: Kim Fowley; Rick Henn; Earle Mankey & Helen Reddy

COUNTRY: AUSTRALIA X U. S. A.

ALBUM: EAR CANDY

LABEL: CAPITOLIO RECORDS

GENRE: POP ROCK

YEAR: 1977

 

        Helen Maxine Reddy (25 October 1941 – 29 September 2020) was an Australian-American singer, songwriter, author, actress, and activist. Born in Melbourne, Victoria, to a show-business family, Reddy started her career as an entertainer at age four. She sang on radio and television and won a talent contest on the television program Bandstand in 1966; her prize was a ticket to New York City and a record audition, which was unsuccessful. She pursued her international singing career by moving to Chicago, and subsequently, Los Angeles, where she made her debut singles "One Way Ticket" and "I Believe in Music" in 1968 and 1970, respectively. The B-side of the latter single, "I Don't Know How to Love Him", reached number eight on the pop chart of the Canadian magazine, RPM. She was signed to Capitol Records a year later.

During the 1970s, Reddy enjoyed international success, especially in the United States, where she placed 15 singles on the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100. Six made the top 10 and three reached number one, including her signature hit "I Am Woman". She placed 25 songs on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart; 15 made the top 10 and eight reached number one, six consecutively. In 1974, at the inaugural American Music Awards, she won the award for Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist. On television, she was the first Australian to host a one-hour weekly primetime variety show on an American network, along with specials that were seen in more than 40 countries.

           Between the 1980s and 1990s, as her single "I Can't Say Goodbye to You" became her last to chart in the US, Reddy acted in musicals and recorded albums such as Center Stage before retiring from live performance in 2002. She returned to university in Australia, earned a degree, and practised as a clinical hypnotherapist and motivational speaker. In 2011, after singing "Breezin' Along with the Breeze" with her half-sister, Toni Lamond, for Lamond's birthday, Reddy decided to return to live performing.

Reddy's song "I Am Woman" played a significant role in popular culture, becoming an anthem for second-wave feminism. She came to be known as a "feminist poster girl" or a "feminist icon". In 2011, Billboard named her the number-28 adult contemporary artist of all time (the number-9 woman). In 2013, the Chicago Tribune dubbed her the "Queen of '70s Pop"

       Ear Candy is the ninth studio album by Australian-American pop singer Helen Reddy, released on April 25, 1977 by Capitol Records. The album included a modern take on the doo-wop genre ("Long Distance Love"), a Cajun number that gave the Melbourne native her first and only appearance on Billboard magazine's Country chart ("Laissez les Bontemps Rouler"), and a dark self-parody on which Reddy proclaims: "I don't take no shit from nobody" ("Baby, I'm a Star" - not to be confused with the Prince song of the same name). Unprecedented for a Helen Reddy album, half of the songs recorded for Ear Candy were co-written by Reddy herself, including the second single: "The Happy Girls", Reddy's first self-penned A-side single since "I am Woman": however it was the first single: a remake of the 1964 Cilla Black hit "You're My World", which would afford Reddy a final Top 40 hit. 

And do I love you?

Well I know I really try;

Thinking of you;

Loving the sunshine in your eyes.

 

And when I falter,

Bringing you grief

Does it alter your feeling for me?

Oh baby can't you see?

 

That we're sharing,

All the ups we have in life,

While comparing,

All the downs that we've survived.

 

But how much stronger

Our love becomes.

And the longer we're living as one,

The more we'll overcome.

 

And I have lived the greatest love song,

That my singer's years have ever heard.

You make this weary woman happy.

I overflow, it's cause I know

You wouldnt trade me,

For the moon inside a jar

For you've made me

Both the moon and the stars

 

And in our twilight,

We will recall, that the highlight

For us in this world,

Was having dreams come true.

 

I'm so comfortable with you.

Jeff, you've made my dreams come true.

Here's a love song just for you.