QUE QUERES TU DE MIM

ALTEMAR DUTRA
COMPOSITORES: EVALDO MOREIRA & JAIR AMORIM
PAÍS: BRASIL
ÁLBUM: ESPECIAL
GRAVADORA: EMI MUSIC BRASIL LTDA.
GÉNERO: BOLERO
ANO: 1990
 
         Altemar Dutra de Oliveira (Aimorès, 6 de outubro de 1940 — Nova Iorque, 9 de novembro de 1983) foi um cantor e compositor brasileiro.
        Sucesso em toda a Amèrica Latina, interpretando obras como "Sentimental Demais", "O Trovador", "Brigas" e "Que Queres Tu de Mim", boa parte das canções de autoria da dupla Evaldo Gouveia e Jair Amorim, foi progressivamente destacando-se no gênero musical bolero. De fato, veio a ser aclamado como o "rei do bolero" no Brasil.
       Iniciou sua carreira na Rádio Difusora de Colatina, no Esírito Santo, localidade para onde sua família havia se mudado, cantando uma música de Francisco Alves. Antes de completar sua maioridade, seguiu para o Rio de Janeiro, levando uma carta de apresentação para o compositor Jair Amorim, que o encaminhou a amigos do meio artístico. Tentou a sorte como crooner em boates e casas de espetáculos.

Que queres tu de mim
Que fazes junto a mim
Se tudo está perdido amor
 
Que mais me podes dar
Se nada tens a dar
Que a marca de uma nova dor
 
Loucura reviver
Inútil se querer
O amor que não se tem
 
Por que voltaste aqui
Se estando junto a ti
Eu sinto que estou sem ninguém
 
Que pensas tu que eu sou
Se julgas que ainda vou
Pedir que não me deixes mais
 
Não tenho que pedir
Nem sei o que pedir
Se tudo que desejo é paz
 
Que culpa tenho eu
Se tudo se perdeu
Se tu quiseste assim
 
E então que queres tu de mim
Se até o pranto que chorei
Se foi por ti não sei.

THE NIGHT THEY DROVE OLD DIXIE DOWN

JOAN BAEZ
SONGWRITER: ROBBIE ROBERTSoN
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: 20th CENTURY (HOW SWEET THE SONG)
LABEL: VANGUARD RECORDS
GENRE: COUNTRY FOLK
YEAR: 1971
 
             Joan Chandos Baez (/baɪz/; born January 9, 1941) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and activist. Her contemporary folk music often includes songs of protest and social justice. Baez has performed publicly for over 60 years, releasing over 30 albums. Fluent in Spanish and English, she has also recorded songs in at least six other languages.
              Baez is generally regarded as a folk singer, but her music has diversified since the counterculture era of the 1960s and encompasses genres such as folk rock, pop, country, and gospel music. She began her recording career in 1960 and achieved immediate success. Her first three albums, Joan Baez, Joan Baez, Vol. 2 and Joan Baez in Concert, all achieved gold record status. Although a songwriter herself, Baez generally interprets other composers' work, having recorded songs by the Allman Brothers Band, the Beatles, Jackson Browne, Leonard Cohen, Woody Guthrie, Violeta Parra, the Rolling Stones, Pete Seeger, Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder, Bob Marley, and many others. She was one of the first major artists to record the songs of Bob Dylan in the early 1960s; Baez was already an internationally celebrated artist and did much to popularize his early songwriting efforts. On her later albums she has found success interpreting the work of more recent songwriters, including Ryan Adams, Josh Ritter, Steve Earle, Natalie Merchant, and Joe Henry.
          Baez's acclaimed songs include "Diamonds & Rust" and covers of Phil Ochs's "There but for Fortune" and The Band's "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down". She is also known for "Farewell, Angelina", "Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word", "Forever Young", "Here's to You", "Joe Hill", "Sweet Sir Galahad" and "We Shall Overcome". Baez performed fourteen songs at the 1969 Woodstock Festival and has displayed a lifelong commitment to political and social activism in the fields of nonviolence, civil rights, human rights, and the environment. Baez was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on April 7, 2017.
           The most successful version of the song was the one by Joan Baez, which became a RIAA-certified Gold record on 22 October 1971. Besides its aforementioned chart action on the Hot 100, the record spent five weeks atop the easy listening chart. Billboard ranked it as the Nº. 20 song for 1971. The version reached number six in the pop charts in the UK in October 1971.
          The Baez recording had some changes in the lyrics. Baez later told Rolling Stone's Kurt Loder that she initially learned the song by listening to the recording on the Band's album, and had never seen the printed lyrics at the time she recorded it, and thus sang the lyrics as she had (mis)heard them. In more recent years in her concerts, Baez has performed the song as originally written by Robertson.

Virgil Caine is my name and I drove on the Danville train
'til Soneman’s cavalry came and tore up the tracks again
In the winter of '65, we were hungry, just barely alive
I took the train to Richmond that fell
It was a time I remember, oh, so well
 
(CHORUS)
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the bells were ringin'
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the people were singin'
They went, "Na, na, na, na, na, na, ¡¦¡¦¡¦ "
 
Back with my wife in Tenesse
Whene one day she said to me,
"Virgil, Quick! Come see!
There goes Robert E. Lee."
Now I don't mind, I'm chopping wood
And I don't care if the money's no good
Just take what ya need and ya leave the rest
But they should never have taken the very best
 
(CHORUS)
Like my father before me, I'will work the land
And like my brother above me, I took a rebel stand
Oh, he was just eighteen, proud and brave
But a yankee laid him in his grave
I swear by the blood below my feet
You can't raise the Cane back up when he's in defeat.
 
(CHORUS)

EL PERRO NEGRO

JOSÉ ALFREDO JIMÉNEZ
COMPOSITOT: JOSÉ ALFREDO JIMÉNEZ
PAIS: MÉXICO
ÁLBUM: JOSÉALFREDO JIMÉNEZ VCANTA SUS “ÉXITOS”
DISCOGRÁFICA: RCA VICTOR
GÉNERO: RANCHERA
AÑO: 1989
 
         José Alfredo Jiménez Sandoval, (Dolores Hidalgo, Guanajuato, México; 19 de enero de 1926 - Ciudad de México, 23 de noviembre de 1973), fue un cantante y compositor mexicano, famoso por crear una gran cantidad de temas en el género regional mexicano, principalmente rancheras, sones y corridos a ritmo de mariachi y banda. Todos ellos reconocidos por su calidad y sencillez armónica, melódica y lírica.

Al otro lado del puente
De la Piedad, Michoacán,
Vivía Gilberto "El Valiente"
Nacido en Apatzingán,
Siempre con un perro negro,
Que era su noble guardián.
 
Quería vivir con "la Lupe",
La novia de don Julián,
Hombre de mucho dinero,
Acostumbrado a mandar,
Él ya sabía de Gilberto
Y lo pensaba matar.
 
Un día que no estaba el perro
Llegó buscando al rival;
Gilberto estaba dormido …
Ya no volvió a despertar.
 
En eso se oyó un aullido …
Cuentan de un perro del mal,
Era el negro embravecido
Que dió muerte a Don Julián.
 
Allí quedaron los cuerpos,
Lupita no fue a llorar,
Cortó las flores más lindas
Como pa'hacer un altar,
Y las llevó hasta una tumba
Del panteón municipal.
 
Allí estaba echado un perro,
Sin comer y sin dormir,
Quería mirar a su dueño,
No le importaba vivir.
 
Así murió el perro negro,
Aquel enorme guardián,
Que quiso mucho a Gilberto
Y dio muerte a Don Julián.

EN MI VIEJO SAN JUAN

JAVIER SOLIS
COMPOSITOR: NOEL ESTRADA
PAIS: MÉXICO
ÁLBUM: SOMBRAS
DISCOGRÁFICA: CBS COLUMBIA MÉXICO
GÉNERO: BOLERO RANCHERA
AÑO: 1965
 
               Gabriel Siria Levario (Ciudad de México,1 de septiembre de 1931 - 19 de abril de 1966), más conocido como Javier Solís, fue un cantante y actor mexicano, conocido también como El Rey del Bolero Ranchero.
            Notoriedad y extraña consideración tuvo Javier Solís al hablar constantemente de la localidad de Nogales, en el estado de Sonora. Se rumoró por mucho tiempo pero donde nació fue en la Ciudad de México. Existen documentos oficiales, que indican que nació el 1 de septiembre de 1931 en el Hospital Nacional Homeopático, ubicado entre las calles 5 de Febrero y Chimalpopoca, Col. Obrera, Delegación Cuauhtémoc en México, D. F. En ese mismo hospital nacieron sus hermanos Fernando en 1933 y Arturo en 1935.» Sin embargo, no hay fuentes que acrediten a Solís como sonorense, excepto la biografía publicada por la disquera CBS Columbia, que publicó su origen norteño en un LP.

En mi viejo San Juan
Cuántos sueños forjé
En mis noches de infancia
Mi primera ilusión
Y mis cuitas de amor
Son recuerdos del alma
 
Una tarde me fui
Hacia extraña nación
Pues lo quiso el destino
Pero mi corazón
Se quedó frente al mar
En mi viejo San Juan
 
Adiós, adiós, adiós
Borinquen querida
Tierra de mi amor
Adiós, adiós, adiós
Mi diosa del mar
Mi reina del palmar
 
Me voy pero un día volveré
A buscar mi querer
A soñar otra vez
En mi viejo San Juan
 
Pero el tiempo pasó
Y el destino burló
Mi terrible nostalgia
Y no pude volver
Al San Juan que yo amé
Pedacito de patria
 
Mi cabello blanqueó
Y mi vida se va
Ya la muerte me llama
Y no quiero morir
Alejado de ti
Puerto Rico del alma
 
Adiós, adiós, adiós
Borinquen querida
Tierra de mi amor
Adiós, adiós, adiós
Mi diosa del mar
Mi reina del palmar
 
Me voy pero un día volveré
A buscar mi querer
A soñar otra vez
En mi viejo San Juan.