TODAY I STARTED LOVING YOU AGAIN

MERLE HAGGARD

SONGWRITER: MERLE HAGGARD & BONNIE OWENS

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: OKIE FROM MUSKOGEE 45^TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL

LABEL: CAPITOL RECORDS

GENRE: COUNTRY

YEAR: 1970

 

            Merle Ronald Haggard (April 6, 1937 – April 6, 2016) was an American country singer, songwriter, guitarist, and fiddler.

           Haggard was born in Oildale, California, during the Great Depression. His childhood was troubled after the death of his father, and he was incarcerated several times in his youth. After being released from San Quentin State Prison in 1960, he managed to turn his life around and launch a successful country music career. He gained popularity with his songs about the working class that occasionally contained conformist and jingoistic themes contrary to the prevailing anti-Vietnam War sentiment of much popular music of the time. Between the 1960s and the 1980s, he had 38 number-one hits on the US country charts, several of which also made the Billboard all-genre singles chart. Haggard continued to release successful albums into the 2000s.

        He received many honors and awards for his music, including a Kennedy Center Honor (2010), a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (2006), a BMI Icon Award (2006), and induction into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame (1977), Country Music Hall of Fame (1994) and Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame (1997). He died on April 6, 2016—his 79th birthday—at his ranch in Shasta County, California, having recently suffered from double pneumonia. 

Today I Started Loving You Again

I'm right back where I've really always been;

I got over you just long enough to let my heartache mend,

then Today I Started Loving You Again.

 

What a fool I was to think I could get by

With only these few million tears I've cried.

I should have known the worst was yet to come.

And that crying time for me had just begun.

 

'Cause Today I Started Loving You Again,

I'm right back where I've really always been;

I got over you just long enough to let my heartache mend,

then Today I Started Loving You Again.

BABALU

ANGELA MARIA

COMPOSITOR: MARGARITA LECUONA

PAÍS: BRASIL

ÁLBUM: ANGELA MARIA Nº 2

GRAVADORA: COPACABANA

GÊNERO: BOLERO

ANO: 1952

 

           Angela Maria, nome artìstico de Abelim Maria da Cunha (Macaé, 13 DE maio de 1929 – São Paulo, 29 de setembro de 2018) foi uma cantora, compositora e atriz brasileira, expoente da Era do Rádio, considerada dona de uma das melhores vozes da MPB e eleita a rAINHA DO Rádio em 1954. Também é uma das cantoras brasileiras que mais venderam discos, cerca de 60 milhões de discos. Angela Maria é conhecida pelos grandes críticos da música nacional e internacional como a maior voz do Brasil.

            Intérprete de canções como Babalu (Margarita Lecuona), Gente Humilde (Garoto/Chico Buarque/Vinicius de Moraes), Cinderela (Adelino Moreira) e Orgulho (Waldir Rocha/Nelson Wederkind), serviu como fonte de inspiração para artistas como Elis Regina, Djavan, Milton Nascimento, Ney Matogrosso, Cesária Évora e Gal Costa, além de ter sido, comprovadamente pelo Ibope, por um longo período, a cantora mais popular do Brasil e conquistado a admiração de personalidades como Édith Piaf, Getúlio Vargas, Juscelino Kubitschek, Amália Rodrigues e Louis Armstrong.

           Margarita Lecuona, cantora e compositora, nasceu em Havana, Cuba, em 18 de abril de 1910 e faleceu em Nova Jersey, EUA, em 1981. Teve uma infância de muitas viagens, por seu pai ser diplomata. Já adolescente regressa e se estabelece em Havana e faz seus estudos regulares. Começa a estudar música, primeiro com a professora Clara Romero, que lhe ensina o manejo do violão. Suas primeiras composições datam de 1930. Escreve Tabú, inspirado em um antigo escravo, muito velho, que conheceu desde menina, escutando seus contos. O trovador Guyún dá a conhecer essa composição, popularizando-a. Quando a gravam com a orquestra de Rosa e Antonio Machín em Nova York, em 1934, e a orquestra Lecuona Cubans Boys na Europa, em 1935, rapidamente se converte numa compositora internacional. Igual se sucede com Babalú da mesma inspiração litúrgica afrocubana e com o mesmo sabor exótico, gravada pela orquestra Casino de la Playa, cantando Miguelito Valdés. Morou na Argentina e fez apresentações em vários países, com atuações em um trio como cantora solista. Radicou-se nos EUA em 1960. Compôs mais de 300 obras, entre as que se destacam, os boleros Eclipse, De nada vale, Tú lo eres todo, Bienvenido, Cariño bueno, Por eso no debes En confianza, Otoño e Mi último amor, e as guarachas Contentura e Mi muñeco.

Babalu, Babalu

Babalu, ayé

Babalu ayé.

 

Ta empesando el velorio

¿Qué le hace no Babalu?

Dame diecisiete velas

Pa ponerle en cruz,

Dame un cabo de tabaco Mayenye

Y un jarrito de agua ardiente,

Dame un poco de dinero Mayenie

Pa que me de la suerte.

 

Quiero pedir

Que mi negra me quiera

Que tenga dinero

¡Y que no se muera! ¡ Ay!

Yo te quiero pedir

Babalu

Una negra muy santa

Como tú

Que no tenga otro negro

 

Pa que no se fuera

Babalu ayé

Babalu ayé

Babalu ayé.

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: 20^th 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)