AMARILLO BY MORNING

GEORGE STRAIT

SONGWRITERS: PAUL FRASER & TERRY STAFFORD

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: STRAIT FROM THE HEART

LABEL: MCA

GENRE: COUNTRY

YEAR: 1982

 

            George Harvey Strait Sr. (born May 18, 1952) is an American country music singer, songwriter, actor, and music producer. George Strait is known as the "King of Country" and is considered one of the most influential and popular recording artists of all time. He is known for his neotraditionalist country style, cowboy look, and being one of the first and most prominent country artists to bring country music back to its roots and away from the pop country era in the 1980s.

          Strait's success began when his first single "Unwound" was a hit in 1981. During the 1980s, seven of his albums reached number one on the country charts. In the 2000s, Strait was named Artist of the Decade by the Academy of Country Music, was elected into the Country Music Hall of Fame, and won his first Grammy award for the album Troubadour. Strait was named CMA Entertainer of the Year in 1989, 1990 and 2013, and ACM Entertainer of the Year in 1990 and 2014. He has been nominated for more CMA and ACM awards and has more wins in both categories than any other artist.

         By 2009, he broke Conway Twitty's previous record for the most number-one hits on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart when his 44 number one singles surpassed Twitty's 40. Counting all music charts, Strait has amassed a total of 60 number-one hits, breaking a record also previously set by Twitty, giving him more number one songs than any other artist in any genre of music.

         Strait is also known for his touring career when he designed a 360-degree configuration and introduced festival style tours. For example, the Strait Tours earned $99 million in three years. His concert at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, in June 2014 drew 104,793 people, marking a new record for largest indoor concert in North America.

           Strait has sold more than 100 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. His certifications from the RIAA include 13 multi-platinum, 33 platinum, and 38 gold albums. His best-selling album is Pure Country (1992), which sold 6 million (6×platinum). His highest certified album is Strait Out of the Box (1995), which sold 2 million copies (8× Platinum due to being a box set with four CDs). According to the RIAA, Strait is the 12th best-selling album recording artist in the United States overall.

        Strait from the Heart is the second studio album by American country music artist George Strait, released on June 3, 1982 by MCA Records. The album includes Strait's first Nº. 1 single, "Fool Hearted Memory", as well as follow-up singles "Marina del Rey", "Amarillo by Morning" and "A Fire I Can't Put Out", reaching No. 6, No. 4, and No. 1 respectively on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart. The album peaked at Nº. 18 on the US Billboard Top Country Albums chart. Strait from the Heart is certified platinum by the RIAA.

           There were three cover songs on the album: "Honky Tonk Crazy", which had been released a couple months earlier in 1982 by the duo of Gary Stewart and Dean Dillon on their Brotherly Love album; 2) the Guy Clark song, "Heartbroke", which was first recorded by Rodney Crowell on his 1980 album, But What Will the Neighbors Think; and 3) "Amarillo by Morning" which was first recorded by Terry Stafford in 1973. "The Only Thing I Have Left" was later recorded by Tim McGraw for his 1993 debut album Tim McGraw.

Amarillo by morning

Up from San Antone

Everything that I've got

Is just what I've got on

When that sun is high

In that Texas sky

I'll be bucking it to county fair

Amarillo by morning

Amarillo I'll be there

 

They took my saddle in Houston

Broke my leg in Sante Fe

Lost my wife and a girlfriend

Somewhere along the way

Well I'll be looking for eight

When they pull that gate

And I'm hoping that

Judge ain't blind

Amarillo by morning

Amarillo's on my mind

 

Amarillo by morning

Up from San Antone

Everything that I've got

Is just what I've got on

I ain't got a dime

But what I've got is mine

I ain't rich

But Lord I'm free

Amarillo by morning

Amarillo's where I'll be

 

Amarillo by morning

Amarillo's where I'll be. 

SKATING AWAY ON THE THIN ICE OF A NEW DAY

JETHRO TULL

SONGWRITER: IAN ANDERSON

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: WAR CHILD

LABEL: CHRYSALIS RECORDS

GENRE: PROGRESSIVE ROCK

YEAR: 1974

 

             Jethro Tull are a British rock band formed in Blackpool, Lancashire in 1967. Initially playing blues rock and jazz fusion, the band later developed their sound to incorporate elements of hard rock and folk to forge a progressive rock signature. The band is led by vocalist/flautist/guitarist Ian Anderson, and has featured a revolving door of lineups through the years including significant members such as longtime guitarist Martin Barre, keyboardists John Evans, Dee Palmer and Peter-John Vettese, drummers Clive Bunker, Barrie "Barriemore" Barlow and Doane Perry, and bassists Glenn Cornick, Jeffrey Hammond, John Glascock, and Dave Pegg.

       After achieving moderate recognition performing in the London club scene, the band released their debut álbum This Was in 1968. After a lineup change which saw original guitarist Mick Abrahams replaced by Martin Barre, the band released the folk-tinged blues album Stand Up (1969). Stand Up saw the band achieve their first commercial success, with the album reaching No. 1 in the UK, followed by regular tours of the UK and the US. Their musical style shifted in the direction of progressive rock with the albums Aqualung (1971), Thick as a Brick (1972) and A Passion Play (1973), and shifted again to folk rock with Songs from the Wood (1977), Heavy Horses (1978) and Stormwatch (1979). In the early 1980s the band underwent a major lineup change and shifted towards electronic rock, with the albums A (1980), The Broadsword and the Beast (1982) and Under Wraps (1984). The band won their sole Grammy Award for the 1987 album Crest of a Knave, which saw the band return to a hard rock style. Jethro Tull have sold an estimated 60 million albums worldwide, with 11 gold and five platinum albums among them. They have been described by Rolling Stone as "one of the most commercially successful and eccentric progressive rock bands."

         The last works as a group to contain new material were released in 2003, though the band continued to tour until 2011. Both Anderson and Barre have continued to record and tour as solo artists, with Anderson saying in 2014 that Jethro Tull "came more or less to an end." However in 2017 Anderson announced plans for a tour to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of This Was. The current group—now billed as "Ian Anderson and the Jethro Tull band"—includes musicians who have been members of Anderson's solo band since 2012.

           War Child is the seventh studio album by Jethro Tull, released in October 1974. It was released almost a year and a half after the release of A Passion Play. The turmoil over criticism of the previous album surrounded the production of War Child, which obliged the band to do press conferences and explain their plans for the future.

                                        
Meanwhile back in the year One — when you belonged to no-one —
You didn't stand a chance son, if your pants were undone
'Cause you were bred for humanity and sold to society
One day you'll wake up in the Present Day —
A million generations removed from expectations
Of being who you really want to be
 
Skating Away
Skating away
Skating away on the thin ice of the New Day
 
So as you push off from the shore
Won't you turn your head once more and make your peace with everyone?
For those who choose to stay
Will live just one more day
To do the things they should have done
And as you cross the wilderness, spinning in your emptiness
You feel you have to pray
Looking for a sign
That the Universal Mind (!) has written you into the Passion Play
 
Skating away on the thin ice of the New Day
And as you cross the circle line, the ice-wall creaks behind
You're a rabbit on the run
And the silver splinters fly in the corner of your eye
Shining in the setting sun
Well, do you ever get the feeling that the story's
Too damn real and in the present tense?
Or that everybody's on the stage, and it seems like
 
You're the only person sitting in the audience?
Skating away on the thin ice of the New Day.

DO CHOUPAL ATÉ A LAPA

ZECA AFONSO

COMPOSITOR: ZECA AFONSO

PAÍS: PORTUGAL

ÁLBUM: AO VIVO NO COLISEU

GRAVADORA: COLISEU DE LISBOA

GÊNERO: FADO

ANO: 1983

 

créditos do álbum mas participa no Natal dos Simples.

        José Manuel Cerqueira Afonso dos Santos (Aveiro, 2 de agosto de 1929 — Setúbal, 23 de fevereiro de 1987), foi um cantor e compositor português. É também conhecido pelo diminutivo familiar de Zeca Afonso, apesar de nunca ter utilizado este nome artístico.

             Ao Vivo no Coliseu é um álbum-duplo gravado ao vivo no Coliseu de Lisboa a 29 de Janeiro de 1983, da autoria de José Afonso.

         Com José Afonso estiveram no palco Octávio Sérgio, António Sérgio, Lopes de Almeida, Durval Moreirinhas, Rui Pato, Fausto, Júlio Pereira, Guilherme Inês, Rui Castro, Rui Júnior, Sérgio Mestre e Janita Salomé. Francisco Fanhais não aparece nos créditos do álbum mas participa no Natal dos Simples.

Do Choupal até à Lapa

Foi Coimbra, aos seus amores

A sombra da minha capa

Deu no chão, e abriu em flores

 

Oh Coimbra do Mondego

E dos amores que eu lá tive

Quem te não viu, anda cego

Quem te não ama, não vive.

YA VIENE AMANECIENDO

ANTONIO AGUILAR

COMPOSITOR: BENJAMIN SANCHEZ MOTA

PAIS: MÉXICO

ÁLBUM: YA VIENE AMANECIENDO

DISCOGRÁFICA: MUSART RECORDS

GÉNERO: NORTEÑO/RANCHERA

AÑO: 1977

 

           José Pascual Antonio Aguilar Márquez Barraza (Villanueva, Zacatecas, 17 de mayo de 1919-Ciudad de México, 19 de junio de 2007), conocido como Antonio Aguilar, fue un cantante, actor, productor, guionista y cineasta mexicano perteneciente a la Época de Oro del Cine Mexicano. Su discografía ha sobrepasado los 160 álbumes con ventas de más de 25 millones de copias. Al despuntar la década de los 50 debutó como actor en el cine, al tiempo que se inició como cantante, faceta de su carrera que se extiende hasta los primeros años de la década de 2000. Es considerado una leyenda de la música popular mexicana. Actuó en 167 películas y recorrió el mundo en diversas giras junto a su esposa, la también cantante y atriz Flor Silvestre, y sus hijos Antonio Aguilar, hijo y Pepe Aguilar. Es reconocido como la persona que dio un gran impulso al deporte y talento mexicano de la charrería a nivel nacional como internacional, y es por esto que lo conocen con el apodo de «El Charro de México». Por ser de los primeros pioneros intérpretes de la Música Norteña, de los más vendidos en la historia del género y por dar a conocer el género a nivel mundial, también era conocido cariñosamente como "Tony Aguilar", y llegó a vender cerca de 25 millones de copias en el mundo, siendo con ello de los hispanos cantantes más vendidos de todos los tiempos.

 

Ya viene amaneciendo

la luz ya nos alumbra,

para devisaaaaar

a donde está mi amada.

 

Levantate... no seas ingrata,

levantete... mira el que te ama,

acostadito en tu cama,

y yo en la calle...desvelandome por tu amor.

 

Ya viene amaneciendo

y sigo con mi canto,

yo quiero encontrar

a la que quiero tanto.

 

Comprendeme, no seas malita

comprendeme, si estas solita,

mira que yo te suspiro,

y yo te miro, extrañandote corazón.