A WHOLE NEW WORLD

PEABO BRYSON & REGINE BELLE
SONGWRITERS: ALAN MENKEN & TIM RICE.
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: THE MUSIC BEHIND THE MAGIC
LABEL: WALT DISNEY RECORDS
GENRE: POP
YEAR: 1994
 
       "A Whole New World" is a song from Disney's 1992 animated feature film Aladdin, with music by Alan Menken and lyrics by Tim Rice. A duet originally recorded by singers Brad Kane and Lea Salonga in their respective roles as the singing voices of the main characters Aladdin and Jasmine, the ballad serves as both the film's love and theme song. Lyrically, "A Whole New World" describes Aladdin showing the confined princess a life of freedom and the pair's acknowledgment of their love for each other while riding on a magic carpet. The song garnered na Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 65th Academy Awards. "A Whole New World" also won the Grammy Award for Song of the Year at the 36th Annual Grammy Awards, the first and so far only Disney song to win in the category for the version sung by Peabo Bryson and Regina Belle. Zayn Malik and Zhavia Ward did their version of the song for the Aladdin (2019 film).
         The Music Behind the Magic: The Musical Artistry of Alan Menken, Howard Ashman & Tim Rice is a four-disc box set highlighting the creative evolution behind the music of Disney's The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin. Released on November 22, 1994 on Walt Disney Records, the set includes work tape recordings, demos, previously released final recordings, and unreleased master recordings of songs and score cues.

(Peabo Bryson)
I can show you the world
Shining, shimmering, splendid
Tell me, princess, now when did
You last let your heart decide?
 
I can open your eyes
Take you wonder by wonder
Over, sideways and under
On a magic carpet ride
 
A whole new world
A new fantastic point of view
No one to tell us no
Or where to go
Or say we're only dreaming
 
(Regina Belle)
A whole new world
A dazzling place I never knew
But when I'm way up here
It's crystal clear
That now I'm in a whole new world with you
 
(Regina Belle)
Unbelievable sights
Indescribable feeling
Soaring, tumbling, freewheeling
Through an endless diamond sky
A whole new world
 
(Peabo Bryson)
Don't you dare close your eyes
 
(Regina Belle)
A hundred thousand things to see
 
(Peabo Bryson)
Hold your breath, it gets better
 
(Regina Belle)
I'm like a shooting star
I've come so far
I can't go back to where I used to be
 
(Peabo Bryson)
A whole new world
With new horizons to pursue
 
(Both)
I'll chase them anywhere
There's time to spare
 
(Peabo Bryson)
Let me share this whole new world with you
 
(Regina Belle)
A whole new world
(Peabo Bryson)
A whole new world
A new fantastic point of view
 
(Both)
No one to tell us no, Or where to go
 
(Regina Belle)
Or say we're only dreaming
 
(Peabo Bryson)
A whole new world
 
(Regina Belle)
Every turn a surprise
 
(Peabo Bryson)
 With new horizons to pursue
 
(Regina Belle)
Every moment red letter
 
(Both)
I'll chase them anywhere there's time to spare
 
(Regina Belle)
Anywhere
 
(Peabo Bryson)
There's time to spare
 
(Regina Belle)
Let me share
 
(Peabo Bryson)
this whole new world with you, you
 
(Regina Belle)
A whole new world.
 
(Peabo Bryson)
A whole new world
 
(Regina Belle)
That's where we'll be
 
(Peabo Bryson)
Where we will be
 
(Regina Belle)
A thrilling chase
 
(Peabo Bryson)
A wondrous place
 
(Both)
For you and me.

Somewhere out there

James ingram & linda ronstadt
SONGWRITERs: BARRY MANN; CYNTHIA WEIL; JAMES HORNER & STEVE EARLE
COUNTRY: u. s. a.
ALBUM: an American tail: music from the motion picture sountrack
LABEL: mca records
GENRE: SOUL
YEAR: 1986
 
          James Edward Ingram (February 16, 1952 – January 29, 2019) was an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and instrumentalist. He was a two-time Grammy Award-winner and a two-time Academy Award nominee for Best Original Song. After beginning his career in 1973, Ingram charted eight Top 40 hits on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart from the early 1980s until the early 1990s, as well as thirteen top 40 hits on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. In addition, he charted 20 hits on the Adult Contemporary chart (including two number-ones). He had two number-one singles on the Hot 100: the first, a duet with fellow R&B artist Patti Austin, 1982's "Baby, Come to Me" topped the U.S. pop chart in 1983; "I Don't Have the Heart", which became his second number-one in 1990 was his only number-one as a solo artist.
          In between these hits, he also recorded the song "Somewhere Out There" with fellow recording artist Linda Ronstadt for the animated film An American Tail. The song and the music video both became gigantic hits. Ingram co-wrote "The Day I Fall in Love", from the motion Picture Beethoven's 2nd (1993), and singer Patty Smyth's "Look What Love Has Done", from the motion picture Junior (1994), which earned him nominations for Best Original Song from the Oscars, Golden Globes, and Grammy Awards in 1994 and 1995.
          Linda Maria Ronstadt (born July 15, 1946) is a retired American singer who performed and recorded in diverse genres including rock, country, light opera, and Latin. She has earned 10 Grammy Awards, three American Music Awards, two Academy of Country Music awards, an Emmy Award, and an ALMA Award. Many of her albums have been certified gold, platinum or multiplatinum in the United States and internationally. She has also earned nominations for a Tony Award and a Golden Globe award. She was awarded the Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award by the Latin Recording Academy in 2011 and also awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award by the Recording Academy in 2016. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April 2014. On July 28, 2014, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts and Humanities. In 2019, she received a star jointly with Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for their work as the group Trio. Ronstadt was among five honorees who received the 2019 Kennedy Center Honors for lifetime artistic achievements.
            Ronstadt has released 24 studio albums and 15 compilation or greatest hits albums. She charted 38 US Billboard Hot 100 singles. Twenty-one of those singles reached the top 40, ten reached the top 10, and one reached number one ("You're No Good"). Her success however did not translate across the Atlantic to the UK. Although Ronstadt's duets, "Somewhere Out There" with James Ingram and "Don't Know Much" with Aaron Neville, peaked at numbers 8 and 2 respectively in 1987 and 1989, the single "Blue Bayou" was her only solo single to reach the UK Top 40. She has charted 36 albums, ten top-10 albums, and three number 1 albums on the US Billboard Pop Album Chart.
       Ronstadt has collaborated with artists in diverse genres, including Bette Midler, Billy Eckstine, Frank Zappa, Carla Bley (Escalator Over the Hill), Rosemary Clooney, Flaco Jiménez, Philip Glass, Warren Zevon, Emmylou Harris, Gram Parsons, Dolly Parton, Neil Young, Paul Simon, Earl Scruggs, Johnny Cash, and Nelson Riddle. She has lent her voice to over 120 albums and has sold more than 100 million records, making her one of the world's best-selling artists of all time. Christopher Loudon, of Jazz Times, wrote in 2004 that Ronstadt is "blessed with arguably the most sterling set of pipes of her generation."
           Ronstadt reduced her activity after 2000 when she felt her singing voice deteriorating, releasing her last full-length album in 2004 and performing her last live concert in 2009. She announced her retirement in 2011 and revealed shortly afterwards that she is no longer able to sing as a result of a degenerative condition later determined to be progressive supranuclear palsy. Since then, Ronstadt has continued to make public appearances, going on a number of public speaking tours in the 2010s. She published an autobiography, Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir, in September 2013. A documentary based on her memoirs, Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice, was released in 2019.
          "Somewhere Out There" is a song released by MCA Records and recorded by American singers Linda Ronstadt and James Ingram for the soundtrack of the animated film An American Tail (1986). The song was written by James Horner, Barry Mann, and Cynthia Weil, and produced by Peter Asher and Steve Tyrell. It reached number eight in the United Kingdom, number six in Ireland, and number two in both the United States and Canada.

Somewhere out there
Beneath the pale moonlight
Someone's thinking of me
And loving me tonight
 
Somewhere out there
Somone's saying a prayer
That we'll find one another
In that big somewhere out there
 
And even though I know how very far apart we are
It helps to think we might be wishing on the same bright star
And when the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby
It helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky.
 
Somewhere out there
If love can see us through
Then we'll be together
Somewhere out there
Out where dreams come true.

SLIP, SLIDIN' AWAY

PAUL SIMON
SONGWRITER: PAUL SIMON
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS
GENRE: SOFT ROCK
YEAR: 1975
 
           Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941) is an American musician, singer, songwriter and actor. Simon's musical career has spanned over six decades. He reached fame and commercial success as half of the duo Simon & Garfunkel, formed in 1956 with Art Garfunkel. Simon wrote nearly all of their songs, including US number-one singles "The Sound of Silence", "Mrs. Robinson", and "Bridge over Troubled Water".
             After Simon & Garfunkel split up in 1970, at the height of their popularity, Simon began a successful solo career. He recorded three acclaimed albums over the following five years. In 1986, following a career slump, he released Graceland, an album inspired by South African township music, which sold 14 million copies worldwide and remains his most popular solo work. Simon also wrote and starred in the film One-Trick Pony (1980) and co-wrote the Broadway musical The Capeman (1998) with the poet Derek Walcott. On June 3, 2016, Simon released his 13th solo album, Stranger to Stranger, which debuted at number one on the Billboard Album Chart and the UK Albums Chart.
          Simon has earned sixteen Grammy Awards for his solo and collaborative work, including three for Album of the Year (Bridge Over Troubled Water, Still Crazy After All These Years, and Graceland), and a Lifetime Achievement Award. He is a two-time inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: first in 1990 as a member of Simon & Garfunkel and again in 2001 for his solo career. In 2006 he was selected as one of the "100 People Who Shaped the World" by Time. In 2011, Rolling Stone named Simon one of the 100 greatest guitarists, and in 2015 he was ranked eighth in their list of the 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time. Simon was the first recipient of the Library of Congress's Gershwin Prize for Popular Song in 2007.
           Still Crazy After All These Years is the fourth solo studio album by Paul Simon. Recorded and released in 1975, the album produced four U.S. Top 40 hits: "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" (#1), "Gone at Last" (#23), "My Little Town" (#9, credited to Simon & Garfunkel), and the title track (#40). It won two Grammy Awards for Album of the Year and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance in 1976.
         "My Little Town" reunited Simon with former partner Art Garfunkel for the first time since 1970, while "Gone at Last" was a duet between Simon and Phoebe Snow. Several tracks featured members of the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section as a backing band.
           The title track has been recorded by Rosemary Clooney (on her 1993 album Still on the Road), Ray Charles (on his 1993 album My World), Karen Carpenter (on her self-titled solo album released posthumously in 1996), and Willie Nelson (on the soundtrack of the 2000 motion picture Space Cowboys).

Slip slidin' away
Slip slidin' away
You know the nearer your destination
The more you're slip slidin' away
I know a man
He came from my home town
He wore his passion for his woman
Like a thorny crown
He said delores
I live in fear
My love for you's so overpowering
I'm afraid that I will disappear
 
Slip slidin' away
Slip slidin' away
You know the nearer your destination
The more you're slip slidin' away
 
I know a woman
Became a wife
These are the very words she uses
To describe her life
She said a good day
Ain't got no rain
She said a bad day's when I lie in bed
And think of things that might have been
 
Slip slidin' away
Slip slidin' away
You know the nearer your destination
The more you're slip slidin' away
 
And I know a fa-ther
Who had a son
He longed to tell him all the reasons
For the things he'd done
He came a long way
Just to explain
He kissed his boy as he lay sleeping
Then he turned around and headed home again
 
Slip slidin' away
Slip slidin' away
You know the nearer your destination
The more you're slip slidin' away
 
God only knows
God makes his plan
The information's unavailable
To the mortal man
We work our jobs
Collect our pay
Believe we're gliding down the highway
When in fact we're slip slidin' away
 
Slip slidin' away
Slip slidin' away
You know the nearer your destination
The more you're slip slidin' away
 
Slip slidin' away
You know the nearer your destination
The more you're slip slidin' away
Mmm...

ZAMBA DEL CARBONERO

LOS FRONTERIZOS
COMPOSITOR: MANUEL JOSÉ CASTILLA
PAIS: ARGENTINA
ÁLBUM: POR TANTO AMOR
DISCOGRÁFICA: M & M
GÉNERO: FOLK
AÑO: 1998
 
      Los Fronterizos es un conjunto folclórico argentino que se formó en la ciudad de Salta (en el norte argentino) en 1953.
          La primera formación era un trío, integrado por: Gerardo López ―quien sería llamado «la voz de Los Fronterizos»―, Carlos Barbarán y Emilio Solá. En 1954, Solá se retiró y fue reemplazado por Cacho Valdez.
       Valdez fue reemplazado por Eduardo Madeo, quien quedaría como definitivo. Casi en simultáneo se sumó el guitarrista Juan Carlos Moreno, el tercer «histórico» que ―junto a López, Madeo y Barbarán― conformó el cuarteto que grabaría los primeros simples.
     EN 1956, Barbarán fue reemplazado por el cantante, compositor y arreglador César Isella. Sus extraordinarias voces y los novedosos arreglos musicales fueron muy admirados y sus discos alcanzaron altos niveles de ventas.
         Tras unos primeros años de actuaciones locales, Isella, López, Madeo y Moreno viajaron a Buenos Aires para participar en programas de radio.
         EN 1964 les llegó la consagración internacional, tras la grabación de la Misa criolla de Ariel Ramírez. El gran éxito cosechado por esta obra les llevó a actuar en los más importantes auditorios del mundo. El conjunto fue consolidándose y haciéndose conocido entre el gran público, con la colaboración del guitarrista y cantautor Eduardo Falú, del pianista y compositor folclórico Ariel Ramírez y del percusionista Domingo Cura.
         En esos años se desarrolló en la música popular argentina el movimiento de la Nueva Canción, con fuerte raigambre popular y política. Dentro del grupo se generaron tensiones debido a las diferentes ideologías políticas de sus miembros. Esto llevó en 1966 al alejamiento de César Isella, quien comenzó una exitosa carrera solista, sustituido por Eduardo Yayo Quesada (1941-2012). El cuarteto siguió activo por todo el mundo y participó en viajes y presentaciones, en especial por Latinoamérica y Europa. Presentaron su célebre Misa Criolla en Nueva York, desde Manhattan hasta la Estatua de la Libertad, se mostraban con característicos trajes de gauchos. Durante ese recorrido fueron entrevistados para el programa conducido por Pipo Mancera, Sábados circulares.(…)
          En 2009, Nacho Paz abandonó el grupo y fue reemplazado por Sergio Isella (sobrino de César Isella) y así continuaron las giras por Argentina y Latinoamérica.
             En 2011, Sergio Isella abandonó el conjunto y se integró a Las Voces de Gerardo López (fallecido en 2004). Su lugar fue ocupado por José Muñoz, de Los Altamirano. Durante todo ese año Los Fronterizos viajaron por el sur de la Argentina.
      En noviembre de 2015 falleció Juan Cruz, propietario hasta entonces del nombre "Los Fronterizos". Su puesto en el conjunto fue ocupado por Nestor De Volder. También reingresó en el grupo Nacho Paz, puesto que José Muñoz tuvo que ocupar el puesto de David Apud. En 2017, salió el más reciente trabajo discográfico, hecho con Garra Records.

Yo soy ese carbonero
Yo soy ese hombre, señor
Que va quemando la leña
Junto con su corazón
 
Yo me desvelo en el monte
Solo, cuidando el carbón
La noche me da la Luna
Mi pena la entrego yo
 
Carbonero
Peón del algarrobal
La noche se me hace día
Cuando llega el carnaval
 
A veces miro mis manos
Pero no las veo, señor
Las va tapando, de noche
Todo el polvo del carbón
 
Tapo, la boca del horno
Con tierra negra y sudor
Y el humo lleva, en el viento
Quemando mi corazón
Carbonero.