ALL THIS TIME

TIFFANY

SONGWRITERS: Steve McClintock & Tim James

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: HOLD AN OLD FRIEND’S HAND

LABEL: MCA RECORDS

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 1988

 

       Tiffany Renee Darwish (born October 2, 1971), known professionally as Tiffany, is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and former teen icon. Her 1987 cover of the Tommy James and the Shondells song "I Think We're Alone Now" spent two weeks at number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and was her biggest hit. It was released as the second single from her debut álbum Tiffany.

           Thanks to an original mall tour, "The Beautiful You: Celebrating The Good Life Shopping Mall Tour '87", Tiffany found commercial success; both the single and the album peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and Billboard 200 charts, respectively. The singles "Could've Been" and "I Saw Him Standing There", a cover version of The Beatles' "I Saw Her Standing There", followed soon after, with the former also claiming the No. 1 position on the Hot 100.

          Although Tiffany's second album, Hold an Old Friend's Hand, featured a top-10 single, charted in the upper register of the Billboard 200 in 1988, and ultimately became platinum-selling, it failed to replicate the success of her debut. The 1990s saw two additional releases from Tiffany, 1990's New Inside and the Asia-exclusive Dreams Never Die, both of which failed to rekindle significant interest. Tiffany returned in 2000 with her first album in six years, The Color of Silence. Although the album received some minor critical success, it also failed to achieve any significant standing. Since then, Tiffany has recorded four additional full-length albums, including an album of 1980s cover songs, and she continues to tour.

           Outside of music, Tiffany posed nude in Playboy and has guest-starred on several reality television shows, including Celebrity Fit Club, Australia's version of I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here and Hulk Hogan's Celebrity Championship Wrestling, and has acted in a handful of horror and science fiction films, including Necrosis, Mega Piranha, and Mega Python vs. Gatoroid, the latter co-starring fellow 1980s teen idol and musical contemporary, Debbie Gibson.

           "All This Time" is the first single from Tiffany's second album, Hold an Old Friend's Hand. The single was Tiffany's fourth and last top-ten hit in the United States.

All this time
I knew someday you'd need to find
Something that you left behind
Something I can´t give you
 
All these tears
And like alight love disappears
But hearts are good for souvenirs
And memories are forever
 
All this time
All in all I've no regrets
The sun still shines the sun still sets
The heart forgives the heart forgets
But what will I do now with all this time
 
One more kiss
Even though it's come to this
I´ll close my eyes and make a wish
Hoping you remember
 
All this time
All in all I've no regrets
The sun still shines the sun still sets
The heart forgives the heart forgets
But what will I do now with all this time
 
Say goodbye
Apart we'll make another try
But don't be sorry if you cry
I'll be crying too
 
All this time
All in all I've no regrets
The sun still shines the sun still sets
The heart forgives the heart forgets
But what will I do now with all this time..

IMAGINATION

ELLA FITZGERALD

SONGWRITERS: JAMES VAN HEUSEN & JOHNNY BURKE

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: IMAGINATION 

LABEL: DECCA RECORDS

GENRE: JAZZ

YEAR: 1940

 

             Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996) was an American jazz singer, sometimes referred to as the First Lady of Song, Queen of Jazz, and Lady Ella. She was noted for her purity of tone, impeccable diction, phrasing, timing, intonation, and a "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing.

             After a tumultuous adolescence, Fitzgerald found stability in musical success with the Chick Webb Orchestra, performing across the country but most often associated with the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem. Her rendition of the nursery rhyme "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" helped boost both her and Webb to national fame. After taking over the band when Webb died, Fitzgerald left it behind in 1942 to start her solo career.

               Her manager was Moe Gale, co-founder of the Savoy, until she turned the rest of her career over to Norman Granz, who founded Verve Records to produce new records by Fitzgerald. With Verve she recorded some of her more widely noted works, particularly her interpretations of the Great American Songbook.

            While Fitzgerald appeared in movies and as a guest on popular television shows in the second half of the twentieth century, her musical collaborations with Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and The Ink Spots were some of her most notable acts outside of her solo career. These partnerships produced some of her best-known songs such as "Dream a Little Dream of Me", "Cheek to Cheek", "Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall", and "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)".

               In 1993, after a career of nearly 60 years, she gave her last public performance. Three years later, she died at the age of 79 after years of declining health. Her accolades included fourteen Grammy Awards, the National Medal of Arts, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

          Between 1935 and 1955 Ella Fitzgerald was signed to Decca Records. Her early recordings as a featured vocalist were frequently uncredited. Her first credited single was 78 RPM recording "I'll Chase the Blues Away" with the Chick Webb Orchestra. Fitzgerald continued recording with Webb until his death in 1939, after which the group was renamed Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra. With the introduction of 10" and 12" Long-Playing records in the late 1940s, Decca released several original albums of Fitzgerald's music and reissued many of her previous single-only releases. From 1935 to the late 1940s Decca issued Ella Fitzgerald's recordings on 78rpm singles and album collections, in book form, of four singles that included eight tracks. These recordings have been re-issued on a series of 15 compact disc by the French record label Classics Records between 1992 and 2008.

        In 1956 Ella Fitzgerald signed with Verve Records, the Norman Granz record label. Fitzgerald recorded with Verve until the mid-1960s. Included in this era were a series of eight Song Book albums, with interpretations of the greater part of the Great American Songbook, with songs from the pens of Cole Porter (1956), Rodgers & Hart (1956), Duke Ellington (1957), Irving Berlin (1958), George and Ira Gershwin (1959), Harold Arlen (1961), Jerome Kern (1963) and Johnny Mercer (1964). Ella Fitzgerald released many stand alone singles throughout her Verve years. These were re-issued in 2003 on the 2-CD set, Jukebox Ella: The Complete Verve Singles, Vol. 1.

               The late 1960s and early 1970s saw Fitzgerald release albums on several major record labels, including three albums on Capitol Records and two on the Reprise Records label. In 1972 Norman Granz formed Pablo Records, the label continued to release Ella Fitzgerald's albums up until her last recorded album All That Jazz in 1989.

       In recent years the Ella Fitzgerald back catalogue has continued to grow, this includes complete albums of previously unreleased live material and alternative recordings from her studio sessions.

Imagination is funny, it makes a cloudy day Sunny

Makes a bee think of honey just as I think of you

 

Imagination is crazy, your whole perspective gets hazy

Starts you asking a daisy: What to do, what to do?

 

Have you ever felt a gentle touch and then a kiss

And then and then, find it's only your imagination again?

Oh, well

 

Imagination is silly, you go around willy-nilly

For example I go around wanting you

And yet I can't imagine that you want me, too.

A SONG FOR YOU

RAY CHARLES

SONGWRITER: LEON RUSSELL

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: A SONG FOR YOU

LABEL: WARNER BROS RECORDS

GENRE: SOUL

YEAR: 1993

 

          Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004) was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, and composer. Among friends and fellow musicians he preferred being called "Brother Ray." He was often referred to as "The Genius." Charles was blinded during childhood due to glaucoma.

          Charles pioneered the soul music genre during the 1950s by combining blues, jazz, rhythm and blues, and gospel styles into the music he recorded for Atlantic. He contributed to the integration of country music, rhythm and blues, and pop music during the 1960s with his crossover success on ABC Records, notably with his two Modern Sounds albums. While he was with ABC, Charles became one of the first Black musicians to be granted artistic control by a mainstream record company.

          Charles' 1960 hit "Georgia On My Mind" was the first of his three career No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100. His 1962 album Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music became his first album to top the Billboard 200. Charles had multiple singles reach the Top 40 on various Billboard charts: 44 on the US R&B singles chart, 11 on the Hot 100 singles chart, 2 on the Hot Country singles charts.

     Charles cited Nat King Cole as a primary influence, but his music was also influenced by Louis Jordan and Charles Brown. He had a lifelong friendship and occasional partnership with Quincy Jones. Frank Sinatra called Ray Charles "the only true genius in show business," although Charles downplayed this notion. Billy Joel said, "This may sound like sacrilege, but I think Ray Charles was more important than Elvis Presley".

           For his musical contributions, Charles received the Kennedy Center Honors, the National Medal of Arts, and the Polar Music Prize. He won 17 Grammy Awards, including 5 posthumously. Charles was honored with the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1987, and 10 of his recordings have been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. Rolling Stone ranked Charles No. 10 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time, and No. 2 on their list of the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time.

I've been so many places in my life and time

I've sung a lot of songs, I've made some bad rhyme

I've acted out my life in stages

With ten thousand people watching

But we're alone now and I'm singin' this song for you

 

I know your image of me is what I hope to be, baby

I've treated you unkindly but girl can't you see

There's no one more important to me

So darling can't you please see through me

'cause we're alone now and I'm singin' my song for you

 

You taught me precious secrets of the truth, withholdin'nothin'

You came out in front and I was hiding

But now I'm so much better so if my words don't come together

Listen to the melody cause my love's in there hiding

 

I love you in a place where there's no space or time

I love you for my life, 'cause you're a friend of mine

And when my life is over, remember when we were together

We were alone and I was singin' my song for you

 

I love you in a place where there's no space or time

I've loved you for my life, yes, you're a friend of mine

And when my life is over, remember when we were together

We were alone and I was singin' my song for you, yes

We were alone and I was singin' this song for you, baby

We were alone and I was singin' my song,

Singin' my song, singin' my song, singin' my song

Singin' my song.

T

MUSICA PARA EL ALMA

OSO STUDIOS & CRONO MEDIA

           Música para el alma está integrado por músicos de orquestas sinfónicas y coros de diferentes países. Su objetivo es acercar su música a personas que pasen por difíciles situaciones de vida, ya sea en hospitales, escuelas de educación especial, geriátricos y otras instituciones de bien público, para acompañar a los pacientes y profesionales que están a su cuidado.

            HISTÓRIA: El proyecto nació a iniciativa de María Eugenia Rubio, una joven y talentosa flautista de la Orquesta Nacional de Música Argentina Juan de Dios Filiberto, quién protagonizó una larga lucha contra una enfermedad.

           Sus primeras presentaciones se realizaron en Buenos Aires en 2012 y se fue extendiendo a otras ciudades de Argentina. Actualmente existen músicos nucleados en Música para el alma em Uruguay, Chile, Paraguay, Italia e Israel.

               Música para el alma ha realizado centenares de conciertos en instituciones de varios países. Entre otras se cuenta el Hospital Garrahan, en donde se presentó en varias oportunidades. En una de ellas lo hizo invitado por Patch Adams y de Niños Pedro de Elizalde, de Buenos Aires; el Complejo Penitenciario de Mujeres, Ezeiza, Prov. de Buenos Aires, Argentina; hospitales neuropsiquiátricos de Buenos Aires, como el Hospital Braulio Aurelio Moyano para mujeres; el Hospital Municipal José Tiburcio Borda y el Tobar García.

            En Uruguay se presentó en el hospital Hospital Pereira Rossell y en el Geriátrico Luis Piñeyro del Campo, de Montevideo. En Chile en el Hospital de Niños L. C. Mackenna.

         En Paraguay, en el Instituto de Previsión Social (Paraguay) (IPS), de Asunción. En Nápoles, Italia, estuvieron en el Hospital de pediatría oncológica Pausilipon.

         INTEGRANTES: Los integrantes de Música para el Alma pertenecen a varias orquestas profesionales de la Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Paraguay, Italia e Israel.

Argentina

Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional (Argentina)

Orquesta Filarmónica del Teatro Colón

Orquesta Estable del Teatro Colón

Coro Estable del Teatro Colón

Orquesta Nacional de Música Argentina Juan de Dios Filiberto

Orquesta del Tango de Buenos Aires

Camerata Bariloche

Orquestas Sinfónicas de Córdoba, Bahía Blanca, Neuquén, Salta.

Orquestas Filarmónicas de Mendoza, Rosario

Uruguay

Orquesta Filarmónica de Montevideo

Orquesta Sinfónica del SODRE

Paraguay

Chile

Italia

Israel