HO CAPITO CHE TI AMO

LUIGI TENCO
COMPOSITORE: LUIGI TENCO
PAESE: ITALIA
ALBUM: HO CAPITO CHE TE AMO - VOL.1
ETICHETTA: JOKER LA CANZONE
GENERE: BALLATA
ANNO: 1982
 
         Luigi Tenco (21 marzo 1938 - 27 gennaio 1967) è stato un cantautore italiano. Dopo il suo presunto suicidio, è diventato un'icona di amore e disperazione. Le vere cause della sua morte non sono ancora state concordate.
          enco nasce a Cassine (provincia di Alessandria) nel 1938, figlio di Teresa Zoccola e Giuseppe Tenco. Non ha mai conosciuto suo padre, che è morto in circostanze poco chiare. Si vociferava che Luigi Tenco fosse il frutto della relazione extraconiugale di sua madre e del figlio sedicenne della ricca famiglia per la quale lavorava all'epoca.
       Tenco trascorre la sua infanzia a Cassine e Ricaldone fino al 1948, quando si trasferisce in Liguria, prima a Nervi e poi a Genova, dove sua madre aveva un'enoteca chiamata Enos nel quartiere di La Foce. Durante il liceo, Tenco ha fondato la Jelly Roll Morton Boys Jazz band, in cui Tenco ha suonato il clarinetto e un altro cantante, poi diventato famoso, Bruno Lauzi, il banjo. Gino Paoli, che sarebbe diventato anche uno dei più famosi cantanti e cantautori italiani, suonava anche con Tenco nella band in cui fu successivamente coinvolto, I Diavoli del Rock (The Rock Devils).
       Tenco ha debuttato nel mondo della musica professionale italiana con la band I Cavalieri (The Knights), che comprendeva, tra gli altri, Giampiero Reverberi ed Enzo Jannacci. In questo periodo utilizza lo pseudonimo di Gigi Mai. Nel 1961 Tenco pubblicò il suo primo singolo con il suo vero nome, intitolato Quando ("Quando").
      Ha iniziato l'università studiando ingegneria elettronica, cercando di assecondare il desiderio di sua madre e suo fratello. Ha fallito due volte l'esame di Geometria Analitica e Proiettiva (corso seguito con il professor Eugenio Giuseppe Togliatti, fratello maggiore del leader del partito comunista Palmiro Togliatti). Successivamente si è iscritto a scienze politiche, dove ha dato solo due esami.
      Tenco era interessato al cinema e al videomaking. Nel 1962 inizia una breve esperienza cinematografica, con il film La Cuccagna di Luciano Salce. Ha inoltre collaborato alla colonna sonora del film, che introduce anche il suo amico Fabrizio De André(sconosciuta al momento) nel brano La ballata dell'eroe (Ballata per un eroe). Il regista Luigi Comencini ha considerato Tenco per il ruolo di Bube nel suo film La ragazza di Bube, tratto dal romanzo di Carlo Cassola. Alla fine ha scelto George Chakiris, The West Side Story star, invece. In questo periodo Tenco stringe anche una forte amicizia con il poeta anarchico genovese Riccardo Mannerini. Nel 1963, però, si interrompe l'amicizia con Gino Paoli, a causa di un rapporto travagliato con l'attrice Stefania Sandrelli.
       Il primo LP di Tenco, Ballate E Canzoni, fu pubblicato nel 1962. Una delle canzoni, "Cara Maestra" ("Caro Maestro"), fu censurata dall'allora fiorente censura dei media italiani. La censura ha colpito ancora, l'anno successivo, contro le sue canzoni "Io Sì", considerate troppo sessualmente esplicite, e "Una Brava Ragazza", dove Tenco esprime la sua ammirazione per un ' "Bad girl" anni '60. Nel settembre 1964 pubblica "Ho capito che ti amo", una canzone da lui scritta con arrangiamento musicale di Ezio Leoni. È uscito per l'etichetta discografica italiana Jolly come lato A di un 45 giri, lato B "Io lo so già". In Argentina, "Ho capito che ti amo" era la colonna sonora della popolare soap opera El amor tiene cara de mujer.
           Nel 1966, la sofferenza attraverso un periodo di servizio militare obbligatorio, ha pubblicato Un Giorno DOPO L'Altro (un giorno dopo l'altro) per la RCA. Il servizio militare non gli ha impedito di recarsi in Argentina insieme a Gianfranco Reverberi per incontrare i tifosi di El amor tiene cara de mujer. Non è chiaro come sia effettivamente riuscito ad arrivare in Argentina mentre il suo passaporto era ancora in possesso dell'esercito italiano. Inoltre, durante il servizio militare non era permesso lasciare l'Italia e la punizione era la detenzione, che non aveva subito secondo il suo libretto di servizio.
         A Roma, nello stesso anno, conosce e stringe amicizia con la cantante franco-egiziano Dalida. I due alla fine sarebbero diventati amanti.
         "Ho capito che ti amo" è una canzone in lingua italiana scritta dal cantautore Luigi Tenco, con musica arrangiata da Ezio Leoni, e pubblicata per l'etichetta discografica italiana Jolly nel settembre 1964 come lato A di un lato B di 45 giri che è "Io lo so già".
         "Ho capito che ti amo", che significa "ho capito che ti amo", è apparso anche sull'omonimo album del 1965 di Luigi Tenco, Luigi Tenco.
          La canzone era un singolo per la cantante pop italiana Wilma Goich per l'etichetta discografica italiana Dischi Ricordi con il lato B "Era troppo bello".
          Altre versioni famose includono quelle di Joe Diverio, Nicola di Bari ed Emilio Pericoli. È stato tradotto in molte altre lingue.
        Nel 2006, la canzone faceva parte della colonna sonora di Le héros de la famille, un film diretto da Thierry Klifa. La canzone è stata interpretata da Catherine Deneuve.

Ho capito che ti amo
Quando ho visto che bastava
Un tuo ritardo
Per sentir svanire in me
L'indifferenza
Per temere che tu
Non venissi più
Ho capito che ti amo
Quando ho visto che bastava
Una tua frase
Per far sì che una serata
Come un'altra
Cominciasse per incanto
A illuminarsi
E pensare
Che poco tempo prima
Parlando con qualcuno
Mi ero messo a dire
Che oramai
Non sarei più tornato
A credere all'amore
A illudermi a sognare
Ed ecco che poi
Ho capito che ti amo
E già era troppo tardi
Per tornare
Per un po' ho cercato in me
L'indifferenza
Poi mi son lasciato andare
Nell'amore.

HE STOPED LOVING HER TODAY

GEORGE JONES
SONGWRITER: BOBBY BRADDOCK & CURLY PUTMAN
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: I AM WHAT I AM
LABEL: EPIC RECORDS
GENRE: COUNTRY
YEAR: 1980
 
            George Glenn Jones (September 12, 1931 – April 26, 2013) was an American musician, singer, and songwriter. He achieved international fame for his long list of hit records, including his best-known song "He Stopped Loving Her Today", as well as his distinctive voice and phrasing. For the last two decades of his life, Jones was frequently referred to as the greatest living country singer. Country music scholar Bill Malone writes, "For the two or three minutes consumed by a song, Jones immerses himself so completely in its lyrics, and in the mood it conveys, that the listener can scarcely avoid becoming similarly involved." Waylon Jennings expressed a similar opinion in his song "It's Alright": "If we all could sound like we wanted to, we'd all sound like George Jones." The shape of his nose and facial features earned Jones the nickname "The Possum".
          Born in Texas, Jones first heard country music when he was seven, and was given a guitar at the age of nine. He married his first wife, Dorothy Bonvillion, in 1950, and was divorced in 1951. He served in the United States Marine Corps and was discharged in 1953. He married Shirley Ann Corley in 1954. In 1959, Jones recorded "White Lightning", written by J. P. Richardson, which launched his career as a singer. His second marriage ended in divorce in 1968; he married fellow country music singer Tammy Wynette a year later. Years of alcoholism compromised his health and led to his missing many performances, earning him the nickname "No Show Jones". After his divorce from Wynette in 1975, Jones married his fourth wife, Nancy Sepulvado, in 1983 and became sober for good in 1999. Jones died in 2013, aged 81, from hypoxic respiratory failure.
          George Jones has been called "The Rolls Royce Of Country Music" and had more than 160 chart singles to his name from 1955 until his death in 2013. Johnny Cash once said, "When people ask me who my favorite country singer is, I say, 'You mean besides George Jones?'"
           "He Stopped Loving Her Today" is a song recorded by American country music artist George Jones. It has been named in several surveys as the greatest country song of all time. It was released in April 1980 as the lead single from the album I Am What I Am. The song was Jones's first solo No. 1 single in six years. The melancholy song was written by Bobby Braddock and Curly Putman. The week after Jones' death, the song re-entered the Hot Country Songs chart at No. 21. As of November 13, 2013, the single has sold 521,000 copies in the United States. Since 2008 it has been preserved by the Library of Congress into the National Recording Registry. The song was Nº. 275 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
         Alan Jackson sang the song during George Jones' funeral service on May 2, 2013. George Strait and Jackson sang the song as a tribute during the 2013 CMA Awards on November 6, 2013.

He said I'll love you till I die
She told him you'll forget in time
As the years went slowly by
She still preyed upon his mind
 
He kept her picture on his wall
Went half crazy now and then
He still loved her through it all
Hoping she'd come back again
 
Kept some letters by his bed
Dated 1962
He had underlined in red
Every single I love you
I went to see him just today
Oh but I didn't see no tears
All dressed up to go away
First time I'd seen him smile in years
 
He stopped loving her today
They placed a wreath upon his door
And soon they'll carry him away
He stopped loving her today
 
You know she came to see him one last time
Oh and we all wondered if she would
And it kept running through my mind
This time he's over her for good
 
He stopped loving her today
They placed a wreath upon his door
And soon they'll carry him away
He stopped loving her today.HE STOPED LOVING HER TODAY.

IT DON’T MEAN A THING

ELLA FITZGERALD & DUKE ELLINGTON
SONGWRITERS: DUKE ELLINGTON & IRVING MILLS
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: ELLA AND DUKE AT CÔTE D’AZUR
LABEL: VERVE RECORDS
GENRE: JAZZ
YEAR: 1967
 
          Ella and Duke at the Cote D'Azur is a 1967 live album by Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by the big band of Duke Ellington.
          It was recorded live at the Jazz à Juan festival at Juan-les-Pins, on the French Riviera, between June 26 and July 29, 1966. Earlier in the year, Fitzgerald and Ellington had recorded their only other live album together, The Stockholm Concert, 1966, in Stockholm.
          The album was released as a double-LP in 1967. In 1998, Verve Records released the concert on compact disc, in both a two-CD version and a complete eight-CD version.
           "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" is a 1931 composition by Duke Ellington with lyrics by Irving Mills. It is now accepted as a jazz standard, and jazz historian Gunther Schuller characterized it as "now legendary" and "a prophetic piece and a prophetic title". In 2008, Ellington's 1932 recording of the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame
      The music was composed and arranged by Ellington in August 1931 during intermissions at the Lincoln Tavern in Chicago and was first recorded by Ellington and his orchestra for Brunswick Records on February 2, 1932. After Mills wrote the lyrics, Ivie Anderson sang the vocal and trombonist Joe Nanton and alto saxophonist Johnny Hodges played the solos. The song became famous, Ellington wrote, "as the expression of a sentiment which prevailed among jazz musicians at the time". Ellington credited the saying as a credo of trumpeter Bubber Miley, who was dying of tuberculosis at the time; Miley died the year the song was released. The Ellington band recorded it numerous times, most often with trumpeter Ray Nance as vocalist.
It don't mean a thing
If it ain't got that swing
(Doo wah, doo wah, doo wah, doo wah)
(Doo wah, doo wah, doo wah, doo wah)
 
It don't mean a thing
All you got to do is sing
(Doo wah, doo wah, doo wah, doo wah)
(Doo wah, doo wah, doo wah, doo wah)
 
It makes no diff'rence
If it's sweet or hot
Just give that rhythm
Ev'rything you got
 
Oh, it don't mean a thing
If it ain't got that swing
(Doo wah, doo wah, doo wah, doo wah)
(Doo wah, doo wah, doo wah, doo wah).

IT DON’T MEAN A THING

LIONEL HAMPTON & ORCHESTRA
SOGWRITER: DUKE ELLINGTON
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: IT DON’T MEAN A THING/HOT MALLETS
LABEL: RCA VICTOR
GENRE: JAZZ
YEAR: 1941
 
         Lionel Leo Hampton (April 20, 1908 – August 31, 2002) was an American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, and bandleader. Hampton worked with jazz musicians from Teddy Wilson, Benny Goodman, and Buddy Rich, to Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, and Quincy Jones. In 1992, he was inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame, and he was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1996.
          Lionel Hampton was born in 1908 in Louisville, Kentucky, and was raised by his mother. Shortly after he was born, he and his mother moved to her hometown of Birmingham, Alabama. He spent his early childhood in Kenosha, Wisconsin, before he and his family moved to Chicago, Illinois, in 1916. As a youth, Hampton was a member of the Bud Billiken Club, an alternative to the Boy Scouts of America, which was off-limits because of racial segregation. During the 1920s, while still a teenager, Hampton took xylophone lessons from Jimmy Bertrand and began to play drums. Hampton was raised Roman Catholic, and started out playing fife and drum at the Holy Rosary Academy near Chicago.
          While Hampton worked for Goodman in New York, he recorded with several different small groups known as the Lionel Hampton Orchestra, as well as assorted small groups within the Goodman band. In 1940 Hampton left the Goodman organization under amicable circumstances to form his own big band.
          Hampton's orchestra developed a high-profile during the 1940s and early 1950s. His third recording with them in 1942 produced the version of "Flying Home", featuring a solo by Illinois Jacquet that anticipated rhythm & blues. Although Hampton first recorded "Flying Home" under his own name with a small group in 1940 for Victor, the best known version is the big band version recorded for Decca on May 26, 1942, in a new arrangement by Hampton's pianista Milt Buckner. The 78 RPM disc became successful enough for Hampton to record "Flyin' Home #2" in 1944, this time a feature for Arnett Cobb. The song went on to become the theme song for all three men. Guitarist Billy Mackel first joined Hampton in 1944, and would perform and record with him almost continuously through to the late 1970s. In 1947, Hamp performed "Stardust" at a "Just Jazz" concert for producer Gene Norman, also featuring Charlie Shavers and Slam Stewart; the recording was issued by Decca. Later, Norman's GNP Crescendo label issued the remaining tracks from the concert.(…)
          The Hampton orchestra that toured Europe in 1953 included Clifford Brown, Gigi Gryce, Anthony Ortega, Monk Montgomery, George Wallington, Art Farmer, Quincy Jones, and singer Annie Ross. Hampton continued to record with small groups and jam sessions during the 1940s and 1950s, with Oscar Peterson, Buddy DeFranco, and others. In 1955, while in California working on The Benny Goodman Story he recorded with Stan Getz and made two albums with Art Tatum for Norman Granz as well as with his own big band.
          Hampton performed with Louis Armstrong and Italian singer Lara Saint Paul at the 1968 Sanremo Music Festival in Italy. The performance created a sensation with Italian audiences, as it broke into a real jazz session. That same year, Hampton received a Papal Medal from Pope Paul VI.
           "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" is a 1931 composition by Duke Ellington with lyrics by Irving Mills. It is now accepted as a jazz standard, and jazz historian Gunther Schuller characterized it as "now legendary" and "a prophetic piece and a prophetic title". In 2008, Ellington's 1932 recording of the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame
The music was composed and arranged by Ellington in August 1931 during intermissions at the Lincoln Tavern in Chicago and was first recorded by Ellington and his orchestra for Brunswick Records on February 2, 1932. After Mills wrote the lyrics, Ivie Anderson sang the vocal and trombonist Joe Nanton and alto saxophonist Johnny Hodges played the solos. The song became famous, Ellington wrote, "as the expression of a sentiment which prevailed among jazz musicians at the time". Ellington credited the saying as a credo of trumpeter Bubber Miley, who was dying of tuberculosis at the time; Miley died the year the song was released. The Ellington band recorded it numerous times, most often with trumpeter Ray Nance as vocalist.