SOPHISTICATED LADY

THE BOSWELL SISTER’S
SONGWRITERS: EDWARD KENNEDYELLINGTON; IRVING MILLS & MITCHEL PARISH
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: THAT’S HOW RHYTM WAS BORN
LABEL: SONY MUSIC
GENRE: JAZZ
YEAR: 1933
 
         The Boswell Sisters were an American close harmony singing trio of the jazz and swing eras, consisting of three sisters: Martha Boswell(June 9, 1905 – July 2, 1958), Connee Boswell(original name Connie, December 3, 1907 – October 11, 1976), and Helvetia "Vet" Boswell(May 20, 1911 – November 12, 1988). Hailing from uptown New Orleans, the group was noted for their intricate harmonies and rhythmic experimentation. They attained national prominence in the United States in the 1930s during the twilight years of the Jazz Age and the onset of the Great Depression.
        When the trio formally split in 1936, Connie continued as a solo vocalist in radio, film, and later television for an additional quarter of a century. The trio's "unique singing style and ground-breaking arrangements fused 'blackness' and 'whiteness' in music," and their collaborations with "the preeminent white swing musicians of their day—the Dorsey Brothers, Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw—had a profound effect on the development of the big band sound in the 1930s." When assessing their legacy, scholars claim the Boswell Sisters "made 'real' jazz commercially viable, destigmatizing the music and opening its appreciation to the wider American public."
Sophisticated lady tryin' to change my ways
Just because you're caught in your social maze
I think it's 'bout time that you realize
Your money and your power's got you mesmerized
 
Pretty lady, get back
Pretty lady, yea
Sophisticated lady put your blue jeans on
You're anybody's baby when your mama's gone
 
Educated lady with your college degree
Amazes me why you just can't see
Learned everything from your books on the shelf
But no one ever taught you how to think for yourself
 
Pretty lady, get back
Pretty lady, yea, sweet thing
Sophisticated lady put your blue jeans on
You're anybody's baby when your mama's gone
 
Sophisticated lady take a lesson from me
I can help you be what you want to be
Together we'll see many brighter days
If it takes forever, gonna change your ways
 
Pretty lady, get back
Pretty lady, yea, sweet thing
Sophisticated lady put your blue jeans on
You're anybody's baby when your mama's gone
 
Sophisticated lady put your blue jeans on
You're anybody's baby when your mama's gone
 
Sophisticated lady put your blue jeans on
You're anybody's baby when your mama's gone.

WALK RIGHT BACK

THE EVERLY BROTHERS
SONGWRITHER: SONNY CURTIS
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: THE GOLDEN HITS OF THE EVERLY BROTHERS
LABEL: WARNER BROTHERS
GENRE: ROCK
YEAR: 1962
 
          The Everly Brothers were an American country-influenced rock and roll duo, known for steel-string acoustic guitar playing and close harmony singing. Consisting of Isaac Donald "Don" Everly (born February 1, 1937) and Phillip "Phil" Jason Everly (January 19, 1939 – January 3, 2014), the duo was raised in a musical family, first appearing on radio singing along with their father Ike Everly and mother Margaret Everly as "The Everly Family" in the 1940s. When the brothers were still in high school, they gained the attention of prominent Nashville musicians like Chet Atkins, who began to groom them for national attention.
         They began writing and recording their own music in 1956, and their first hit song came in 1957, with "Bye Bye Love", written by Felice and Boudleaux Bryant. The song hit Nº.1 in the spring of 1957, and additional hits would follow through 1958, many of them written by the Bryants, including "Wake Up Little Susie", "All I Have to Do Is Dream", and "Problems". In 1960, they signed with the major label Warner Bros. Records and recorded "Cathy's Clown", written by the brothers themselves, which was their biggest selling single. The brothers enlisted in the United States Marine Corps Reserve in 1961, and their output dropped off, though additional hit singles continued through 1962, with "That's Old Fashioned (That's the Way Love Should Be)" being their last top-10 hit.
        "Walk Right Back" is a 1961 song by Sonny Curtis that was recorded by The Everly Brothers, and went to No. 7 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart. Overseas, the song went to Nº.1 on the UK Singles Chart for three weeks. Originally it was the B-side, then it was changed to the A-side.
     In an interview he did with Jim Liddane of the International Songwriters Association, Sonny Curtis said about the song:
       Well, I wrote most of that one Sunday afternoon, while I was doing my basic training in California, just after I went in the army, although I had the guitar riff for a while, and then, Lady Luck stepped in. I never was much for guns, and still am not really into them, but out of 250 men in our unit in basic training, six of us fired expert, and I was one of the six!
          Anyway, for firing expert, they gave me a three-day pass, and I went straight down to Hollywood, and the Crickets were there, and so were Don and Phil, who were doing some acting classes for movies – they had just signed for Warner Brothers. So, J.I. (Jerry Allison of the Crickets) told me to sing the song for Don – actually I had only one verse written – and Don called Phil down, and they worked out a gorgeous harmony part. So, they said, 'If you write another verse. we'll record it'.
          Anyway, I went back to base, and wrote a second verse, and put it in the mail to them, and next morning, I got a letter from J.I. to tell me that the Everlys had already recorded the song before they got my letter – they had simply recorded the first verse twice! And that's the version that was released, and that's the version that was the hit!
The joke is that Perry Como and Andy Williams and a whole bunch of others including myself, recorded the song with the second verse included, but when Anne Murray did it in 1978, she just did the same as the Everlys, just the one verse – and that was a big hit all over again – so maybe the second verse was never meant to be!
(It goes:
         These eyes of mine that gave you loving glances once before, change to shades of cloudy gray. I want so very much to see you, just like before. I've got to know you're coming back to stay. Please believe me when I say, 'It's great to hear from you,' but there's a lot of things a letter just can't say, oh, me. Walk right back to me this minute ...
I want you to tell me why you walked out on me
I'm so lonesome every day
I want you to know that since you walked out on me
Nothing seems to be the same old way
 
Think about the love that burns within my heart for you
The good times we had before you went away, oh please
Walk right back to me this minute
Bring your love to me, don't send it
I'm so lonesome every day
 
I want you to tell me why you walked out on me
I'm so lonesome every day
I want you to know that since you walked out on me
Nothing seems to be the same old way
 
Think about the love that burns within my heart for you
The good times we had before you went away from me
Walk right back to me this minute
Bring your love to me, don't send it
I'm so lonesome every day
 
I'm so lonesome every day
I'm so lonesome every day.

SI TÚ ME DICES VEN

DIEGO EL CIGALA
COMPOSITOR: ALFREDO GIL
PAIS: ESPAÑAXREPÚBLICA DOMINICANA
ÁLBUM: CIGALA CANTA A MÉXICO
DISCOGRÁFICA: SONY MUSIC
GÉNERO: FOLK
AÑO: 2020
 
          Diego Ramón Jiménez Salazar (Madrid, 27 de diciembre de 1968), más conocido como El Cigala, es un cantaor de flamenco, español de etnia gitana y nacionalidad dominicana desde 2014. Es "Diego" resultado de una disputa familiar producida por su padre y su tío en la pila bautismal; y "cigala" apodo que recibió de los hermanos Losadas, guitarristas.
          Creció cerca de la zona del Rastro, en el barrio de Embajadores de Madrid. Sobrino de los cantantes de flamenco Rafael Farina y Rafael Salazar Motos, Calderas de Salamanca; a los 12 años ganó un concurso de flamenco y el primer premio del certamen al mejor cantaor Getafe.
        En 1997 publica Undebel, su primer disco en solitario, donde colaboran entre otros Tomatito y Paquete. En elM 2000, Javier Limón le produce Entre vareta y canasta, un disco que se publicó con el apoyo publicitario de artistas como El Gran Wyoming, Santiago Segura, Pablo Carbonell y Javier Krahe, entre otros, y en el que participaron a la guitarra Niño Josele y Vicente Amigo. El video erótico del álbum estaba realizado por Fernando Esteso. Un año más tarde aparece Corren tiempos de alegría, producido también por Javier Limón y con el Niño Josele a su lado, y con invitados excepcionales como Bebo Valdés y Jerry González. El disco fue nominado como Mejor Disco de Flamenco en los Grammy Latinos.
             Su cuarto disco se graba durante un concierto en directo en el Teatro Real de Madrid, con el único acompañamiento de la guitarra de Niño Josele y también producido por Javier Limón.
          EN 2002, Fernando Trueba produce el disco de versiones Lágrimas negras, disco que une a Diego «el Cigala» con Bebo Valdés al piano y que se publica en 2003, el éxito es internacional. Diego consigue en el 2004 un Grammy, tres Premios de la Música, un Premio Ondas, cinco Premios Amigo, tres Discos de Platino en España y uno en Argentina, México y Venezuela. The New York Times lo alaba como "Mejor disco del año" en el apartado de música latina y Bebo y Diego «el Cigala» llenan los mejores teatros del mundo: París, Nueva York, Londres, La Habana, Buenos Aires, Tokio, México D. F., Madrid, Barcelona, Torreón Coah... A finales de 2004 el disco había vendido más de 700.000 copias en todo el mundo. Entre los temas incorporados en el álbum se encuentran temas clássicos canción cubana, de copla y flamenco. Tras esta obra vino Picasso en mis ojos, disco homenaje al artista malagueño Pablo Picasso.
Si tú me dices ven, lo dejo todo
Si tú me dices ven, será todo para ti
Mis momentos más ocultos
 
También te los daré
Mis secretos que son pocos
Serán tuyos también
 
Si tú me dices ven, todo cambiará
Si tú me dices ven, habrá felicidad
Si tú me dices ven, si tú me dices ven
 
No detengas el momento por lad indecisiones
Para unir alma con alma, corazón con corazón
Reír contigo ante cualquier dolor
Llorar contigo, llorar contigo
Será mi salvación
 
Pero si tú me dices ven, lo dejo todo
Que no se te haga tarde
Y te encuentres en la calle
Perdida, sin rumbo y en el lodo
Si tú me dices ven, lo dejo todo
 
No detengas el momento por las indecisiones
Para unir alma con alma, corazón con corazón
Reír contigo ante cualquier dolor
Llorar contigo, llorar contigo
Será mi salvación
 
Pero si tú me dices ven, lo dejo todo
Que no se te haga tarde
Y te encuentres en la calle
Perdida, sin rumbo y en el lodo
Si tú me dices ven, lo dejo todo.

HE PERDIDO CONTIGO

OMARA PORTUONDO
COMPOSITORES: LUÍS CÁRDENAS & VERA MORUA MARIA TERESA
PAIS: CUBA
ÁLBUM: BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB PRESENTS OMARA PORTUONDO
DISCOGRÁFICA: WORLD CIRCUIT
GÉNERO: JAZZ
AÑO: 2000
 
       Omara Portuondo Peliez (La Habana, 29 de octubre de 1930) es una cantante cubana de son y boleros, además de ser una de las mayores representantes del llamado Feeling. Conocida como «La diva del Buena Vista Social Club» o «La novia del feeling».
            Su madre pertenecía a una familia cubana de abolengo de ascendencia española y se esperaba de ella un casamiento que la uniera a otras familias de la sociedad, pero escapó con el hombre al que amaba, un jugador de béisbol del equipo nacional. El matrimonio tuvo tres hijas, y, como en cualquier hogar cubano, había música; no tenían dinero, pero tenían las voces de los padres, cantando en la cocina donde hacían sus vidas diarias. Omara, que nació en el barrio de Cayo Hueso de La Habana, recuerda sus canciones, incluida entre sus favoritas La bayamesa, de Ernesto Grenet y Sindo Garay (también cantada por Compay Segundo en Buena Vista Social Club). Estas fueron sus primeras lecciones informales de canto, y dichas canciones pasaron a formar parte de su repertorio de toda la vida.
       Cuando su hermana Haydée se convirtió en bailarina del famoso cabaré Tropicana, Omara pronto la siguió, por accidente: la compañía de danza se vio reducida un día de 1945 cuando una bailarina se retiró dos días antes de un importante estreno. Omara había visto ensayar a su hermana tan a menudo, que se sabía todos los pasos, así que le pidieron que ocupara el lugar dejado libre.
Me quisiste lo sé, yo también te he querido
Me olvidaste después, pero yo no he podido
A sufrir por tu amor, me condenó el destino
 
Qué le vamos a hacer yo tenía
Qué perder y he perdido contigo
Qué le vamos a hacer yo tenía
Qué perder y he perdido contigo
 
Tantos amores buenos, que con fe me adoraban
Yo les negué el cariño de inocente quedado
Pero fuiste tan cruel que jugaste conmigo
 
Qué le vamos a hacer yo tenía
Qué perder y he perdido contigo
Qué le vamos a hacer yo tenía
Qué perder y he perdido contigo
 
Tantos amores buenos, que con fe me adoraron
Yo les negué el cariño que inocente quedado
Pero fuiste tan cruel que jugaste conmigo
 
Qué le vamos a hacer yo tenía
Qué perder y he perdido contigo
Qué le vamos a hacer yo tenía
Qué perder y he perdido contigo.