TENDER IS THE NIGHT

TONY BENNETT
SONGWRITERS: PAUL FRANCIS WEBSTER & SAMMY FAIN
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: I LEFT MY HEART IN SAN FRANCISCO
LABEL: COLUMBIA
GENRE: JAZZ
YEAR: 1962
 
      Anthony Dominick Benedetto(born August 3, 1926), known professionally as Tony Bennett, is an American singer of traditional pop standards, big band, show tunes, and jazz. Bennett is also a painter, having created works under his birth name that are on permanent public display in several institutions. He is the founder of the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in Astoria, Queens, New York.
       Bennett began singing at an early age. He fought in the final stages of World War II as a U.S. Army infantryman in the European Theater. Afterward, he developed his singing technique, signed with Columbia Records and had his first number-one popular song with "Because of You" in 1951. Several tracks such as "Rags to Riches" followed in early 1953. He then refined his approach to encompass jazz singing. He reached an artistic peak in the late 1950s with albums such as The Beat of My Heart and Basie Swings, Bennett Sings. In 1962, Bennett recorded his signature song, "I Left My Heart in San Francisco". His career and personal life experienced an extended downturn during the height of the rock music era. Bennett staged a comeback in the late 1980s and 1990s, putting out gold record albums again and expanding his reach to the MTV generation while keeping his musical style intact. He remains a popular and critically praised recording artist and concert performer to date. His work includes a collaboration with Lady Gaga, having toured and recorded two albums together, Cheek to Cheek (2014) and Love for Sale(2021).
      He has won 20 Grammy Awards (including a Lifetime Achievement Award presented in 2001) and two Primetime Emmy Awards, and was named an NEA Jazz Master and a Kennedy Center Honoree. Bennett has sold over 50 million records worldwide.
           In February 2021, it was revealed that Bennett was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2016. Due to the slow progression of his illness, he continued to record, tour, and perform until his unrelated retirement from concert performances in August 2021.
         “Tender Is the Night” was written for the 1962 film of the same name, based on the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel. The film starred Jason Robards and Jennifer Jones. “Tender Is the Night” received a nomination for Best Song, but lost to “Days of Wine and Roses” by Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer.

Tender is the night
So tender is the night
There's no one in the world
Except the two of us
 
Should tomorrow find us disenchanted
We have shared the love that few have known
Summers by the sea, a sailboat in Capri
These memories shall be our very own
 
Even though our dreams may vanish
With the morning light
We loved once in splendor
How tender, how tender the night
 
Even though our dreams may vanish
With the morning light
We loved once in splendor
How tender, how tender the night. 

TENDER IS THE NIGHT

JACKSON BROWNE
SONGWRITERS: DANNY KORTCHMAR; JACKSON BROWNE & RUSS KUNKEL
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: LAWYERS IN LOVE
LABEL: ASYLUM RECORDS
GENRE: SOFT ROCK
YEAR: 1983
 
         Clyde Jackson Browne (born October 9, 1948) is an American singer-songwriter and musician who has sold over 18 million albums in the United States.
          Emerging as a precocious teenage songwriter in mid-1960s Los Angeles, he had his first successes writing songs for others, writing "These Days" as a 16-year-old; the song became a minor hit for the German singer and Andy Warhol protégé Nico in 1967. He also wrote several songs for fellow Southern California bands Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (with whom he was briefly a member in 1966) and the Eagles, the latter of whom had their first Billboard Top 40 hit in 1972 with the Browne co-written song "Take It Easy".
         Encouraged by his successes writing songs for others, Browne released his self-titled debut album in 1972, which spawned two Top 40 hits of his own, "Doctor, My Eyes" and "Rock Me on the Water". For his debut album, as well as for the next several albums and concert tours, Browne started working closely with The Section, a prolific session band that also worked with a number of other prominent singer-songwriters of the era. His second album, For Everyman, was released in 1973, and while it lacked an enduring single, has been retrospectively assessed as some of his best work, appearing highly on several "Best Album of All Time" lists. His third album, Late for the Sky, was his most successful to that point, peaking at number 14 on the Billboard 200 album chart, and earning Browne his first Grammy nomination for Album of the Year. His fourth album, The Pretender, continued the pattern of each album topping the previous by peaking at number 5 on the album chart, and spawned the hit singles "Here Come Those Tears Again" and "The Pretender".
        It would be the 1977 album Running on Empty, however, that would be his signature work, peaking at number 3 on the album chart, and remaining there for over a year. Both a live album and a concept album, the songs on the album explore the themes of life as a touring musician, and the album was recorded both on stage, and in places touring musicians spend time when not playing, such as hotel rooms, backstage, and in one case on a moving tour bus. The album produced two Top 40 singles, "Running on Empty" and "The Load-Out/Stay", and many of the other tracks became popular radio hits on the AOR format.
          Successful albums continued through the 1980s, including the 1980 album Hold Out, his only number 1 album, the non-album single "Somebody's Baby", which was used in the film Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and 1983's Lawyers in Love, which included the hit single "Tender Is the Night". In 1986, he released Lives in the Balance, which had several radio hits and included the introspective "In the Shape of a Heart", which was inspired by the suicide of his first wife a decade prior. His string of hit albums came to an end at that point, as his next several albums failed to produce a gold or platinum RIAA rating.
        He released two compilation albums, The Next Voice You Hear: The Best of Jackson Browne in 1997, and The Very Best of Jackson Browne, released in conjunction with his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction in 2004. His most recent studio album is 2021's Downhill From Everywhere, the follow-up to 2014's Standing in the Breach, which included the first fully realized version of his song "The Birds of St. Marks", a song he had written at age 18. In 2015, Rolling Stone ranked him as 37th in its list of the "100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time".
        "Tender Is the Night" is a song by Jackson Browne released in 1983 as the second single from his album Lawyers in Love. The song peaked at number 25 on the Billboard Hot 100, spending 17 weeks on that chart after debuting at number 79, number 18 on the US Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, and number 24 on the US Adult Contemporary. It was also released as a single in Germany and the United Kingdom.
        The music video for the song included actress Daryl Hannah.
Between the darkness on the street
And the houses filling up with light
Between the stillness in my heart
And the roar of the approaching night
Somebody's calling after somebody
Somebody turns the corner out of sight
Looking for somebody
Somewhere in the night
Tender is the night
Tender, when you hold your baby tight
Tender, tender are the motions, tender is the night
Between a life that we expected
And the way it's always been
I can't walk back in again
After the way we fight
When just outside there are people laughing
Living lives we used to lead
Chasing down the love they need
Somewhere in the night
Tender is the night
Tender, and the benediction of the neon light
Tender, tender are the hunters, tender is the night
You're gonna want me tonight
When you're ready to surrender
Forget about who's right
When you're ready to remember
It's another world at night
When you're ready to be tender
Tender, tender tender
Tender, tender tender
Tender
 
And in the hard light of an angry sun
No one remembers what was said or done
Tender are the words they choose
You win, I win, we lose
Tender
Tender is the night
Tender
The benediction of the neon light
Tender
Tender are the hunters
Tender is the night
When they hold each other tight
Tender
Tender are the undercover
Tender
The stranger and the secret lover
Tender
Tender are the motions
Tender is the night
When you hold your baby tight
Tender, tender, tender
Tender, tender, tender.


STAND BY ME

EARL GRANT
SONGWRITERS: BEN E. KING & ELMO GLICK
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: FEVER
LABEL: DECCA RECORDS
GENRE: JAZZ
YEAR: 1966
 
           Earl Grant(January 20, 1931 – June 10, 1970) was an American pianist, organist, and vocalist popular in the 1950s and 1960s.
          Grant was born in Idabel, Oklahoma. Though he would be known later for his keyboards and vocals, Grant also played trumpet and drums. Grant attended four music schools, eventually becoming a music teacher. He augmented his income by performing in clubs during his army service, throughout which he was stationed in Fort Bliss, Texas. Grant signed with Decca Records in 1957 and his first single "The End" reached number 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The álbum Ebb Tide (And Other Instrumental Favorites) sold over one million copies, gaining gold disc status. He recorded six more singles that made the charts, including "Swingin' Gently" (from Beyond the Reef), and six additional albums (on the Decca label) through 1968. He also recorded the album Yes Sirree! and the instrumental album Trade Winds, single-tracked on the Hammond organ and piano, featuring the love theme from the film El Cid and Chaplin's "Eternally". This album featured some realistic-sounding "tropical bird calls" produced by his electric organ. "House of Bamboo" was another big-selling single. Grant recorded 30 albums for Decca, mostly on the Brunswick label, a subsidiary of Decca.
     Several of his albums featured tenor saxophonist Plas Johnson.
         Grant also made a few appearances in films and on television, including Tender Is the Night (1962), Juke Box Rhythm (1959), It Takes a Thief(1969) and The Ed Sullivan Show(1960).
      Grant sang the title theme for the 1959 film Imitation of Life.
          He died instantly in a car accident in Lordsburg, New Mexico, at the age of 39 when the car he was driving ran off Interstate 10. He was driving from Los Angeles to an intended destination in Juarez, Mexico, for an appearance at the La Fiesta nightclub. His cousin's 17-year-old son, Roosevelt Woods III, was also killed in the accident.
          On June 25, 2019, The New York Times Magazine listed Earl Grant among hundreds of artists whose material was reportedly destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire.

ANA MARIA BIQUINI DE BOLINHA AMARELINHA

BANDA BLITZ
COMPOSITORES: POCKRISS & VANCE
PAÍS: BRASIL
ÁLBUM: RÁDIO ATIVIDADE
GRAVADORA: EMI MUSIC
GÊNERO: POP ROCK
ANO: 1983
 
     BlitZ é uma banda de rock brasileira. É uma das bandas precursoras do chamado "BRock". O grupo foi formado na cidade do Rio de Janeiro em 1982. Originalmente foi formado por Evandro Mesquita(voz e guitarra), Fernanda Abreu(backing vocal), Marcia Bulcão(backing vocal), Ricardo Barreto(guitarra), Antônio Pedro Fortuna (baixo), Billy Forghieri(teclados) e Lobão (bateria).

Ana Maria entrou na cabine
E foi vestir um biquíni legal
Mas era tão pequenino o biquíni
Que Ana Maria até sentiu-se mal
Ai, ai, ai, mas ficou sensacional
 
Era um biquíni de bolinha amarelinha tão pequenininho
Mal cabia na Ana Maria
Biquíni de bolinha amarelinha tão pequenininho
Que na palma da mão se escondia
 
Ana Maria toda envergonhada
Não quis sair da cabine assim
Ficou com medo que a rapaziada
Olhasse tudo tim-tim por tim-tim
Ai, ai, ai, a garota tá pra mim
 
Era um biquíni de bolinha amarelinha tão pequenininho
Mal cabia na Ana Maria
Biquíni de bolinha amarelinha tão pequenininho
Que na palma da mão se escondia
 
Ana Maria olhou-se no espelho
E viu-se quase despida afinal
Ficou com rosto todinho vermelho
E escondeu o maiô no dedal
 
Era um biquíni de bolinha amarelinha tão pequenininho
Mal cabia na Ana Maria
"Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini"
Que na palma da mão se escondia
Era um biquíni de bolinha amarelinha tão pequenininho
Que na palma da mão se escondia
 
Era um biquíni de bolinha amarelinha tão pequenininho
Mal cabia na Ana Maria
Biquíni de bolinha amarelinha tão pequenininho
Que na palma da mão se escondia
 
Era um biquíni de bolinha amarelinha tão pequenininho
Mal cabia na Ana Maria
Biquíni de bolinha amarelinha tão pequenininho
Que na palma da mão se escondia
 
Acabou toda folia
Da mocinha da cabine
Mas quem é que não queria
ver a moça do biquíni.