FELICIDADE

JOANNA
COMPOSITOR: LUPICÍNIO RODRIGES
PAÍS: BRASIL
ÁLBUM: JOANA CANTA LUPICÍNIO
GRAVADORA: RCA RECORDS
GÊNERO: SAMBA CANÇÃO
ANO: 1994
 
         Joanna, nome artístico de Maria de Fátima Gomes Nogueira(Rio de Janeiro, 27 de janeiro de 1957), é uma cantora, compositora e multi-instrumentista brasileira. Como compositora, assinou dezenas de canções, algumas gravadas por grandes nomes como Cauby Peixoto, Angela Maria, Simone e Emílio Santiago.
          Nascida e criada no bairro do Méier, no subúrbio carioca, é filha do violonista Joaquim, e da dona de casa Marietta, que também gostava de cantar em reuniões familiares. Desde a infância escrevia canções e poemas. Aos doze anos ganhou de presente um violão do pai, e foi matriculada numa escola de instrumentos musicais. Seu irmão a incentivava a compor e cantar, e mesmo sem ser profissional, se interessava por música e a ensinou os primeiros acordes de violão. Sua irmã preferiu seguir o caminho educacional e tornou-se professora. Em entrevistas revela que na infância gostava de brincar na rua, jogar bola, soltar pipa e rodar pião. Cursando o terceiro ano de administração, resolveu deixar os estudos universitários para se dedicar somente a música.
          Sua carreira teve início com a participação em festivais do interior do estado: ela pesquisava por lugares onde haveria concursos de música, e viajava sozinha para participar das competições musicais. Algumas ganhou, outras perdeu, mas sempre colecionava troféus musicais. Atuou também como backing vocal de conjuntos de bailes e casas noturnas, estreando na noite carioca ainda sem ser famosa.
Felicidade foi se embora
E a saudade no meu peito
Ainda mora
E é por isso que eu gosto lá de fora
Porque sei que a falsidade
Não vigora
 
A minha casa
Fica lá detrás do mundo
Onde eu vou em um segundo
Quando começo a pensar
O pensamento
Parece uma coisa à toa
Mas como é que a gente voa
Quando começa a pensar
 
Felicidade foi-se embora
E a saudade no meu peito
Ainda mora
E é por isso que eu gosto lá de fora
Porque sei que a falsidade
Não vigora.

PLAY IT COOL

HUBERT SUMLIN
SONGWRITER: BILLY FURY
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: HEALING FEELING
LABEL: BLACK TOP RECORDS
GENRE: BLUES
YEAR: 1990
 
      Hubert Charles Sumlin(November 16, 1931–December 4, 2011) was a Chicago blues guitarist and singer, best known for his "wrenched, shattering bursts of notes, sudden cliff-hanger silences and daring rhythmic suspensions" as a member of Howlin' Wolf's band. He was ranked number 43 in Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time"
        Sumlin was born in Greenwood, Mississippi, and raised in Hughes, Arkansas. He got his first guitar when he was eight years old. As a boy, he met Howlin' Wolf by sneaking into a performance.
          Wolf relocated from Memphis to Chicago in 1953, but his longtime guitarist Willie Johnson chose not to join him. In Chicago, Wolf hired the guitarist Jody Williams, but in 1954 he invited Sumlin to move to Chicago to play second guitar in his band. Williams left the band in 1955, leaving Sumlin as the primary guitarist, a position he held almost continuously (except for a brief spell playing with Muddy Waters around 1956) for the remainder of Wolf's career. According to Sumlin, Howlin' Wolf sent him to a classical guitar instructor at the Chicago Conservatory of Music to learn keyboards and scales. Sumlin played on the album Howlin' Wolf(called the "rocking chair album", with reference to its cover illustration), which was named the third greatest guitar album of all time by Mojo magazine in 2004
       Upon Wolf's death in 1976, Sumlin continued playing with several other members of Wolf's band, as the Wolf Gang, until about 1980. He also recorded under his own name, beginning with a session from a tour of Europe with Wolf in 1964. His last solo album was About Them Shoes, released in 2004 by Tone-Cool Records. He underwent lung removal surgery the same year, but he continued performing until just before his death. His final recording, just days before his death, was tracks for an album by Stephen Dale Petit, Cracking The Code(333 Records).
        Sumlin was inducted into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame in 2008. He was nominated for four Grammy Awards: in 1999 for the album Tribute to Howlin' Wolf, with Henry Gray, Calvin Jones, Sam Lay, and Colin Linden; in 2000 for Legends, with Pinetop Perkins; in 2006, for his solo project About Them Shoes which features performances by Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, Levon Helm, David Johansen and James Cotton) and in 2010 for his contribution to Kenny Wayne Shepherd's Live! in Chicago. He won multiple Blues Music Awards. He was a judge for the fifth annual Independent Music Awards, given to support the careers of independent artists.
          Sumlin lived in Totowa, New Jersey for 10 years before his death. He died of heart failure on December 4, 2011, at the age of 80, in a hospital in Wayne, New Jersey. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards paid Sumlin's funeral expenses.
Play it cool baby
Play it cool
Don't forget that golden rule
Now were flying high
Way up in the sky
C'mon play it cool
 
Play it cool baby
Play it cool
C'mon and join my lovers school
You would love to learn
I just make you burn
C'mon play it cool
 
When your heart keeps beating a minute
Then baby don't you hurry
There's time for you
And time for me
Never worry
 
Play it cool baby
Play it cool
Don't forget that golden rule
Now were flying high way up in the sky
C'mon play it cool
 
Now play it boys
 
When your heart keeps beating a minute
Then baby don't you hurry
There's time for you
And time for me
A baby don't you worry
 
Play it cool baby
Play it cool
Don't forget that golden rule
Now were flying high
Way up in the sky
C'mon play it cool
 
So c'mon c'mon c'mon
Play it cool
Yeah.

HARD TIMES

JOHN LEE HOOKER
SONGWRITER: JOHN LEE HOOKER
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: HARD TIMES
LABEL: CARLTON SOUNDS
GENRE: BUES
YEAR: 1997
 
       John Lee Hooker(August 22, 1912 or 1917–June 21, 2001) was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. The son of a sharecropper, he rose to prominence performing an electric guitar-style adaptation of Delta blues. Hooker often incorporated other elements, including talking blues and early North Mississippi Hill country blues. He developed his own driving-rhythm boogie style, distinct from the 1930s–1940s piano-derived boogie-woogie. Hooker was ranked 35 in Rolling Stone's 2015 list of 100 greatest guitarists.
         Some of his best known songs include "Boogie Chillen'"(1948), "Crawling King Snake" (1949), "Dimples"(1956), "Boom Boom"(1962), and "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" (1966). Several of his later albums, including The Healer(1989), Mr. Lucky(1991), Chill Out(1995), and Don't Look Back(1997), were album chart successes in the U.S. and UK. The Healer(for the song "I'm In The Mood") and Chill Out(for the album) both earned him Grammy wins as well as Don't Look Back, which went on to earn him a double-Grammy win for Best Traditional Blues Recording and Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals (with Van Morrison)
No food on my table.
And no shoes to go on my feet.
No food on my table.
And no shoes to go on my feet.
My children cry for mercy.
They got no place to call your own.
 
Hard times, hard times.
Hard times seem like a jealous thing.
Hard times, hard times.
Hard times seem like a jealous thing.
If someone don't help me.
And I just can't be around three months long.
 
No shoes on my feet.
And no food to go on my table.
Oh no, too sad.
Children crying for bread.

DARK PARADISE

LANA DEL REY
SONGWRITERS: LANA DEL REY & GRANT ELIZABETH
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: BORN TO DIE: THE PARADISE EDITION
LABEL: UNIVERSAL MUSIC
GENRE: TRIP HOP
YEAR: 2012
 
          Elizabeth Woolridge Grant(born June 21, 1985), known professionally as Lana Del Rey, is an American singer and songwriter. Her music is noted for its cinematic quality and exploration of tragic romance, glamour, and melancholia, containing references to contemporary pop culture and 1950s and 1960s Americana. She is the recipient of various accolades, including two Brit Awards, two MTV Europe Music Awards, a Satellite Award, and has been nominated for six Grammy Awards and one Golden Globe Award. She also has been recognized with the Variety's Decade Award at the Variety Hitmakers Awards for being regarded as one of the most influential singer-songwriters of the 21st century.
         Raised in upstate New York, Del Rey moved to New York City in 2005 to pursue a music career. After numerous projects, including her self-titled debut studio album, Del Rey's breakthrough came in 2011 with the viral success of her single "Video Games"; she subsequently signed a recording contract with Polydor and Interscope. She achieved critical and commercial success with her second album, Born to Die(2012), which contained the sleeper hit "Summertime Sadness". Del Rey's third album, Ultraviolence(2014), featured greater use of guitar-driven instrumentation and debuted atop the U.S. Billboard 200. Her fourth and fifth albums, Honeymoon(2015) and Lust for Life(2017), saw a return to the stylistic traditions of her earlier releases, while her critically acclaimed sixth album, Norman Fucking Rockwell!(2019), explored soft rock. Del Rey followed this with the albums Chemtrails over the Country Club and Blue Banisters, both in 2021.
          Del Rey has collaborated on soundtracks for visual media; in 2013, she wrote and starred in the critically acclaimed musical short Tropico, and performed "Young and Beautiful" for the romantic drama The Great Gatsby. In 2014, she recorded "Once Upon a Dream" for the dark fantasy adventure film Maleficent and the self-titled theme song for the biopic Big Eyes. Del Rey collaborated with Ariana Grande and Miley Cyrus on "Don't Call Me Angel" for the action comedy Charlie's Angels(2019), which peaked at number 13 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. Outside of music, Del Rey published the poetry and photography collection Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass(2020).
           "Dark Paradise" is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey for her second studio album, Born to Die (2012). It was written by Lana Del Rey and Rick Nowels, while production was handled by Emile Haynie. Nowels and Devrim Karaoglu produced the radio mix of the song. The song was released on March 1, 2013, by Universal and Vertigo Records, as the sixth and final single from Born to Die.
         The song received mainly mixed reviews from critics, many criticizing her melodramatic performance, also with the repetition of production and lyrical content. However, many believed the attraction of the criticism proved it as a highlight. Noticeably less successful than other singles from the album, "Dark Paradise" managed to gain some commercial success in Central Europe, becoming a top five hit on Polish airplay. It was also featured in an episode of The Originals, a spin-off of The Vampire Diaries.
         The song was recorded by psychobilly band Tiger Army, released in 2018 on the EP of the same name.
All my friends tell me I should move on
I'm lying in the ocean, singing your song
Ahh
That's how you sang it
 
Loving you forever can't be wrong
Even though you're not here, won't move on
Ahh
That's how we played it
 
And there's no remedy for memory, your face is like a melody
It won't leave my head
Your soul is haunting me and telling me that everything is fine
But I wish I was dead
 
Every time I close my eyes, it's like a dark paradise
No one compares to you
I'm scared that you won't be waiting on the other side
Every time I close my eyes, it's like a dark paradise
No one compares to you
I'm scared that you won't be waiting on the other side
 
All my friends ask me why I stay strong
Tell 'em when you find true love, it lives on
Ahh
That's why I stay here
 
And there's no remedy for memory, your face is like a melody
It won't leave my head
Your soul is haunting me and telling me that everything is fine
But I wish I was dead
 
Every time I close my eyes, it's like a dark paradise
No one compares to you
I'm scared that you won't be waiting on the other side
Every time I close my eyes, it's like a dark paradise
No one compares to you
But there's no you, except in my dreams tonight
 
Oh-oh-oh-oh-hah-hah-hah-hah
I don't want to wake up from this tonight
Oh-oh-oh-oh-hah-hah-hah-hah
I don't want to wake up from this tonight
There's no relief, I see you in my sleep
And everybody's rushing me, but I can feel you touching me
There's no release, I feel you in my dreams
Telling me I'm fine
 
Every time I close my eyes, it's like a dark paradise
No one compares to you
I'm scared that you won't be waiting on the other side
Every time I close my eyes, it's like a dark paradise
No one compares to you
But there's no you, except in my dreams tonight
 
Oh-oh-oh-oh-hah-hah-hah-hah
I don't want to wake up from this tonight
Oh-oh-oh-oh-hah-hah-hah-hah
I don't want to wake up from this tonight.