YESTERME YESTERYOU YESTERDAY

STEVIE WONDER
SONGWRITERS: BRYAN WELLS & RONALD N. MILLER
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: MY CHERIE AMOUR
LABEL: TAMLA RECORDS
GENRE: SOUL MUSIC
YEAR: 1969
 
        Stevland Hardaway Morris(born May 13, 1950), known professionally as Stevie Wonder, is an American singer, songwriter, musician and record producer. Wonder is credited as a pioneer and influence by musicians across a range of genres that includes rhythm and blues, pop, soul, gospel, funk, and jazz. A virtual one-man band, his use of synthesizers and other electronic musical instruments during the 1970s reshaped the conventions of R&B. He also helped drive the genre into the album era, crafting his LPs as cohesive, consistent socially conscious statements with complex compositions.
          Blind since shortly after his birth, Wonder was a child prodigy who signed with Motown's Tamla label at the age of 11, where he was given the professional name Little Stevie Wonder. In 1963, the single "Fingertips" was a number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 when Wonder was 13, making him the youngest artist ever to top the chart. Wonder's critical success was at its peak in the 1970s. His "classic period" began in 1972 with the releases of Music of My Mind and Talking Book, the latter featuring "Superstition", which is one of the most distinctive and famous examples of the sound of the Hohner Clavinet keyboard. His works Innervisions(1973), Fulfillingness' First Finale(1974) and Songs in the Key of Life(1976) all won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, making him the tied-record holder for the most Album of the Year wins, with three. He is also the only artist to have won the award with three consecutive album releases.
         His "classic period", which culminated in 1976, was marked by his funky keyboard style, personal control of production, and use of integrated series of songs to make concept albums. In 1979, Wonder used Computer Music Inc.'s early music sampler, the Melodian, on his soundtrack album Stevie Wonder's Journey Through "The Secret Life of Plants". This was his first digital recording and one of the earliest popular albums to use the technology, which Wonder used for all subsequent recordings.
    Wonder is one of the world's best-selling musicians, with sales of over 100 million records worldwide. He has won 25 Grammy Awards(the most by a solo artist) and one Academy Award(Best Original Song, for the 1984 film The Woman in Red). Wonder has been inducted into the Rhythm and Blues Music Hall of Fame, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Songwriters Hall of Fame. He is also noted for his work as an activist for political causes, including his 1980 campaign to make Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a federal holiday in the U.S. In 2009, he was named a United Nations Messenger of Peace, and in 2014, he was honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
          My Cherie Amour is an album by American singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder released on the Tamla (Motown) label on August 29, 1969, his eleventh studio album. The album yielded a couple of Top 10 hits in the Billboard Hot 100, including the title track(#4) and "Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday" (#7), as well as Wonder's takes on the 1967 hit "Light My Fire" by The Doors, "Hello, Young Lovers" from The King and I and "The Shadow of Your Smile" from the 1965 film The Sandpiper. It reached #12 in the UK album chart and #34 in the Billboard 200 album charts.
Yester-me
Yester-you
Yesterday
Ooh, ooh
 
What happened to
The world we knew
When we would dream and scheme
And while the time away
Yester-me
Yester-you
Yesterday
Ooh, ooh
 
Mm, yeah
Where did it go? (Where did it go?)
That yester-glow
When we could feel
The wheel of life turn our way
Yester-me
Yester-you
Yesterday
Ooh, ooh
 
I had a dream so did you
Life was warm and love was true
Two kids who followed all the rules
Yester-fools and now
Now it seems (now it seems)
Those yester-dreams
Were just a cruel
And foolish game we used to play
Yester-me
Yester-you
Yesterday
Ooh, ooh
 
When I recall what we had
I feel lost
I feel sad
With nothing but
The memory of yester-love
And now, now it seems (now it seems)
Those yester-dreams
Were just a cruel
And foolish game we had to play
Yester-me
Yester-you
Yesterday
Mm, mm, yeah (ooh, ooh)
 
Yester-me
Yester-you
Yesterday
Ooh, ooh
Sing it with me
 
Yester-me
Yester-you
Yesterday
 
Ooh, ooh
One more time
Yester-me.

SAY YOU SAY ME

LIONEL RICHIE
SONGWRITER: WILLIE NELSON
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: DANCING ON THE CEILING
LABEL: MOTOWN RECORDS
GENRE: R & B
YEAR: 1986
 
           Lionel Brockman Richie Jr.(born June 20, 1949) is an American singer, songwriter, musician and record producer. He rose to fame in the 1970s as a songwriter and the co-lead singer of funk band the Commodores; writing and recording the hit singles "Easy", "Sail On", "Three Times a Lady" and "Still", with the group before his departure. In 1980, he wrote and produced the US Billboard Hot 100 number one single "Lady" for Kenny Rogers. The following year, he wrote and produced the single "Endless Love", which he recorded as a duet with Diana Ross; it remains among the top 20 bestselling singles of all time, and the biggest career hit for both artists. In 1982, he officially launched his solo career with the album Lionel Richie, which sold over four million copies and spawned the singles "You Are" , "My Love", and the number one single "Truly".
          His second album, Can't Slow Down(1983), reached number one on the US Billboard 200 chart and sold over 20 million copies worldwide, becoming one of the best-selling albums of all time; and spawned the number one singles "All Night Long (All Night)" and "Hello". He then co-wrote the 1985 charity single "We Are the World" with Michael Jackson, which sold over 20 million copies. His third album, Dancing on the Ceiling(1986), spawned the number one single "Say You, Say Me" (from the 1985 film White Nights) and the Nº 2 hit title track. From 1986 to 1996, Richie took a break from recording; he has since then released seven studio albums. In 2018, he joined the singing competition American Idol, to serve as a judge.
           During his solo career, Richie became one of the most successful balladeers of the 1980s, and has sold over 100 million records worldwide, making him one of the world's best-selling artists of all time. He has won four Grammy Awards, including Song of the Year for "We Are the World", and Album of the Year for Can't Slow Down. "Say You, Say Me" won both the Academy Award and the Golden Globe award for best original song from a film. In 2016, Richie received the Songwriters Hall of Fame's highest honor, the Johnny Mercer Award. In 2022, he will be inducted into the Black Music & Entertainment Walk of Fame.
          Dancing on the Ceiling is the third solo studio album by American singer Lionel Richie, released on July 15, 1986. The album was originally to be titled Say You, Say Me, after the Academy Award-winning track of the same name, but it was renamed to a different track's title after Richie rewrote several songs on the album. The album was released to generally positive reviews and it made Nº 1 on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 4 million copies. The album was Richie’s second with session guitarist Carlos Rios. Following this album's release, Richie went on a long hiatus, not releasing an album of entirely new material for another ten years.
Say you, say me say it for always
That's the way it should be
Say you, say me say it together
Naturally
 
I had a dream I had an awesome dream
People in the park playing games in the dark
And what they played was a masquerade
And from behind of walls of doubt a voice was crying out
 
Say you, say me it for always
That's the way it should be
Say you, say me say it together
Naturally
 
As we go down life's lonesome highway
Seems the hardest thing to do is to find a friend or two
That helping hand
Some one who understands
That when you feel you've lost your way
You've got some one there to say I'll show you
 
Say you, say me it for always
That's the way it should be
Say you, say me say it together
Naturally
 
So you think you know the answers, Oh no
Well the whole world has got you dancing
That's right, I'm telling you
It's time to start believing oh yes
Believing who you are
You are a shining star
 
Say you, say me it for always
Oh that's the way it should be
Say you, say me say it together
Naturally
Say it together, naturally.

DEIXA CHOVER

GUILHERME ARANTES
COMPOSITOR: GUILHERME ARANTES
PAÍS: BRASIL
ÁLBUM: AMANHÃ
GRAVADORA: ELEKTRA RECORDS
GÊNERO: MPB
ANO: 1983
 
          Guilherme Arantes(São Paulo, 28 de julho de 1953) é um cantor e compositor brasileiro.
      É um dos poucos pianistas brasileiros a integrar o hall da fama da secular fabricante teuto-americana de pianos Steinway & Sons, estando em companhia de nomes como Guiomar Novaes, Franz Liszt, George Gershwin e Duke Ellington.
       Guilherme contribuiu decisivamente também para o surgimento do fenômeno new wave no Brasil, em 1981, assinando aquela que é considerada a primeira música do gênero no país: "Perdidos na Selva".
     É reconhecido como um grande hitmaker, emplacando sucessos na sua própria voz e nas de inúmeros outros artistas tais como Caetano Veloso, Maria Bethânia, Nando Reis, Elis Regina, Roberto Carlos, Belchior, Gal Costa e MPB4.
        Tem influenciado artistas das gerações mais recentes da música brasileira, tais como Mano Brown, Vanessa da Mata, Marcelo Jeneci, Tulipa Ruiz, Curumin, Céu e Bruna Caram.
          Na década de 1980, chegou a bater recorde de arrecadação de direitos autorais, superando nomes como Caetano Veloso, Chico Buarque e Gilberto Gil, além de ter colocado 12 músicas em primeiro lugar nas paradas do sucesso. Também nos anos 1980, recebeu elogios de Tom Jobim.(...)
Certos dias de chuva
Nem é bom sair de casa, agitar
É melhor dormir
Se você tentou e não aconteceu... valeu!
Infelizmente nem tudo é
Exatamente como a gente quer
As pessoas sempre têm chance de jogar
De novo e errar
Ver o que convém
Receber alguém
No seu coração... ou não
Infelizmente nem tudo é
Exatamente como a gente quer
Deixa chover ô ô ô
Deixa a chuva molhar
Dentro do peito tem um fogo ardendo
Que nuca vai se apagar
Deixa chover
Deixa a chuva molhar
Dentro do peito tem um fogo ardendo
Que nunca, nada,
Nada vai apagar.

SANFONA BRANCA

BENITO DI PAULA
COMPOSITOR: BENITO DI PAULA
PAÍS: BRASIL
ÁLBUM: BENITO DI PAULA
GRAVADORA: EMI MUSIC BRASIL LTDA.
GÊNERO: BREGA
ANO: 1975
 
            Uday Vellozo (Nova Friburgo, 28 de novembro de 1941), mais conhecido por seu nome artístico Benito di Paula, é um cantor, compositor, pianista e escritor brasileiro. É conhecido pelo seu samba característico que começou ainda quando era jovem e cantava em hotéis e boates no Rio de Janeiro, onde não tocava um gênero em específico. Foi convidado por um amigo a tocar em Santos, onde veio a levar a sua carreira no Estado de São Paulo.
          Fixou moradia e formou família em São Paulo, onde desenvolveu sua carreira, tornando-se o grande símbolo do Samba Paulista. Entre os anos 70 e 80 obteve grande fama, chegando nos dias de hoje a ter vendido 50 milhões de discos, sendo o 5º maior vendedor de discos do Brasil. Além do Brasil, vendeu discos em outros países, gravados em idiomas como espanhol, francês, italiano, finlandês, alemão e outros, com um total de 4 milhões de discos vendidos na Europa. Possui mais de 35 discos gravados, tendo parte importante de sua obra sido relançada em CD, devido ao seu tão grande êxito.
Aquela sanfona branca
Aquele chapéu de couro
É quem meu povo proclama
Luiz Gonzaga de ouro
 
Aquela sanfona branca
Aquele chapéu de couro
É quem o meu povo proclama
Luiz Gonzaga de ouro
 
Aquele tom nordestino
A voz sai do coração
É ele o rei do baião, é Luiz
É cantador do sertão
 
É filho de Januário
É quem canta o Juazeiro
É festa, é povo, Luiz alegria
Luiz Gonzaga é poesia
 
Aquela sanfona branca
Aquele chapéu de couro
É quem meu povo proclama
Luiz Gonzaga de ouro
 
Aquela sanfona branca
Aquele chapéu de couro
É quem o meu povo proclama
Luiz Gonzaga de ouro
 
Aquele tom nordestino
A voz sai do coração
É ele o rei do baião, é Luiz
É cantador do sertão
 
É filho de Januário
É quem canta o Juazeiro
É festa, é povo, Luiz alegria
Luiz Gonzaga é poesia
 
Aquela sanfona branca
Aquele chapéu de couro
É quem o meu povo proclama
Luiz Gonzaga de ouro
 
Aquela sanfona branca
Aquele chapéu de couro
É quem o meu povo proclama
Luiz Gonzaga de ouro
 
Aquela sanfona branca
Aquele...