LA NUOVA STELLA DI BROADWAY

CESARE CREMONINI
compositore: cesare cremonini
paese: italia
album: la teoria dei colori
etichetta: universal music
genere: pop
anno: 2012
 
     Cesare Cremonini(Bologna, 27 marzo 1980) è un cantautore, attore e scrittore italiano.
         È stato il frontman del gruppo italiano Lùnapop, che ha riscosso un grandissimo successo con l'album... Squérez?(1999) vendendo oltre un milione e mezzo di copie. Nel 2002 il cantante ha annunciato ufficialmente lo scioglimento del gruppo, proseguendo con successo nella sua carriera solista e pubblicando, nel corso degli anni, sette album in studio, due dal vivo e tre raccolte. Molti i premi ricevuti tra cui due Premi Lunezia, cinque Music Awards, un Nastro d'argento alla migliore canzone originale e un primo posto al Festivalbar.
        La teoria dei colori è il quarto album in studio del cantautore italiano Cesare Cremonini, pubblicato il 22 maggio 2012 sotto etichetta Tre Cuori e distribuito da Universal Music. Si tratta del suo primo album dopo la fine di un contratto discografico decennale con Warner Music Italy.
     Il disco è musicalmente influenzato dal rock inglese e dal cantautorato italiano. Da un punto di vista tematico, Cremonini ha invece definito l'album come un «manuale di emozioni», aggiungendo che «l'amore è un punto essenziale dell'album […] ma si sporca sempre, comunque, di vino, di vita, di lacrime, di notti insonni, di esperienze nuove, viaggi[…]. Non è l'amore che sto vivendo in un dato momento, il sottotesto è molto più ampio, è la realtà che viviamo. In questo senso La teoria dei colori è anche un disco di reazione a quanto forte e invasiva è la realtà che mi circonda».
       A maggio 2013, l'album riceve la certificazione FIMI disco di platino per aver venduto oltre 60.000 copie. 
Lui era un businessman con un'idea in testa
Lei ballerina di jazz
Leggeva William Blake vicino a una finestra
Lui beveva caffè
Guardando quelle gambe muoversi pensò: "È una stella!"
Pensava a Fred Astaire
 
E chi non ha mai visto nascere una Dea
E chi non ha mai visto nascere una Dea
Non lo sa che cos'è la felicità
 
Lui, garofano rosso e parole
Una vecchia Cabriolet
Lei, vestita come la Rogers
Fulmini e saette lassù
Nel cielo blu, il loro nome
Argento fra le stelle
 
New York, New York
È una scommessa d'amore
Tu chiamami e ti vestirò
Come una stella di Broadway
 
New York, New York
È una scommessa d'amore
Tu chiamami e ti vestirò
Come una stella di...
 
Lui si svegliò senza lei, nudo nella tempesta
Là fuori Union Square
Entrava luce al neon dal vetro di una finestra
L'odore del caffè
Guardando quelle gambe muoversi pensò: "È una stella!"
Pensava a Fred Astaire
 
E chi non ha mai visto nascere una Dea
Non lo sa che cos'è la felicità
 
Lui, garofano rosso e parole
Una vecchia Cabriolet
Lei, vestita come la Rogers
Fulmini e saette lassù
Nel cielo blu, il loro nome
Argento fra le stelle
 
New York, New York
È una scommessa d'amore
Tu chiamami e ti vestirò
Come una stella di Broadway
 
New York, New York
È una scommessa d'amore
Tu chiamami e ti vestirò
 
Come una stella di...
New York, New York
 
È una scommessa d'amore
Tu chiamami e ti vestirò
Come una stella di Broadway
 
New York, New York
È una scommessa d'amore
Tu chiamami e ti vestirò
Come una stella di...

ONE OF THESE NIGHTS

THE EAGLES
SONGWRITERS: DON HENLEY y GLENN FREY
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: ONE OF THIS NIGHTS
LABEL: ASYLUM
GENRE: ROCK
YEAR: 1975
 
       The Eagles are an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1971. With five number-one singles and six number-one albums, six Grammy Awards and five American Music Awards, the Eagles were one of the most successful musical acts of the 1970s in North America. Founding members Glenn Frey(guitars, vocals), Don Henley(drums, vocals), Bernie Leadon (guitars, vocals), and Randy Meisner(bass guitar, vocals) were recruited by Linda Ronstadt as band members, some touring with her, and all playing on her third solo album, before venturing out on their own on David Geffen's new Asylum Records label.
       Their debut album, Eagles(1972), spawned two top-20 singles in the US and Canada: "Take It Easy" and "Witchy Woman". The next year's follow-up album, Desperado, peaked at only number 41 in the US, although the song "Desperado" became a popular track. In 1974, guitarist Don Felder joined, and On the Border produced the top-40 hit "Already Gone" and the Eagles' first number-one song in the US and Canada, "Best of My Love", which made the top 15 in Australia, their first hit overseas. In 1975, the album One of These Nights became their first number-one album in the US and a top-10 album in many countries. It included the US number-one hit "One of These Nights", which was their first top-10 hit outside of North America, and US top-five songs "Lyin' Eyes" and "Take It to the Limit". Also in 1975, guitarist and vocalist Joe Walsh replaced Leadon.
     Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975)(1976) is the best-selling album in the United States, with 38million sold, and primed the public for the late 1976 release of Hotel California, which would sell more than 26million copies in the US (ranking 3rd all-time for US sales), and more than 32million copies worldwide. The album yielded two number-one singles in the US and Canada, "New Kid in Town" and "Hotel California", the latter of which became their only top-10 hit in the United Kingdom, while also reaching the top 10 in New Zealand and many European countries, including number two in France.
        One of These Nights is the fourth studio album by the Eagles, released in 1975. In July that year, the record became the Eagles' first number one album on Billboard's album chart, yielding three Top 10 singles: "One of These Nights", "Lyin' Eyes" and "Take It to the Limit". Its title song is the group's second number one single on the Billboard Hot 100. The album sold four million copies and was nominated for Grammy Album of the Year. A single from the album, "Lyin' Eyes", was also nominated for Record of the Year, and won the Eagles' first Grammy for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals.
        One of These Nights is the last Eagles album to feature guitarist Bernie Leadon, who left the band after the One of These Nights tour and was replaced by Joe Walsh. The seventh track, "Visions", is the only Eagles song on which lead guitarist Don Felder sang the lead vocals, despite his desire to write and sing more songs. The album was the band's commercial breakthrough, transforming them into international superstars. They went on a worldwide tour to promote the album.
One of these nights
One of these crazy old nights
We're gonna find out, pretty mama
What turns on your lights
 
The full Moon is calling, the fever is high
And the wicked wind whispers and moans
You got your demons
And you got desires
Well, I got a few of my own
 
Oh, someone to be kind to in between the dark and the light
Oh, coming right behind you, swear I'm gonna find you
One of these nights
 
One of these dreams
One of these lost and lonely dreams, now
We're gonna find one
Oh, one that really screams
 
I've been searching for the daughter of the devil himself
I've been searching for an angel in white
I've been waiting for a woman who's a little of both
And I can feel her but she's nowhere in sight
 
Oh, loneliness will blind you
In between the wrong and the right (woah, woah)
Oh, coming right behind you, swear I'm gonna find you
One of these nights
 
One of these nights
Hm, In between the dark and the light
Coming right behind you
Swear I'm gonna find you
Get ya baby one of these nights
 
One of these nights (woah, oh, woah, oh)
One of these nights
 
I can feel it
I can feel it
One of these nights
Coming right behind you
Swear I'm gonna find you now
One of these nights
 
And it gets so dark, so dark
In the cold and lonely
One of these nights
One of these crazy, crazy, crazy nights
One of these nights
Swear I'm gonna find you
Coming right behind you now
One of these nights
(Oooh)
 
One of these nights
Ah, and I wanna say ah!
One of these nights
Yes, ah, one of these one of these
 
One of these nights
Ah, coming right behind you
Swear I'm gonna find you
 
One of these nights
One of these nights
One of these crazy old nights
One of these nights.

GOODBYE IS JUST ANOTHER WORD

LOBO
SONGWRITER: KENT LAVOIE
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: CALUMET
LABEL: BIG TREE RECORDS
GENRE: FOLK ROCK
YEAR: 1973
 
       Roland Kent LaVoie(born July 31, 1943), better known by his stage name Lobo(which is a Spanish word for wolf), is an American singer-songwriter who was successful in the 1970s, scoring several U.S. Top 10 hits including "Me and You and a Dog Named Boo", "I'd Love You to Want Me", and "Don't Expect Me to Be Your Friend". These three songs, along with "Where Were You When I Was Falling in Love", gave Lobo four chart toppers on the Easy Listening/Hot Adult Contemporary chart.
        Calumet is the third album by Lobo, released in 1973 on Big Tree Records. It was reissued in 2008 by Wounded Bird Records and includes six bonus tracks.
The album peaked at Nº 128 on the US Top LPs chart. Two of its singles were top 30 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 and top 5 hits on the Easy Listening chart. "There Ain't No Way" and its B-side "Love Me For What I Am" were minor hits on the Hot 100.
If the time should ever come
That you feel our race is run
And you're old brass bed's the only
thing that we share
If you think our ships come in
Let's just break it off my friend
Cause nothings worse than playing like you care.
 
There's nothing that's so final about leaving
Even though I know that's what you've heard
Just like forgive, forget and try again
Goodbye is just another word.
 
If you feel the time is right
And you sneak off in the night
And live out all those stories in your head
When your shiny knight goes home
And you're left there all alone
And you need a friend remember what I said.

CATHY'S CLOWN

THE EVERLY BROTHERS
SONGWRITER: DONALD I EVERLY
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: A DATE WITH THE EVERLY BROTHERS
LABEL: WARNER BROS. RECORDS
GENRE: POP ROCK
YEAR: 1960
 
         The Everly Brothers were an American rock duo, known for steel-string acoustic guitar playing and close harmony singing. Consisting of Isaac Donald "Don" Everly (February 1, 1937 – August 21, 2021) and Phillip "Phil" Everly (January 19, 1939 – January 3, 2014), the duo combined elements of rock and roll, country, and pop, becoming pioneers of country rock.
       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 promote 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.
       Long-simmering disputes with Wesley Rose, the CEO of Acuff-Rose Music, which managed the group, and a growing drug usage in the 1960s, as well as changing tastes in popular music, led to the group's decline in popularity in its native U.S., though the brothers continued to release hit singles in the U.K. and Canada and had many highly successful tours throughout the 1960s. In the early 1970s, the brothers began releasing solo recordings, and in 1973 they officially broke up. Starting in 1983, the brothers got back together and continued to perform periodically until Phil's death in 2014. Don died seven years later.
         The group was highly influential with the music of the generation that followed it. Many of the top acts of the 1960s were heavily influenced by the close-harmony singing and acoustic guitar playing of the Everly Brothers, including the Beatles, the Beach Boys, the Bee Gees, and Simon & Garfunkel. In 2015, Rolling Stone ranked the Everly Brothers Nº 1 on its list of the 20 Greatest Duos of All Time. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of the inaugural class of 1986, and into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2001. Don was inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in 2019, earning the organization's first Iconic Riff Award for his distinctive rhythm guitar intro to the Everlys' massive 1957 hit "Wake Up Little Susie".
       A Date with the Everly Brothers is the fourth studio album by American singing duo the Everly Brothers, released in 1960. It peaked at Nº 9 on the Billboard Pop albums charts and reached Nº 3 in the UK.
          The song "Love Hurts" appears here for the first time. It would subsequently be covered by numerous other artists. Other than the "Cathy's Clown"/"Always It's You" single, all of the tracks on A Date with the Everly Brothers were recorded in just four sessions during July 1960.
        Writing for Allmusic, critic Richie Unterberger wrote of the album "Although the material is not on the killer level of 'It's Everly Time', there are some very fine songs on their second Warner LP."
       The album was included in Robert Dimery's 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.
Don't want your love anymore
Don't want your kisses, that's for sure
I die each time I hear this sound
Here he comes, that's Cathy's clown
 
I gotta stand tall
You know a man can't crawl
When he knows you're tellin' lies and he hears 'em passing by
He's not a man at all
 
Don't want your love anymore
Don't want your kisses, that's for sure
I die each time I hear this sound
Here he comes, that's Cathy's clown
 
When you see me shed a tear
And you know that it's sincere
Don't you think it's kinda sad that you're treating me so bad
Or don't you even care?
 
Don't want your love anymore
Don't want your kisses, that's for sure
I die each time I hear this sound
Here he comes, that's Cathy's clown
 
That's Cathy's clown
That's Cathy's clown.