HISTORIA DE UN AMOR

LUZ CASAL
COMPOSITOR: CARLOS ELETA ALMARAN
PAIS: ESPAÑA
ÁLBUM: LA PASIÓN
DISCOGRÁFICA: PARLOPHONE SPAIN
GÉNERO: POP
AÑO: 2009
 
      María Luz Casal Paz(Boimorto, La Coruña, 11 de noviembre de 1958) es una cantante española de pop-rock, una de las solistas más valoradas de la música popular de ese país. Tras sus éxitos dentro del país en la década de los 80, logró fama internacional, especialmente en Francia, sobre todo tras incluirse dos de sus temas en la película Tacones lejanos, de Pedro Almodóvar. Las ventas de sus discos ascienden a más de 5 millones de ejemplares
         Luz Casal, hija única de José Casal y Matilde Paz, nació en el pequeño municipio gallego de Boimorto, en la provincia de La Coruña, el 11 de noviembre de 1958. Sus padres se trasladaron a vivir a Asturias cuando Luz contaba con tan solo seis meses de edad. En Avilés estudia en el colegio Paula Frassinetti, de la Congregación de las Hermanas de Santa Dorotea. Después la familia se va a vivir a Gijón donde, ante cincuenta personas, Luz actúa por primera vez en público. Estudia piano, solfeo y ballet y forma parte de un grupo de rock llamado Los Fannys que hacía versiones de temas de otros artistas, y de otro con el que viaja por Asturias, León y Galicia. No obstante, siempre deseosa de cantar como solista, se interesa por el canto lírico y estudia la técnica del bel canto. En 1977, para proseguir su carrera en el mundo de la música, y tras conseguir convencer a sus padres, se muda a Madrid, donde graba una maqueta, La guapa, y recorre varias compañías discográficas hasta que una productora independiente le hace una prueba para cantar coros y consigue así entrar en el mundo de la música profesional. Participa en los coros de las grabaciones de varios cantantes de la compañía y acompaña a Juan Pardo en directo con el mismo cometido. Comienza a escribir sus propias canciones e incluso graba diez de ellas, que nunca saldrán publicadas. En esos años hace su única incursión teatral, dando vida a la cupletista Raquel Meller en el musical Las Divinas, representado en el Teatro Reina Victoria de Madrid. En 1980 publica con una multinacional su primer sencillo, El ascensor, un tema con ciertos aires reggae como homenaje a Bob Marley. Participa en festivales de distintos países y recibe clases de baile de maestros como Karen Taft, Arnold Taraborelli, Lindsay Kemp, Merche Esmeralda o Goyo Montero.
         En 1981, buscando un menor control sobre su vida privada, ficha por la discográfica Zafiro y participa en el disco En directo, del grupo Leño. A comienzos de 1982 comienza la grabación, en Madrid, Bruselas y Ámsterdam, de su primer álbum, que sería estrenado en septiembre de ese mismo año con el nombre de Luz. Producido por Carlos Narea, incluye temas compuestos por ella misma y otros de Ramoncín, Roque Narvaja, Noel Soto o Narea. Graba su primer programa de televisión, en directo, y participa en un disco-libro del poeta Jaime Noguerol. En 1983 sale su primer vídeo-clip, del tema No aguanto más, comienzan sus actuaciones en vivo y participa en la gira El rock de una noche de verano, junto con Miguel Ríos y Leño, con los que recorre 35 ciudades de toda España. En 1984 publica su segundo álbum, Los ojos del gato, grabado en España, Bélgica y Alemania. Algunos de sus temas, de Ramoncín e Hilario Camacho, entre otros, comienzan a escucharse en Europa. Luz sigue estudiando: piano, conjunto coral e interpretación. Luz III, editado en 1985, contenía un tema que se haría muy popular, Rufino, de Carmen Santonja (integrante de Vainica Doble). Ese mismo año actúa en un festival en Checoslovaquia, junto a artistas de otros países; Luz recuerda el impacto que le supuso escuchar sus temas No aguanto más y Ciudad sin ley tocados por una orquesta con metales. En 1986 ofrece más de noventa conciertos y actúa de nuevo en la televisión checoslovaca. En Alemania graba el tema The water is life, para una campaña ecologista, con estrellas como David Knopfler, ex componente de Dire Straits y hermano del que fuera su líder, compositor y guitarrista Mark Knopfler.
       La Pasión es el duodécimo disco de la cantante española Luz Casal, puesto a la venta en 2009. Este álbum representa un trabajo totalmente diferente a todos sus discos anteriores, puesto que está formado íntegramente por boleros y canciones hispanoamericanas compuestas entre los años 40 y 70.
Ya no estás más a mi lado, corazón
En el alma solo tengo soledad
Y si ya no puedo verte
¿Por qué Dios me hizo quererte
Para hacerme sufrir más?
 
Siempre fuiste la razón de mi existir
Adorarte para mí fue religión
Y en tus besos yo encontraba
El calor que me brindaba
El amor y la pasión
 
Es la historia de un amor
Como no hay otro igual
Que me hizo comprender
Todo el bien, todo el mal
Que le dio luz a mi vida
Apagándola después
Ay, qué vida tan oscura
Sin tu amor no viviré
 
Ya no estás más a mi lado, corazón
En el alma solo tengo soledad
Y si ya no puedo verte
¿Por qué Dios me hizo quererte
Para hacerme sufrir más?
 
Es la historia de un amor
Como no hay otro igual
Que me hizo comprender
Todo el bien, todo el mal
Que le dio luz a mi vida
Apagándola después
Ay, qué vida tan oscura
Sin tu amor no viviré
 
Ya no estás más a mi lado, corazón
En el alma solo tengo soledad
Y si ya no puedo verte
¿Por qué Dios me hizo quererte
Para hacerme sufrir más?

ALMOST OVER YOU

SHEENA EASTON
SONGWRITER: Jennifer K. Kimball & Cindy Diane Richardson
COUNTRY: SCOTLAND
ALBUM: BEST KEPT SECRET
LABEL: ONE WAY RECORDS
GENRE: R & B
YEAR: 1983
 
         Sheena Shirley Easton(née Orr; born 27 April 1959) is a Scottish singer and actress. Easton came into the public eye in an episode of the first British musical reality television programme The Big Time: Pop Singer, which recorded her attempts to gain a record contract and her eventual signing with EMI Records.
         Easton's first two singles, "Modern Girl" and "9 to 5", both entered the UK Top Ten. She became one of the most successful British female performers of the 1980s.
         A six-time Grammy nominee in the US, Easton is a two-time Grammy Award winner, winning Best New Artist in 1982 and Best Mexican-American Performance in 1985, for her duet with Luis Miguel on the song "Me Gustas Tal Como Eres". She has received five US Gold albums and one US Platinum album. She has recorded 15 studio albums, released 45 singles total worldwide, and had 20 consecutive US singles, including 15 US Top 40 singles, seven US Top Tens and one US #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 between 1981 and 1991. She had 25 top 40 hits internationally. In Canada, Easton scored three gold and two platinum albums. She has sold over 30 million records worldwide.
Easton became the first and only recording artist in Billboard history to have a top 5 hit on each of Billboard's primary singles charts: "Morning Train (Nine to Five)" (pop and AC), "We've Got Tonight" with Kenny Rogers(country and AC), and "Sugar Walls" (R&B and dance).
        Easton's other hits include the James Bond theme "For Your Eyes Only", "Strut", "U Got the Look" and "The Arms of Orion" with Prince, "The Lover in Me", and "What Comes Naturally". She has worked with prominent vocalists and producers, such as Prince, Christopher Neil, Kenny Rogers, David Foster, Luis Miguel, L.A. Reid & Babyface, Patrice Rushen, and Nile Rodgers.
        Best Kept Secret is the fourth album by Scottish singer Sheena Easton. It was released in 1983 on EMI Records.
            Easton's first album to be recorded entirely in the United States, Best Kept Secret was produced by Greg Mathieson, Jay Graydon, and Trevor Veitch. Easton had planned to collaborate again with Christopher Neil, the London-based producer of her previous three albums, but it had eventuated that she and Neil had disparate ideas regarding her new album's material and style. Easton had also hoped that David Foster, who had produced her interim hit duet with Kenny Rogers, "We've Got Tonight", would produce some solo tracks for her, but Foster's schedule did not permit this.
       The songs on Best Kept Secret alternated between dance tracks in the Eurodisco style of the recent Laura Branigan hit "Gloria"— which Mathieson/Graydon/Veitch had been responsible for— and ballads. The album's lead single was the dance track "Telefone (Long Distance Love Affair)" which became Easton's third solo hit to reach the US Top Ten with a Nº 9 peak on the Billboard Hot 100 and was Grammy nominated. The second single was the ballad "Almost Over You" (Nº 25) and another rock track "Devil in a Fast Car" was subsequently issued as a single to reach Nº 79.
I saw an old friend of ours today
She asked about you, I didn't quite know what to say
Heard you've been making the rounds 'round here
While I've been trying to make tears disappear
 
Now I'm almost over you
I've almost shook these blues
So when you come back around
After painting the town
You'll see I'm almost over you
 
You're such a sly one with your cold, cold heart
Maybe leaving came easy, but it tore me apart
"Time heals all wounds", they say, and I should know
'Cause it seems like forever, but I'm letting you go
 
Now I'm almost over you
I've almost shook these blues
So when you come back around
After painting the town
You'll see I'm almost over you
 
I can forgive you and soon I'll forget all my shattered dreams
Although you left me with nothing to show, full of misery
 
Now I'm almost over you
I've almost shook these blues
So when you come back around
After painting the town
You'll see I'm almost over you
 
When you come back around
After painting the town
You'll see I'm almost over you. 

ALWAYS AND FOREVER

KENNY ROGERS
SONGWRITER: RODNEY LYNN TEMPERTON
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: VOTE FOR LOVE
LABEL: QVC
GENRE: COUNTRY MUSIC
YEAR: 1996
 
       Kenneth Ray Rogers(August 21, 1938– March 20, 2020) was an American singer, songwriter, and actor. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2013. Rogers was particularly popular with country audiences but also charted more than 120 hit singles across various genres, topping the country and pop album charts for more than 200 individual weeks in the United States alone. He sold more than 100 million records worldwide during his lifetime, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. His fame and career spanned multiple genres: jazz, folk, pop, rock, and country. He remade his career and was one of the most successful cross-over artists of all time.
       In the late 1950s, Rogers began his recording career with the Houston-based group the Scholars, who first released "The Poor Little Doggie". After some solo releases, including 1958's "That Crazy Feeling", Rogers then joined a group with the jazz singer Bobby Doyle. In 1966, he became a member of the folk ensemble the New Christy Minstrels, playing double bass and bass guitar as well as singing. In 1967, he and several members of the New Christy Minstrels left to found the group the First Edition, with whom he scored his first major hit, "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)", a psychedelic rock song which peaked at number five on the Billboard charts. As Rogers took an increased leadership role in the First Edition following the success of 1969's "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town", the band gradually changed styles to a more country feel. The band broke up in 1975–76, and Rogers embarked on a long and successful solo career, which included several successful collaborations, including duets with singers Dottie West, Dolly Parton, and Sheena Easton, and a songwriting partnership with Lionel Richie. His signature song, 1978's "The Gambler", was a crossover hit that won him a Grammy Award in 1980 and was selected in 2018 for preservation in the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress. He developed the Gambler persona into a character for a successful series of television films starting with 1980's Emmy-nominated Kenny Rogers as The Gambler.
       Vote for Love is a 1996 album by Kenny Rogers released exclusively for sale on QVC. It was later made available in retail stores under the title Always & Forever.
Always and forever, each moment with you
It's just like a dream to me that somehow came true
And I know tomorrow will still be the same
Cos we got a life of love that won't ever change.
 
Every day lend me your own special way
Melt my heart away with a smile
Take time to tell me you really care
And we'll share tomorrow together.
 
There's always be sunshine when I look at you
It's something I can't explain just the things that you do
If you get lonely, call me and take
A second to give to me the magic you make.
 
Every day ...
I'll always love you ...forever
Every day ...
Baby, baby, baby, I'll love you forever
I'll always love you forever
Together, forever.

YES SIR, I CAN BOOGIE

BACCARA
SONGWRITERS: ROLF SOJA & FRANK DOSTAL
COUNTRY: SPAIN
ALBUM: BACCARA
LABEL: RCA RECORDS
GENRE: DISCO
YEAR: 1977
 
        Baccara was a female vocal duo formed in 1977 by Spanish artists Mayte Mateos (born 7 February 1951) and María Mendiola (4 April 1952 – 11 September 2021). The duo rapidly achieved international success with their debut single "Yes Sir, I Can Boogie", which reached number one across much of Europe and became the best-selling single of all time by a female group, eventually selling more than 18 million copies worldwide. A successful follow-up single ("Sorry, I'm a Lady") and European tour led to a number of album releases, numerous television appearances and the duo's selection to represent Luxembourg in the Eurovision Song Contest 1978.
      Despite a substantial following in Spain, Germany and Japan, by 1981 their blend of disco, pop and Spanish folk music was no longer fashionable, and by 1983 Mateos and Mendiola were both working on solo projects. Achieving little success as solo artists, the two formed duos of their own: separate incarnations of the original Baccara appeared during the middle of the decade, with Mendiola fronting New Baccara and Mateos keeping the duo's original name. During the 1990s, New Baccara reverted to Baccara and as a consequence both Mateos and Mendiola headed different duos with the same name. Both principals subsequently had prolonged but separate legacy careers based on nostalgia and their earlier fame.
         Mendiola's Baccara has seen more international recognition, releasing a string of Hi-NRG club hits such as "Fantasy Boy" and "Touch Me" in the late 1980s and the later UK club hit "Wind Beneath My Wings". Mateos' Baccara has released few new recordings, but has remained in demand for television and live appearances in countries such as Spain and Germany, where the original Baccara developed a loyal fan base, performing the duo's back-catalogue and modernised versions of traditional Spanish songs.
          Baccara is the debut studio album by Spanish duo Baccara, first released on RCA Victor in Germany in 1977. It contains the European hit singles "Yes Sir, I Can Boogie" and "Sorry, I'm a Lady".
          The rights to the RCA-Victor back catalogue are currently held by Sony BMG Music Entertainment - the original Baccara album in its entirety remains unreleased on compact disc.
        There is an alternative cover for the album from Scandinavia featuring the girls standing with a black background. Some editions of this album feature a limited edition poster. The album was re-released in Germany in 1982 and featured an entirely different picture sleeve.
Mister
Your eyes are full of hesitation
Sure makes me wonder
If you know what your looking for
 
Umm, baby I wan't to keep my reputation
I'm a sensation
You try me once you'll beg for more
 
Oooohh! Yes sir, I can boogie
But I need a certain song
I can boogie, boogie woogie all night long
 
Yes sir, I can boogie
If you stay, you can't go wrong
I can boogie, boogie woogie all night long
 
No sir
I don't feel very much like talking
No neither walking
You wanna know if I can dance
 
Yes sir, already told you in the first verse and in the chorus
But I will give you one more chance
 
Ooohh! Yes sir, I can boogie
But I need a certain song
I can boogie, boogie woogie all night long
Yes sir, I can boogie
If you stay, you can't go wrong
I can boogie, boogie woogie all night long
 
Yes sir, I can boogie
If you stay, you can't go wrong
I can boogie, boogie woogie all night long
 
Yes sir, I can boogie
But I need a certain song
I can boogie, boogie woogie all night long
Yes sir, I can boogie
If you stay you can't go wrong
I can boogie, boogie woogie all night long
 
Yes sir, I can boogie
If you stay you can't go wrong
I can boogie, boogie woogie all night long
 
Yes sir, I can boogie
If you stay you can't go wrong
I can boogie, boogie woogie all night long.