GREEN GROW THE RUSHES OH

CELTIC WOMAN

SONGWRITERS: RONNIE BARKER & RONNIE HAZLEHURST

COUNTRY: IRELAND

ALBUM: CELTIC WOMAN BELIEVE

LABEL: MANHATTAN RECORDS

GENRE: CELTIC MUSIC

YEAR: 2011

 

          Believe is the seventh studio album released by the group Celtic Woman.

       The album was released in two versions: the first a compilation of earlier songs packaged with a new song, "Princess Toyotomi", released on 25 May 2011 in Japan to promote the release of the titular film in which said track served as the theme song, the other a studio album released internationally on 24 January 2012, featuring new music. Vocalists Chloë Agnew, Lisa Kelly, Lisa Lambe, and fiddler Máiréad Nesbitt appear on both versions, while the Japanese version features former members Órla Fallon, Lynn Hilary, Méav Ní Mhaolchatha, Alex Sharpe, and Hayley Westenra.

There's not but care on every hand

In every hour that passes oh

What signifies the life of man

If it were not for the lassies oh

 

Green grow the rushes oh

Green grow the rushes oh

The sweetest hours that e'er I spent

Are spent among the lassies oh

 

The worldly race may riches chase

And riches still may fly them oh

And though at last they catch them fast

Their hearts can ne'er enjoy them oh

 

Green grow the rushes oh

Green grow the rushes oh

The sweetest hours that e'er I spent

Are spent among the lassies oh

 

The sweetest hours that e'er I spent

Are spent among the lassies oh

 

Green grow the rushes oh

Green grow the rushes oh

The sweetest hours that e'er I spent

Are spent among the lassies oh

 

Old nature swears the lovley dears

Her noblest work she classes oh

Her apprentice hand she tried on man

Then she made the lassies oh

 

Green grow the rushes oh

Green grow the rushes oh

The sweetest hours that e'er I spent

Are spent among the lassies oh

 

Green grow the rushes oh

Green grow the rushes oh

The sweetest hours that e'er I spent

Are spent among the lassies oh

Are spent among the lassies oh.

SOMETHING GOOD

JULIE ANDREWS & BILL LEE

SONGWRITER: RICHARD RODGERS & OSCAR HAMERSTEIN II

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

MOVIE: THE SOUND OF MUSIC

ALBUM: SOMETHING GOOD

GENRE: SOUNDTRACK

LABEL: 20^TH CENTURY STUDIOS

YEAR: 1965

 

     The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical drama film produced and directed by Robert Wise, and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, with Richard Haydn, Peggy Wood, Charmian Carr, and Eleanor Parker. The film is an adaptation of the 1959 stage musical, composed by Richard Rodgers, with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. The film's screenplay was written by Ernest Lehman, adapted from the stage musical's book by Lindsay and Crouse. Based on the 1949 memoir The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria von Trapp, the film is about a young Austrian postulant who, in 1938, is sent to the villa of a retired naval officer and widower to be governess to his seven children.

       Filming took place from March to September 1964 in Los Angeles and Salzburg. The Sound of Music was released on March 2, 1965, in the United States, initially as a limited roadshow theatrical release. Although initial critical response to the film was mixed, it was a major commercial success, becoming the number one box office film after four weeks, and the highest-grossing film of 1965. By November 1966, The Sound of Music had become the highest-grossing film of all-time—surpassing Gone with the Wind—and held that distinction for five years. The film was just as popular throughout the world, breaking previous box-office records in twenty-nine countries. Following an initial theatrical release that lasted four and a half years, and two successful re-releases, the film sold 283 million admissions worldwide and earned a total worldwide gross of $286 million.

       The Sound of Music received five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, Wise's second pair of both awards, the first being from the 1961 film West Side Story. The film also received two Golden Globe Awards, for Best Motion Picture and Best Actress, the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement, and the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written American Musical. In 1998, the American Film Institute(AFI) listed The Sound of Music as the fifty-fifth greatest American film of all time, and the fourth greatest film musical. In 2001, the United States Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the National Film Registry, finding it "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

Perhaps I had a wicked childhood

Perhaps I had a miserable youth

But somewhere in my wicked, miserable past

There must have been a moment of truth

 

For here you are, standing there, loving me

Whether or not you should

So somewhere in my youth or childhood

I must have done something good

 

Nothing comes from nothing

Nothing ever could

So somewhere in my youth or childhood

I must have done something good

 

For here you are, standing there, loving me

Whether or not you should

So somewhere in my youth or childhood

I must have done something good

 

Nothing comes from nothing

Nothing ever could

So somewhere in my youth

Or childhood

I must have done something

Something good.

O AMOR É UM ATO REVOLUCIONÁRIO

SANDY

COMPOSITOR: CHICO CÉSAR

PAÍS: BRASIL

ÁLBUM: O AMOR É UM ATO REVOLUCIONÁRIO

GÊNERO: POP

GRAVADORA: REDE GLOBO

ANO: 2023

 

          Sandy Leah Lima(Campinas, 28 de janeiro de 1983) é uma cantora, compositora e atriz brasileira. Durante os primeiros anos da infância, ela e seu irmão Junior Lima formaram uma dupla vocal. Sandy & Junior ganharam notoriedade após uma apresentação no programa Som Brasil, em 1989, que lhes rendeu um contrato com a PolyGram. Depois de alcançarem o sucesso como cantores mirins, os irmãos atingiram o auge comercial de sua carreira na adolescência: os álbuns Era Uma Vez... Ao Vivo(1998), As Quatro Estações(1999), Quatro Estações: O Show(2000) e Sandy & Junior(2001) venderam mais de um milhão de cópias cada, sendo que os três primeiros estão entre os álbuns mais vendidos de todos os tempos no Brasil. Os álbuns seguintes viram Sandy e Junior assumindo cada vez mais o controle criativo de seus projetos. A dupla se desfez em 2007, com o lançamento do registro ao vivo Acústico MTV. Em 2019, eles se reuniram para uma turnê que se tornou um sucesso comercial e de crítica. O nome dos irmãos também se tornou uma forte marca, com mais de 300 produtos licenciados que, até 2004, movimentaram mais de 300 milhões de reais.

        Após o fim da dupla em dezembro de 2007, Sandy passou os dois anos seguintes concentrando seus esforços na produção de sua estreia na carreira solo. Além disso, ela dedicou-se à sua vida pessoal. Em 2008, Sandy concluiu sua graduação em Letras pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas(PUC) e se casou com o músico Lucas Lima, com quem tem um filho, nascido em junho de 2014. Em 2010, ela lançou seu álbum de estreia solo, Manuscrito, que foi precedido pelo single "Pés Cansados" e certificado com platina pela Pro-Música Brasil(PMB). A turnê do álbum Manuscrito deu origem ao seu primeiro registro ao vivo, Manuscrito Ao Vivo(2011). Segundo álbum de estúdio da cantora, Sim(2013) produziu três singles e alcançou a nona posição no Brasil. Em 2016, Sandy lançou seu segundo álbum ao vivo, Meu Canto, que teve como carro-chefe a canção "Me Espera" e atingiu o topo da parada de DVDs da PMB. Em 2018, ela lançou seu terceiro álbum de estúdio, um projeto de colaborações intitulado Nós, Voz, Eles. Além do sucesso comercial, Sandy tem experimentado um maior nível de aprovação da crítica com seu trabalho solo.

O amor é um ato revolucionário

Quem vive amando, dando amor e sendo amado

Colhendo o que lhe é oferecido

E a si mesmo se coloca ofertado

Se este está nu, veste o manto sagrado

Que ao que ama, o infinito faz vestido

De Deus e os deuses, sim, é o mais querido

Mesmo no escuro, seu sentir é iluminado

 

O amor é um ato revolucionário

Por estados e religiões temido

Quem pelo amor é pertencido

A si governa e só a ele é confessado

Quem ama, ao andar cria sua estrada

Em seu voo, vê as planícies prazerosas

E no cume das montanhas alterosas

Toca em gozo a rosa viva imaculada

 

Não será jamais pelo mal tocado

Seu eu profundo não é nunca profanado

Só mesmo o tolo nega do amor o apostolado

E a seus apóstolos diz que vivem em pecado

 

O amor é um ato revolucionário

A besta humana torna em anjo apascentado

Em amoroso afia o espírito mais irado

O corpo e a alma, um no outro, todo e tudo

Quem ama fala ao mundo mesmo mudo

Seu pulso é a pulsação do universo em dança

Nas inquietações da guerra insana, a paz alcança

Quem traz a lança do amor e seu escudo

 

Não será jamais pelo mal tocado

Seu eu profundo não é nunca profanado

Só mesmo o tolo nega do amor o apostolado

E a seus apóstolos diz que vivem em pecado

 

Não será jamais pelo mal tocado

Seu eu profundo não é nunca profanado

Só mesmo o tolo nega do amor o apostolado

E a seus apóstolos diz que vivem em pecado

 

O amor é um ato revolucionário.

PUFF THE MAGIC DRAGON

PETER, PAUL & MARY

SONGWRITERS: ROBIN SPIELBERG; LEONARD LIPTON & PETER YARROW

COUNTRY: U, S. A.

ALBUM: MOVING

LABEL: WARNER RECORDS

GENRE: FOLK

YEAR: 1963

 

       Peter, Paul and Mary was an American folk group formed in New York City in 1961 during the American folk music revival phenomenon. The trio consisted of tenor Peter Yarrow, baritone Paul Stookey, and contralto Mary Travers. The group's repertoire included songs written by Yarrow and Stookey, early songs by Bob Dylan, and covers of other folk musicians. They were enormously successful in the early- and mid-1960s, with their debut album topping the charts for weeks, and helped popularize the folk music revival. After the death of Travers in 2009, Yarrow and Stookey continued to perform as a duo under their individual names.

        Mary Travers said she was influenced by Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, and the Weavers. In the documentary Peter, Paul & Mary: Carry It On — A Musical Legacy, members of the Weavers discuss how Peter, Paul and Mary took over the torch of the social commentary of folk music in the 1960s.

       The group was inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 1999. Peter, Paul and Mary received the Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2006.

         Moving is the second album by the American folk music trio Peter, Paul & Mary, released in January 1963. The third single, "Puff, the Magic Dragon," was a huge hit and a defining song for the trio, reaching #2 on the Hot 100, #1 on the Easy Listening, and #10 on the R&B Charts.

       The lead-off single, "Big Boat," failed to chart substantially, only staying on the Top 100 for two weeks, reaching #93. Cash Box described it as "an exciting, fast moving folk opus." The second single, "Settle Down (Goin' Down That Highway)," did slightly better, peaking at #56 on the Pop charts during a 6-week run; however, it did become an easy listening hit at #14.

Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea

And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee

Little Jackie Paper loved that rascal Puff

And brought him strings, and sealing wax, and other fancy stuff

 

Oh, Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea

And frolicked in the autumn mist, in a land called Honah Lee

Puff, the magic dragon, lived by the sea

And frolicked in the autumn mist, in a land called Honah Lee

 

Together they would travel on a boat with billowed sail

Jackie kept a lookout perched on Puff's gigantic tail

Noble kings and princes would bow whenever they came

Pirate ships would lower their flags when Puff roared out his name

 

Oh, Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea

And frolicked in the autumn mist, in a land called Honah Lee

Puff, the magic dragon, lived by the sea

And frolicked in the autumn mist, in a land called Honah Lee

 

A dragon lives forever, but not so little boys

Painted wings and giant's rings make way for other toys

One gray night it happened, Jackie Paper came no more

And Puff, that mighty dragon, he ceased his fearless roar

 

His head was bent in sorrow, green scales fell like rain

Puff no longer went to play along the cherry lane

Without his lifelong friend, Puff could not be brave

So Puff, that mighty dragon, sadly slipped into his cave

 

Oh, Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea

And frolicked in the autumn mist, in a land called Honah Lee

Puff, the magic dragon, lived by the sea

And frolicked in the autumn mist, in a land called Honah Lee.