Carole King wrote Will You Love Me Tommorrow with Gerry Goffin on 1960 and she sang it herself only on 1971’s album Tapestry, one of my favorite albuns. This version is a live one from Carole King:
On his 1993’s album Taxi, Bryan Ferry covered this song. The following version is also live by Bryan Ferry:
Je suis là, perdu au milieux de quelque chose. Le blanc et le noir sont là aussi, j’écoute la musique, triste et belle, comme une plume sur la mer du feu. Le piano dit à moi que la chose la plus triste ce n'est pas soufrir, mais n'avoir pas de la chance à sentir.
L’homenage possible à la grandiosité de la musique d’Yann Tiersen au film Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amélie Poulain.
Com seu doce sussurro de jazz em meus ouvidos, Ella fascina-me. Nada melhor para um fim de noite:
Azulejos do Porto
Mindelo de Cabo Verde, Mindelo de Vila do Conde, Mindelo do Porto. Mindelo canta comigo o dia em que vi Portugal, o dia em que nasci nesta lusofonia, na emigração que leva o canto e espera o cais, no porto da língua, no Porto do Norte. Passei por Gaia, Maia e Matosinhos. Rodei-te Porto, fiz-te de ponte, de passagem, de rima. Admiro-te e canto-te com a língua em outras terras, porque da tua voz saem caminhos para a palavra, como Mindelo pode ser uma freguesia de Vila do Conde, uma cidade da ilha de São Vicente, um desembarque que tomou a ti e que fez-se na Praia da Memória. Levo-te as águas desta palavra, que escutei na limpidez da voz dos Madredeus, li no curso, na geografia e na história das terras de Portugal, e que escrevi no leito deste Portus Cale virtual.
One of my favorites alcohol drinks, made specially in Sorrento, Italy, of pure lemon rind, water, sugar and, of course, alcohol. Today I just relaxed a bit reading everything about a thing in an hour, as I call. It was the Limoncello day:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limoncello
As a soundtrack, there’s no better than a traditional neapolitan version of Torna a Surriento written by Ernesto de Curtis and Giambattista de Curtis and sang (in this video) by Beniamino Gigli (and not Enrico Caruso):
The above video shows how quick changes are running nowadays in our lives. There’s no better soundtrack than the Right Here, Right Now song from Fatboy Slim for that. Exponential changes, feelings, emotions, communications… that’s why IT moves me!
Neve de norte à sul de Portugal marca o início de 2009. Desde que não hajam transtornos, acidentes e aldeias isoladas, let it snow! let is snow! let it snow!
I couldn't resist to publish this embedded video today on this blog... Things fall into place and life will surely change.
Yes, I knew it this should be the second single from the Sharleen Spiteri's debut solo album:
It was released on 1984 as the debut single of the Alphaville's first album Forever Young. In the same year songs like Relax from Frankie Goes to Hollywood and People are People from Depeche Mode were also released, this song became a mark in the not only german, but european synthpop music from the 80's.
Another german band, Guano Apes, made a cover from Big in Japan, 16 years later:
The air that I breathe from The Hollies, 1974:
The version from Simply Red, 1998:
The original Itchycoo Park, from 1967, by Small Faces:
The version of M People, released on 1994:
I found out two more videos, from Duran Duran, where Tess Daly appears, Serious:
and Violence of Summer:
The album is Liberty, from 1990.
Feel is a polish band, that on their first 2007 album decided to make a cover from the biggest hit from the duo The Beloved (Jon Marsh and his wife Helena), Sweet Harmony (unfortunately no video clip is available - just a static picture for the song):
is it right or wrong / try to find a place / we can all belong? / be as one / try to get on by / if we unify? / we should really try... / all this time / spinning round and round / made the same mistakes / that we've always found / surely now / we could move along / make a better world? / no it can't be wrong / let's come together / right now / oh yeah / in sweet harmony / let's come together / right now / oh yeah / in sweet harmony / let's come together / right now / oh yeah / in sweet harmony / let's come together / right now
oh yeah time is running out / let there be no doubt / we should sort things out / if we care / like we say we do / not just empty words / for a week or two / make the world / your priority / try to live your life / ecologically / play a part / in a greater scheme / try to live the dream / on a wider scene / let's come together / right now / oh yeah / in sweet harmony
Sweet Harmony, Conscience, The Beloved, 1993
The original version video:
Wow... The blond girl with short hair is Tess Daly, a well known UK presenter.
Lyrics:
Come along with me / Down into the world of seeing / Come and you'll be free / Take the time to find the feeling / See everything on it's own / And you'll find you know the way / And you'll know the things you're shown / Owe everything to do the day / Come along and try / Looking into ways of giving / Maybe we will fly / Find a dream that we will live in / We'll look into the eyes of time / Past ages have turned to dust / And born somewhere on the line / The loving that grows with us / Come into the day / Feel the sunshine warmth around you / Sounds from far away / Music of the love that found you / The seed that you plant today / Tomorrow will be a tree / And living goes on this way / It's all part of you and me / [Chorus:] See the carpet of the sun / The green grass soft and sweet / Sands upon the shores of time / Of ocean mountains deep / Part of the world that you live in / You are the part that you're giving
Carpet of the Sun, Renaissance, 1973
The Blower's daughter, do Damien Rice - uma das músicas que mais gosto, daquelas que temos na nossa tal lista especial e que nunca esquecemos e que sempre que escutamos tomamos alguma atitude diferente como chorar, sorrir ou simplesmente deitar na cama com os braços sob a cabeça, e relaxar:
A parte que mais gosto, sinceramente, é a do fim, após tanta bela tristeza (fado?) que a música e a letra me passam, escuto "I can't take my mind off you... I can't take my mind... my mind... my mind... till I find somebody new". Perfeito. Amanhã é outro dia.
