DISC 1:
01. And Here We Are Again
02. Words Of Love
03. How About It, Gorgeous?
04. Do You Want To Know A Secret?
05. Lucille
06. Hey, Paul...
07. Anna -Go To Him-
08. Hello!
09. Please Please Me
10. Misery
11. I’m Talking About You
12. A Real Treat
13. Boys
14. Absolutely Fab
15. Chains
16. Ask Me Why
17. Till There Was You
18. Lend Me Your Comb
19. Lower 5E
20. The Hippy Hippy Shake
21. Roll Over Beethoven
22. There’s A Place
23. Bumper Bundle
24. P.S. I Love You
25. Please Mister Postman
26. Beautiful Dreamer
27. Devil In Her Heart
28. The 49 Weeks
29. Sure To Fall -In Love With You-
30. Never Mind, Eh?
31. Twist And Shout
32. Bye, Bye
33. John - Pop Profile -Bonus interview track-
34. George - Pop Profile -Bonus interview track-
DISC 2:
01. I Saw Her Standing There
02. Glad All Over
03. Lift Lid Again
04. I’ll Get You
05. She Loves You
06. Memphis, Tennessee
07. Happy Birthday Dear Saturday Club
08. Now Hush, Hush
09. From Me To You
10. Money -That’s What I Want-
11. I Want To Hold Your Hand
12. Brian Bathtubes
13. This Boy
14. If I Wasn’t In America
15. I Got A Woman
16. Long Tall Sally
17. If I Fell
18. A Hard Job Writing Them
19. And I Love Her
20. Oh, Can’t We? Yes We Can
21. You Can’t Do That
22. Honey Don’t
23. I’ll Follow The Sun
24. Green With Black Shutters
25. Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!
26. That’s What We’re Here For
27. I Feel Fine -studio out-take-
28. Paul - Pop Profile -Bonus interview track-
29. Ringo - Pop Profile -Bonus interview track-
What's this exactly? It's a collection of all of the songs released by The Beatles in the 1960s that were never included on one of their albums. This includes huge hit songs like "Hey Jude" and the fast version of "Revolution" which were released as singles but not on any of their 13 official studio albums. Up until about 1968, mono was the standard. This means that the stereo mixes done up until this time were mostly an afterthought. It was actually the mono versions of these songs that The Beatles and George Martin spent the most time trying to get perfect and it's because of this that to a lot of Beatles purists the mono versions are the "real" versions of this stuff (up through The White Album, which was the last one mixed in mono.) Here are the stereo mixes.
01- Love Me Do (original single version)
02- From Me To You
03- Thank You Girl
04- She Loves You
05- I'll Get You
06- I Want To Hold Your Hand
07- This Boy
08- Komm Gib Mir Deine Hand
09- Sie Liebt Dich
10- Long Tall Sally
11- I Call Your Name
12- Slow Down
13- Matchbox
14- I Feel Fine
15- She's A Woman
16- Bad Boy
17- Yes It Is
18- I'm Down
Disc Two:
01- Day Tripper
02- We Can Work It Out
03- Paperback Writer
04- Rain
05- Lady Madonna
06- The Inner Light
07- Hey Jude
08- Revolution
09- Get Back
10- Don't Let Me Down
11- The Ballad of John & Yoko
12- Old Brown Shoe
13- Across The Universe
14- Let It Be
15- You Know My Name [Look Up The Number]
What's this exactly? It's a collection of all of the songs released by The Beatles in the 1960s that were never included on one of their albums. This includes huge hit songs like "Hey Jude" and the fast version of "Revolution" which were released as singles but not on any of their 13 official studio albums. Up until about 1968, mono was the standard. This means that the stereo mixes done up until this time were mostly an afterthought. It was actually the mono versions of these songs that The Beatles and George Martin spent the most time trying to get perfect and it's because of this that to a lot of Beatles purists the mono versions are the "real" versions of this stuff (up through The White Album, which was the last one mixed in mono.)
01- Love Me Do (original single version)
02- From Me To You
03- Thank You Girl
04- She Loves You
05- I'll Get You
06- I Want To Hold Your Hand
07- This Boy
08- Komm Gib Mir Deine Hand
09- Sie Liebt Dich
10- Long Tall Sally
11- I Call Your Name
12- Slow Down
13- Matchbox
14- I Feel Fine
15- She's A Woman
16- Bad Boy
17- Yes It Is
18- I'm Down
01- Day Tripper
02- We Can Work It Out
03- Paperback Writer
04- Rain
05- Lady Madonna
06- The Inner Light
07- Hey Jude
08- Revolution
09- Only A Northern Song
10- All Together Now
11- Hey Bulldog
12- It's All Too Much
13- Get Back
14- Don't Let Me Down
15- Across The Universe
16- You Know My Name [Look Up The Number]
01- Ticket to Ride
02- From Me to You
03- Thank You Girl
04- She's a Woman
05- I Feel Fine
06- Long Tall Sally
07- She Loves You
08- I'll Get You
09- I Want to Hold Your Hand
10- This Boy
11- Slow Down
12- Matchbox
STEREO:
01- A Hard Day's Night (1962-1966)
02- I Should Have Known Better (Reel Music)
03- If I Fell (Something New)
04- I’m Happy Just To Dance With You (Something New)
05- And I Love Her (Something New)
06- Tell Me Why (Something New)
07- Can’t Buy Me Love (Hey Jude)
08- Anytime At All (Something New)
09- I’ll Cry Instead (Something New)
10- Things We Said Today (Something New)
11- When I Get Home (Something New)
12- You Can’t Do That (Rock & Roll Music)
13- I’ll Be Back (Beatles '65)
MONO:
14- A Hard Day's Night (A Hard Day's Night - UA)
15- I Should Have Known Better (A Hard Day's Night - UA)
16- If I Fell (Something New)
17- I’m Happy Just To Dance With You (Something New)
18- And I Love Her (Something New)
19- Tell Me Why (Something New)
20- Can’t Buy Me Love (A Hard Day's Night - UA)
21- Anytime At All (Something New)
22- I’ll Cry Instead (Something New)
23- Things We Said Today (Something New)
24- When I Get Home (Something New)
25- You Can’t Do That (The Beatles' Second Album)
26- I’ll Be Back (Beatles '65) Bonus Tracks STEREO:
27- Long Tall Sally (The Beatles' Second Album)
28- I Call Your Name (The Beatles' Second Album)
29- Slow Down (Something New)
30- Matchbox (Something New)
Bonus Tracks MONO:
31- Long Tall Sally (The Beatles' Second Album)
32- I Call Your Name (The Beatles' Second Album)
33- Slow Down (Something New)
34- Matchbox (Something New)
George Harrison, MBE (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English rock guitarist, singer-songwriter and film producer who achieved international fame as lead guitarist of The Beatles. Often referred to as "the quiet Beatle", Harrison embraced Indian mysticism, and helped broaden the horizons of the other Beatles, as well as those of their Western audience. Following the band's breakup, he had a successful career as a solo artist and later as part of the Traveling Wilburys, and also as a film and record producer. Harrison is listed at number 21 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". Although most of The Beatles' songs were written by Lennon and McCartney, Harrison generally wrote one song per side from the Help! album onwards. His later compositions with The Beatles include "Here Comes the Sun", "Something" and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". By the time of the band's breakup, Harrison had accumulated a backlog of material, which he then released as the acclaimed and successful triple album All Things Must Pass in 1970, from which came two singles: a double A-side single, "My Sweet Lord" backed with "Isn't It a Pity", and "What Is Life". In addition to his solo work, Harrison co-wrote two hits for Ringo Starr, another former Beatle, as well as songs for the Traveling Wilburys—the supergroup he formed in 1988 with Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, and Roy Orbison. Harrison embraced Indian culture and Hinduism in the mid 1960s, and helped expand Western awareness of sitar music and of the Hare Krishna movement. With Ravi Shankar he organised a major charity concert with the 1971 Concert for Bangladesh, and is the only Beatle to have published an autobiography, with I Me Mine in 1980. Besides being a musician, he was also a record producer and co-founder of the production company HandMade Films. In his work as a film producer, he collaborated with people as diverse as the members of Monty Python and Madonna. He was married twice, to the model Pattie Boyd in 1966, and to the record company secretary Olivia Trinidad Arias in 1978, with whom he had one son, Dhani Harrison. He was a close friend of Eric Clapton. Harrison died of lung cancer in 2001. American film director Martin Scorsese has announced that he is making a George Harrison documentary titled Living in the Material World: George Harrison.
01- You 02- Bangla Desh 03- Dark Horse 04- Poor Little Girl 05- That's the Way It Goes 06- Cockamamie Blues 07- Wake Up My Love 08- Life Itself 09- Crackerbox Palace 10- Cloud 9 11- Here Comes The Moon 12- Gone Troppo 13- Love Comes to Everyone
Helen Kate Shapiro (born 28 September 1946) is an English singer and actress. She is best known for her 1960s UK chart toppers, "You Don't Know" and "Walkin' Back to Happiness". In 1961, at the age of fourteen, she had two number one hits in the UK: "You Don't Know" and "Walkin' Back to Happiness"; and, indeed, her first four single releases all went into the top three of the UK Singles Chart. Most of her recording sessions were at EMI's studios at Abbey Road in north west London. Her mature voice made her an overnight sensation, as well as the youngest female chart topper in the UK. At a mere 14 years and 316 days old when "You Don't Know" hit the top, she was nevertheless a year older than Frankie Lymon had been when "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" hit the UK number one slot in 1956. Before she was sixteen years old, Shapiro had been voted Britain's 'Top Female Singer'. The Beatles' first national tour of Britain in the late winter/early spring of 1963 was as her supporting act. During the course of the tour, the Beatles had their first hit single and John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote the song "Misery" intended for her, but Shapiro did not record the composition. In 1995, during a This is Your Life installment highlighting her life and career, Shapiro revealed, "It was actually turned down on my behalf before I ever heard it, actually. I never got to hear it or give an opinion. It's a shame, really." By the time she was in her late teens, her career as a pop singer was on the wane. With the new wave of beat music and newer female singers such as Cilla Black, Sandie Shaw and Lulu - Shapiro appeared old-fashioned and emblematic of the bee-hived pre-Beatles era. She branched out as a performer in stage musicals, a jazz singer, (jazz being her first love musically), and more recently a gospel singer. She played the role of Nancy in Lionel Bart's musical, Oliver! in London's West End and has appeared in British television soap operas; in particular Albion Market where she played one of the main characters up to the time it was taken off-air in August 1986. Shapiro retired from show business at the end of 2002 to concentrate on her gospel outreach evenings. She is married to John Judd, an actor with numerous roles in British television and cinema, she resides in the town of Highworth, Wiltshire. Her autobiography, published in 1993, was entitled Walking Back to Happiness.
01- Don't Treat Me Like A Child 02- You Don't Know 03- Walkin' Back To Happiness 04- Tell Me What He Said 05- Let's Talk About Love 06- Little Miss Lonely 07- Keep Away From Other Girls 08- Queen For Tonight 09- Woe Is Me 10- Look Who It Is 11- Fever 12- Look Over Your Shoulder 13- Tomorrow Is Another Day 14- Shop Around 15- I Wish I'd Never Loved You 16- When I'm With You 17- Marvellous Lie 18- Kiss N' Run 19- I Apologise 20- Sometime Yesterday 21- I Don't Care 22- Cry My Heart Out 23- Daddy Couldn't Get Me One Of Those 24- Walking In My Dreams 25- Ole Father Time 26- He Knows How To Love Me 27- I Walked Right In (With My Eyes Wide Open) 28- You Won't Come Home 29- I Was Only Kidding 30- It's So Funny I Could Cry
Amália da Piedade Rodrigues,(July 23, 1920 – October 6, 1999), also known as Amália Rodrigues was a Portuguese singer and actress. Despite official documents which give her date of birth as July 23, Rodrigues always said her birthday was July 1, 1920. She was born in Lisbon, in the rua Martim Vaz (Martim Vaz Street), neighborhood of Pena. Her father was a trumpet player and cobbler from Fundão who returned there when Amália was just over a year old, leaving her to live in Lisbon with her maternal grandmother in a deeply Catholic environment until she was 14, when her parents returned to the capital and she moved back in with them. She was known as the "Rainha do Fado" ("Queen of Fado") and was most influential in popularizing the fado worldwide. In fact, she was one of the most important figures in the genre’s development, and enjoyed a 40-year recording and stage career. Rodrigues' performances and choice of repertoire pushed fado’s boundaries and helped redefine it and reconfigure it for her and subsequent generations. In effect, Rodrigues wrote the rulebook on what fado could be and on how a female fadista — or fado singer — should perform it, to the extent that she remains an unsurpassable model and an unending source of repertoire for all those who came afterwards. Rodrigues enjoyed an extensive international career between the 1950s and the 1970s, although in an era where such efforts were not as easily quantified as today. Other well-known international fado artists such as Mafalda Arnauth, Madredeus, Dulce Pontes and Mariza have come close, however. Here is more evidence that fado is one of the great urban sounds, and Amalia herself, at her best, one of the finest singers this century has produced. No frills here, just enchantment backed by the equally classic duo of guitars, Portuguese (Jaime Santos) and six-stringed (Domingos Camarinha or Santos Moreira). Three cuts are in Spanish. The rest are pure Lisbon saudade.
01- O Namorico da Rita 02- As Rosas de Meu Caminho 03- Raizes 04- Cansaço 05- Antigamente 06- Grão de Arroz 07- Anjo Inutil 08- Marcha Do Centenario 09- Sem Razão 10- Trepa No Coquiero 11- Toiro! Eh! Toiro 12- Job 13- Faia 14- Fadista Louco 15- Lar Português 16- No Me Tires Indire 17- Por un Amor 18- Lerele
Ok, for starters, let me tell you every single song this guy released in the sixties is just a creative masterpiece. He can make you cry with "Oh Mío Signore" and then he makes you dance like crazy with his greatest tune: "Guarda Come Dondolo". His beach tunes are outstanding: "Abbronzattisima" is a time machine that put you on a mediterranean beach in the summer of 1962, with cute babes, sun and a smooth breeze. A total must. Completely.
01- Il Peperone 02- La Tremarella 03- Sei Diventata Nera 04- Stessa Spiagga, Stesso Mare 05- Guarda Come Dondolo 06- Hully Gully in Dieci 07- I Watussi 08- Sul Cucuzzolo della Montagna 09- Oh Mío Signore 10- Abbronzatissima
"...in a man's life, there are two important dates : his birth and his death. Everything we do in between is not very important." - Jacques Brel
Jacques Romain Georges Brel (8 April 1929 – 9 October 1978) was a Belgian singer-songwriter. Brel composed and recorded his songs almost exclusively in French, although he recorded a number of songs in Flemish. Brel's songs are not especially well known in the English-speaking world except in translation and through the interpretations of other singers, most famously Scott Walker and Judy Collins. Others who have sung his work in English include Marc Almond, Momus/Nick Currie, Beirut, David Bowie, Ray Charles, The Dresden Dolls, Gavin Friday, Alex Harvey, Terry Jacks, Alan Clayson, Barb Jungr, The Kingston Trio, Jack Lukeman, Amanda McBroom, Rod McKuen, Spencer Moody, Camille O'Sullivan, Dax Riggs, Nina Simone, Frank Sinatra, Dusty Springfield and Dave Van Ronk. In French-speaking countries, Brel is also remembered as an actor and director. Jacques Brel has sold over 25 million records worldwide, including over 12 million albums and singles in France and Belgium. Brel was born in Schaarbeek, Belgium, a district of Brussels, but lived half of his life in Paris. He died in Bobigny in the suburbs of Paris, of lung cancer, and is buried in the Marquesas Islands. Although his family did speak French, they were of Flemish descent, with some of the family originating from Zandvoorde, near Ypres. Brel's father was co-owner of a cardboard factory and Brel started his working life there, apparently destined to follow his father's footsteps. However, he had no interest in it and showed an interest in culture instead, joining the Catholic-humanist youth organisation Franche Cordée, where he sang and acted. At Franche Cordée he met Thérèse Michielsen ('Miche'). They married in 1950. In the early 1950s Brel achieved minor success in Belgium singing his own songs. A 78rpm record (La foire/Il y a) was released as a result. From 1954 Brel pursued an international singing career. He quit his job and moved to Paris, where he stayed at the Hotel Stevens and gave guitar lessons to artist-dancer Francesco Frediani to pay his rent. Jean Villard Gilles recognized his talent and hired him immediately for his cabaret "Chez Gilles". (Later, Gilles' successful song / poem La Venoge inspired Brel to write Le Plat Pays.) Frediani witnessed his first show at the Olympia as an "ouverture de rideau" act (i.e., while the public was entering and being seated). Brel had to change behind the bar. Bruno Coquatrix, the owner, invited him to come back. He carried on writing music and singing in the city's cabarets and music-halls, where on stage he delivered his songs with great energy. In January 1955 he supported in the Ancienne Belgique in Brussels the performances of the Belgian pop and variety pioneer Bobbejaan Schoepen. After some success his wife and daughters joined him from Belgium. By 1956 he was touring Europe and he recorded the song Quand on n'a que l'amour that brought him his first major recognition. He appeared in a show with Maurice Chevalier and Michel Legrand. By the end of the 1950s Miche and Brel's three daughters had returned to Brussels. From then on, he and his family led separate lives. Under the influence of his friend Georges Pasquier ('Jojo') and pianists Gérard Jouannest and Francois Rauber, Brel's style changed. He was no longer a Catholic-humanist troubadour, but sang grimmer songs about love, death, and the struggle that is life. The music became more complex and his themes more diverse, exploring love (Je t'aime, Litanies pour un Retour), society (Les Singes, Les Bourgeois, Jaurès), and spiritual concerns (Le Bon Dieu, Dites, Si c'était Vrai, Fernand). His work was not limited to one style. He was as proficient in funny compositions (Le Lion, Comment Tuer l'Amant de sa Femme...) as in more emotional ones (Voir un Ami Pleurer, Fils de..., Jojo). But he occasionally included parts in Dutch as in "'Marieke", and also recorded Dutch versions of a few songs such as Le Plat Pays (Mijn vlakke land), Ne me quitte pas (Laat Me Niet Alleen), Rosa, Les Bourgeois (De Burgerij) and Les paumés du petit matin (De Nuttelozen van de Nacht). A rather obscure single was uncovered only a few years ago having Brel singing in Dutch De apen (Les singes) and Men vergeet niets (On n'oublie rien). These two were included in the 16 CD box Boîte à Bonbons. Since his own command of Dutch was poor, most of his later Dutch interpretations were translated by Ernst van Altena, but De Apen by Eric Franssen, Men vergeet niets by well known Flemish artist Will Ferdy and Marieke was translated by Brel himself. He starred in the musical L'Homme de la Mancha (Man of La Mancha) which he also translated into French and directed. As an actor he gained fame playing opposite Lino Ventura in L'Emmerdeur and L'aventure, c'est l'aventure. In 1969 he took the lead role opposite Claude Jade in Mon oncle Benjamin. Le Far West, a comedy which he directed, co-wrote and appeared in, competed for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1973. In 1973 he embarked in a yacht, planning to sail around the world. When he reached the Canary Islands, Brel, a heavy smoker, was diagnosed with lung cancer. He returned to Paris for treatment and later continued his ocean voyage. He was also a keen pilot and owned several small planes, including the eponymous 'Jojo'. In 1975 he reached the Marquesas Islands, and decided to stay, remaining there until 1977 when he returned to Paris and recorded his well-received final album. He died in 1978 at age 49 and was buried in Calvary Cemetery in Atuona, Hiva Oa, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia, only a few yards away from painter Paul Gauguin.
01- Jaurès 02- Ne Me Quitte Pas 03- Les Vieux 04- La Quête 05- On N'Oblie Rien 06- Le Plat Pays 07- Mathilde 08- Les Remparts de Varsovie 09- Amsterdam 10- J'Arrive 11- Ces Gens-Lá 12- Jef 13- Vesoul 14- Au Suivant 15- Madeleine 16- Les Bourgeois
Robert Nesta Marley was born on February 6, 1945 in the parish of St. Anns in Nine Miles, Jamaica to Norval Sinclair Marley and Cedella ‘Ciddy’ Malcom. Norval was a British Marine officer and Ciddy was a native Jamaican. Soon after his birth, Bob’s father left and had little contact with him although he did financially support his son. When Bob was five, his father took him to Kingston, Jamaica. It wasn’t until a year later that Bob saw his mother again. Soon after, he moved with his mother to Trenchtown, a section of Kingston notorious for it’s rough ghettoes. In 1961, at the age of sixteen, Bob released his first song, 'Judge Not', which did not do well. This did not discourage Bob. He continued to pursue a career in music and in 1965, he formed a group called ‘The Wailers’ with Bunny Livingstone (later known as Bunny Wailer) and Peter McIntosh (later known as simply Peter Tosh.) Bob acted as front man for the group and wrote most of the group’s material. The trio released ‘Simmer Down,’ ‘Rule Them Rudie’ and ‘It Hurts To Be Alone,’ all of which were hits in Jamaica. In 1966, Bob Marley married Rita Anderson, his long-term girlfriend. The next day he went to the United States and stayed long enough to gain financing for his next record. The next year Bob and Rita’s first child, Cedella, was born. Soon after, the Marleys set up their own recording label, Wail ‘N Soul ‘M Records, and produced a single, ‘Bend Down Low/Mellow Mood.’ That same year, the record label was ended. Their next child, David (Ziggy) was born in 1968. The Wailers continued to release singles without producing an album. The band formed another label, Tuff Gong, and finally reached a degree of success. By that time, the Wailers were famous in the Caribbean, but were unknown in the rest of the world. Finally in 1971, the Wailers got a break. Island Records forwarded them 8,000 pounds for the production of a full album. The Wailers were the first reggae band to receive so much money and to have access to the best recording studios. They produced two albums, ‘Catch a Fire’ and ‘Burnin’’, the latter which included ‘Get Up Stand Up’ and ‘I Shot the Sheriff.’ The Wailers began to extensively toured the United States and the United Kingdom and when Eric Clapton covered ‘I Shot the Sheriff’ the Wailers soared to instant fame. Soon after their success in the US, the band changed their name to Bob Marley and the Wailers and then released their next album, ‘Natty Dread.’ The album included the hit single ‘No Woman No Cry,’ perhaps their most popular song. Soon after, Bunny and Peter left to pursue solo careers and were replaced by new members. By 1976, reggae fever had swept the United States. Rolling Stone magazine named Bob Marley and the Wailers the ‘Band of the Year’ and ‘Rastaman Vibration’ rose to the top of the charts. On December 3 of 1976, an assassination attempt was made on Bob Marley, his wife and the managers of the Wailers to keep him from playing at the Smile Jamaica concert in Kingston. His concert was scheduled for December 5 after a presidential candidate’s election rally, a presidential candidate who happened to be at odds with the US. Some people believe that the assassination attempt was executed by the US government, for fear that Marley’s performance would sway the vote. Despite receiving two gun shot wounds, Bob Marley performed anyway and then left for the UK. Bob Marley and the Wailers went on to produce their next album, ‘Exodus,’ in 1977. The release of this album propelled Bob to a international superstar. Later, in May of the same year, Bob found out that he had cancer in his toe. Doctors recommended that he have the toe removed, but Bob refused since this was against his Rastafarian beliefs. In July, the rest of the Exodus tour was canceled. In 1978, the band released another album, ‘Kaya.’ The group's songs went from protest anthems to love songs about ganja (marijuana), which is highly held by Rastafarians as a way to connect with Jah (God.) In April, Marley returned to Jamaica to perform in the One Love Peace Concert, and later that year he received a Peace Medal of the Third World from the United Nations. Bob Marley also traveled to Africa for the first time, making stops in Kenya, Ethiopia and Zimbabwe. The band went on touring throughout the US and Europe and produced a few more albums, ncluding ‘Uprising.’ However, in 1980, Marley fell gravely ill. The cancer in his toe had spread upwards through his body and had infected his liver, stomach and brain. In September, Bob nearly fainted during a concert in New York City. The next day he collapsed while jogging through a park and was rushed to the hospital. The doctors revealed that the tumor in his brain had greatly enlarged and that Bob had less than a month to live. Bob wanted to continue the tour though, and he performed a spectacular show in Pittsburgh on September 22. Rita was not happy with his decision to spend his final days touring though, and the concert was canceled the next day. Bob then went to Miami where he was baptized at the Ethiopian Orthodox Church on November 4. Five days later, in a last attempt to save his life, Bob flew to a controversial treatment center in Germany with Rita. Three months later on May 11, 1981, Bob Marley died at the young age of 36. Bob Marley’s funeral was held in Jamaica on May 21, and hundreds of thousands of people attended, including the Prime Minister of Jamaica. Bob’s body was taken back to his birth place in Nine Miles where it now rests in a mausoleum.
01- Buffalo Soldier 02- One Love (People Get Ready) 03- Could You Be Loved 04- No Woman, No Cry 05- Three Little Birds 06- Coming In From The Cold 07- Sun Is Shining vs. Funkstar D 08- Jamming 09- Easy Skanking 10- Punky Reggae Party 11- Redemption Song 12- Is This Love 13- Exodus 14- Stir It Up 15- Waiting In Vain 16- I Shot The Sheriff 17- Get Up, Stand Up
Her diction, her phrasing, her technical perfection, her good taste, in other words, her interpretative quality makes of Nelly Omar (born Nilda Elvira Vattuone - September 10, 1911) an example and the paradigm of a singer, who today when she is nearly ninety years old, keeps on pleasing us with her still fresh voice. She was born in the city of Guaminí, west of the province of Buenos Aires, an agricultural and cattle area with large estancias. In one of them, "La atrevida", his father (Marcos Vattuone) worked as foreman. She inherited the craft of singing from her father that was guitar strummer. She had several brothers and sisters, but only two women followed her steps: Elena, called Gory, who later became the wife of the poet Julián Centeya, and Nélida. Nelly herself has said that her father was an acquaintance of Carlos Gardel and, that on several occasions, when he visited the city of Buenos Aires, they went together to the horse races. "When in 1918 Gardel with José Razzano came to town, my father and other neighbors were who sold the admission tickets and organized the presentation of the duo. The theater was crowded. Later they came home. We, my brothers, my sisters and I, watched everything through a window. My father, like a good Italian of then, did not allow us to mingle with adults. But his image remained in my memory. Gardel, fat and his straightened hair with a central parting." In 1924 Nelly was already in Buenos Aires. She went for an audition to complete the cast for the folk outfit "Cenizas del fogón", and she was accepted at once. The outfit played on Radio Rivadavia, and besides singing, our girl had brief performances as actress. During the years 1932 and 1933, on the same broadcasting and also on other radios located at the same building (Radio Mayo and Splendid), she appeared together with her sister Nélida to sing as a duo. "We sang country tunes, mainly from the province of Buenos Aires: milongas, estilos, songs. But I also sang tangos as soloist." As a curiosity we can highlight that the girls exchanged their names, our Nilda became Nélida, more precisely Nelly, and Nélida adopted her sister Nilda´s name. Soon thereafter she joined another group of similar features: "Cuadros Argentinos". A radio theater play on Radio Stentor that, after its end, was performed on different stages in neighborhoods and country towns. "This group was led by the brothers Julio and Alfredo Navarrine, and by Antonio Molina as well. I married the latter in 1935, but it was an unfortunate mistake. I was married eight years and I ought to have broken up after the first two months, but the affection for my mother-in-law, a second mother for me, prevented me from doing so." Her presentations went on and her popularity was evidenced in 1937, when a great radio-phonic poll organized by the Caras y Caretas magazine recognized her as the best national female singer. In 1938, when she appeared at a cinema in the locality of Valentín Alsina, the announcer had the bad taste of calling her "La Gardel con polleras" (A Gardel with skirt), and through a long time and up to the present, the lack of imagination and the triviality of the announcers, keep repeating this somewhat unhappy nickname. Then the time of splendor of our artist came when she appeared on the most important radios accompanied by the leading artists of the period, like Libertad Lamarque and Agustín Magaldi, among others. The ideas and the scripts of her programs were created by Enrique Cadícamo and Homero Manzi, with the latter she began a sentimental relationship which lasted several years. Some people say that the lyrics of the tango "Ninguna" are inspired in her. She finally recorded for the Odeon label in 1946, on Francisco Canaro´s recommendation. She committed to disc ten numbers: on January 28, "Adiós pampa mía" and "Canción desesperada"; on October 8: "El Morocho y el Oriental (Gardel-Razzano)" and "Rosas de otoño"; on March 26, the following year: "Sentimiento gaucho" and "Sus ojos se cerraron"; on May 28: "Déjame no quiero verte nunca más" and "La canción de Buenos Aires"; and finally, on October 22, her two remarkable hits: "Desde el alma" and "Nobleza de arrabal", the latter with lyrics by Homero Manzi. That same year, the Society of Authors and Composers paid homage to her at a night local called "Novelty"; they bestowed a medal on her and she was renamed "La voz dramática del tango". Talking of her career, Nelly confessed that she does not like to beg, "to go around knocking doors. I would feel quite badly if I knew that I am singing because of a favor. Only once in my lifetime someone helped me, so as I would be allowed to appear on Radio Splendid. It was Evita, and it was not because I asked her. She did not understand why I was not given a space. She liked my singing and even more that I sang our music. I thanked her by recording the milonga "La descamisada" and the march "Es el pueblo"." During the remaining time of the Peronist government, Nelly Omar sang at the big popular celebrations that the government organized. «I never had anything to do with politics, I took part because I was Peronist, fond of Perón and Evita.» When the coup d´état that overthrew General Perón in 1955 called "Revolución Libertadora" took place, all the artists that had supported the overthrown government saw their possibilities of work cancelled, among them was Nelly Omar who was banned nearly for 30 years. At those difficult times she went to Uruguay and later to Venezuela. In 1966 she briefly appeared on television and only in the late 70s and in the early 80s she recorded with the guitarists Roberto Grela, José Canet and later with the orchestra of Alberto Di Paulo. In December 1997, being she 86 years old and with a clear incredibly young voice, with the dignity of the great ones, she recorded a compact disc including some pieces recorded for the first time: "Comme il faut" by Arolas with lyrics by Gabriel Clausi, and other two, with lyrics of who had been his last partner in life, Héctor Oviedo: "La piel de vivir" and "Por la luz que me alumbra". The guitars of Bartolomé Palermo and Paco Peñalba accompanied her.
01- La Guitarrita 02- Sigo Queriéndote Igual 03- Corazón De Oro 04- Santa Milonguita 05- El Estrellero 06- Misterio y Canción 07- Tapera 08- Campo Afuera 09- Derecho Viejo 10- Para Un Adiós 11- Casualidad y Amor 12- Las Cuatro Respuestas 13- Milonga De Los Fortines 14- Tango Argentino 15- Guitarra De Echeverria 16- Duelo Criollo 17- Serenata Gaucha 18- Monte Criollo 19- Por El Camino 20- Antes 21- Margaritas 22- Las Cosas Que No Te Dije 23- Intriga y Pasión 24- Me Besó y Se Fue
Bonus Tracks:
25- Tu Vuelta 26- Pacencia 27- Pa' Dumensil 28- Sur 29- Parece Mentira 30- Amar y Callar 31- El Adiós de Gabino Ezeiza 32- Rosas de Abril 33- La Pulpera de Santa Lucía 34- Betinotti 35- Vamos, Vamos Zaino Viejo
Gigliola Cinquetti (born 20 December 1947, Verona, Veneto) is an Italian singer, TV presenter and journalist. At the age of 16 she won the Sanremo Music Festival in 1964 singing "Non Ho L'Età" ("I'm Not Old Enough"), with music composed by Nicola Salerno and lyrics by Mario Panzeri. Her victory enabled her to represent Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest 1964 with the same song, and she went on to claim her country's first ever victory in the event. This became an international success, even entering UK Singles Chart, traditionally unusual for Italian material. It sold over three million copies, and was awarded a platinum disc in August 1964. In 1966, she recorded "Dio, come ti amo" ("God, How I Love You"), which became another worldwide hit.She returned to fame in Eurovision Song Contest 1974, again representing Italy. Performing the song "Sì" ("Yes"), the music and lyrics of which were written by Mario Panzeri, Daniele Pace, Lorenzo Pilat and Carrado Conti, she finished second behind "Waterloo", sung by Sweden's ABBA. According to author and historian, John Kennedy O'Connor's, The Eurovision Song Contest - The Official History, the live telecast of her song was banned in her home country by the Italian national broadcaster RAI, as the event partially coincided with the campaigning for the 1974 Italian referendum on divorce which was held a month later in May. RAI censored the song because of concerns that the name and lyrics of the song (which constantly repeated the word 'Sì') could be accused of being a subliminal message and a form of propaganda to influence the Italian voting public to vote 'Yes' in the referendum. The song remained censored on most Italian state TV and radio stations for over a month. An English language version of the song, "Go (Before You Break My Heart)", reached number 8 in the UK Singles Chart in June 1974. One of her other songs, "Alle Porte del Sole" (released in 1973), was re-recorded in English (as "Door of the Sun") and Italian by Al Martino, two years after its initial release, and reached #17 on Billboard's Hot 100 in the United States. Cinquetti's own English version of the song was released as a single by CBS Records in August 1974, with her original 1973 Italian version on the B-side. Cinquetti went on to co-host the Eurovision Song Contest 1991 with Toto Cutugno, who had brought the event to Italy with his victory in Zagreb the previous year - the country's first win in the contest since her own twenty-six years earlier. In the 1990s she became a professional journalist and TV presenter, and she currently hosts the current affairs programme Italia Rai on RAI International.
01- Dio Come Ti Amo 02- Rosa Nera 03- Mille Anni 04- Piccola Città 05- Grazie Amore 06- Ho Il Cuore Tenero 07- Non Ho L'Età 08- Guando M'Innamoro 09- Sera 10- Domagne, Domagne 11- Una Storia d'Amore 12- Tutte Meno Una
Oscar Marcelo Alemán (February 20, 1909 – October 14, 1980) was an Argentine jazz guitarist. He was of Afro Argentine descent. Oscar Marcelo Alemán, talented singer, dancer, entertainer, and guitarist, was born in Chaco province, in Northern Argentina, on February 20, 1909. At the age of six, he was dancing and singing with his family's folk ensemble, the Moreira Sextet, playing the cavaquinho, a Brazilian ukelele before taking up the guitar. By the age of ten, after his mother had died and father had committed suicide, he found himself an orphan working sporadically as a dancer and musician on the streets of Santos, in Brazil. Alemán played two guitars - mostly the d-hole Selmer Maccaferri (also played by Django Reinhardt), and a National Style 1 tri-cone resonator guitar. In 1924 Alemán met and began working with Brazilian guitarist Gaston Bueno Lobo. The duo was signed to the prestigious Argentine RCA Victor label and performed under the name Los Lobos. On occasion, they would add violinist Eleven Verdure and recorded under the name Trio Victor. In the 1930s, having discovered American Jazz via Eddie Lang and Joe Venuti, Alemán moved to Paris where he was immediately hired by Josephine Baker to lead her band, the Baker Boys, at the Cafe de Paris. This provided him an incredible opportunity to play regularly with American Jazz musicians who would come to see Josephine and sit in with her band. Alemán later formed his own nine-piece band which would play nightly at the Le Chantilly, not far from venues where Django Reinhardt and his partner violinist Stephane Grappelli would perform with their famous ensemble Quintette du Hot Club de France. Although these two geniuses of the guitar never recorded together, they became close friends. In 1939, jazz critic Leonard Feather visited Paris. He returned to America raving about his new "discovery" and stated, "Alemán has more swing than any other guitarist on the continent." Due to the WW II, Alemán relocated to Buenos Aires in the early '40s and continued to record and perform with both a swing quintet, as well as with a nine-piece orchestra. In 1972 at age 63, Alemán recorded a new album which met rave reviews and helped re-launch his career with the reissue of many of his previous recordings, along with concert dates and television appearances. He continued to teach and perform in Buenos Aires until his death in 1980,at 71 years old.
01- Nobody's Sweetheart 02- Russian Lullaby 03- Just a Little Swing 04- Jeeper Creepers 05- Sweet Georgia Brown 06- In the Mood 07- Man of Mine 08- I've Got Rhythm 09- Begin the Beguine 10- Tico Tico No Fuba 11- Caminos Cruzados (Malagueña) 12- Scartunas 13- Stardust 14- Honeysuckle Rose 15- Lady Be Good 16- Boogie Woogie Jam 17- Who's Sorry Now 18- Swingin' on a Star 19- Melancolia 20- Sentimental Journey 21- Cómo te Llamas 22- Buggle Call Rag 23- Darktown Strutter's Ball 24- Blue Skies 25- Twelfth Street Rag 26- Swanee River 27- Vieni Sul Mar 28- Delicado 29- Mia Casita Pequeñita
Stevie Ray Vaughan (born Stephen Ray Vaughan; October 3, 1954 – August 27, 1990) was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. Stephen Ray Vaughan was born on October 3, 1954 at Methodist Hospital in Dallas, Texas to Jim and Martha Vaughan. His brother, Jimmie Vaughan, is three years older. At age 7, Vaughan acquired his first guitar, a Sears toy guitar with only three strings. Among the first songs that he learned to play were hits by The Nightcaps, a Texas garage rock band that had a national hit in 1962 with "Wine, Wine, Wine." In 1963, Vaughan got his first electric guitar, a hand-me-down from his brother.Jimmie Vaughan's friend, Doyle Bramhall, heard Stevie Ray Vaughan playing a song called "Jeff's Boogie" by The Yardbirds, and was impressed. Bramhall would help Vaughan’s singing and songwriting development. In 1967, Vaughan’s first band, The Chantones, played an outdoor show at Robert E. Lee Park in Dallas and began to advance beyond school dances and private parties. During the summer of 1970, after falling into a barrel of grease while working for a fast food restaurant, Vaughan quit his job, formed his first relatively long-lasting band, Blackbird, and devoted his working life to music. In 1971, Vaughan made his first studio recording, sitting in with a high school band called A Cast of Thousands for a compilation album named A New Hi. The two songs that were on the album showcased Vaughan's early burgeoning talent. During Christmas vacation, he dropped out of high school and moved to Austin, Texas with Blackbird. Their home base was a nightclub on the outskirts of town called the Soap Creek Saloon. In late 1972, he joined a rock band called Krackerjack, but quit a few months later when the lead singer decided that the band should wear theatrical makeup on stage. In March 1973, Marc Benno added Vaughan to his band the Nightcrawlers, which was recording an album in Hollywood for A&M Records. The recording featured Doyle Bramhall on the drums, along with the beginning of a songwriting partnership with Vaughan. The album was not released, however, and the band traveled back to Texas. A year later, he found a battered 1963 Fender Stratocaster at a music store in Austin. It would remain as his favorite guitar for the rest of his life. In late December 1974, Vaughan joined a popular Austin band, Paul Ray & the Cobras, averaging approximately five shows a week. The Cobras released a record and won "Band of the Year" in an Austin music poll. Three years later, Vaughan left the Cobras and formed Triple Threat Revue with vocalist Lou Ann Barton, W. C. Clark on bass guitar, Mike Kindred on keyboards, and Freddie "Pharaoh" Walden on drums. Later, Jackie Newhouse replaced W. C. Clark on bass and Chris Layton replaced Walden on drums. Vaughan and Lou Ann renamed the band Double Trouble, though Barton left in 1980 to sing for Roomful of Blues. On December 23, 1979, Vaughan and Lenora "Lenny" Bailey were married between sets at the Rome Inn nightclub in Austin. Tommy Shannon, the former bassist in Krackerjack, replaced Jackie Newhouse in 1981. In July, the band played a music festival in Manor, Texas and a videotape of the performance was given to Rolling Stones drummer, Charlie Watts. Double Trouble then played a private party for The Rolling Stones at New York's Danceteria nightclub. On July 17, 1982, Vaughan and Double Trouble played the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, the first unsigned act to perform at the event. A few in the audience started booing the loud band throughout their performance since the event was predominately acoustical music. Vaughan later met David Bowie and jammed with Jackson Browne after the show, during an after party which lasted for hours into the morning. Bowie asked Vaughan to play lead guitar on his new album Let's Dance. The album became Bowie's best-selling album of his career. Bowie also invited Vaughan to go on his Serious Moonlight Tour, but Vaughan declined. Browne offered Vaughan time in his recording studio in Los Angeles free of charge, and the band accepted the offer in November 1982. In the spring of the following year, music producer John Hammond heard a tape of the band's Montreux performance, and got the band a recording contract with Epic Records. Hammond is credited with discovering Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan, among others. On June 13, 1983, the recordings in Browne's studio morphed into Texas Flood, Vaughan and Double Trouble's debut album, and was released to glowing reviews, selling over half a million units. Along with making an appearance on Austin City Limits, readers of Guitar Player magazine voted Vaughan as "Best New Talent" and "Best Electric Blues Guitar Player", with Texas Flood as "Best Guitar Album". On May 15, 1984, Couldn't Stand the Weather was released and hit number 31 on the Billboard charts. In October 1984, Vaughan and Double Trouble performed at Carnegie Hall. To celebrate his thirtieth birthday, Vaughan brought along an all-star supporting band, including Dr. John on keyboards and his brother, Jimmie, on guitar, who wore custom tailored velvet mariachi suits. His wife and parents flew in from Texas to share in his triumph. In November 1984, Vaughan won "Entertainer of the Year" and "Instrumentalist of the Year" at the National Blues Awards in Memphis, Tennessee. On September 30, 1985, the band's third album, Soul to Soul, was released, featuring new band member, Reese Wynans, on keyboards. It became their third gold album and went to number 34 on the Billboard charts. In July 1986, the band recorded shows in Austin and Dallas for their fourth album, Live Alive. On August 27, 1986, Vaughan's father, Big Jim Vaughan, died of Parkinson's disease. In late September 1986, Vaughan collapsed in Ludwigshafen, Germany from years of substance abuse, and he would later join Alcoholics Anonymous. Vaughan struggled through two more concerts, though the last thirteen dates on the tour were canceled while Vaughan was admitted to a hospital in London. He emerged clean and sober in Atlanta, Georgia. Tommy Shannon also came out clean and sober while in Austin. Live Alive was released on November 15, 1986. In the spring of 1987, MTV broadcast the band’s show in Daytona Beach, Florida as part of its spring break coverage. Vaughan also appeared in the movie Back to the Beach, performing "Pipeline" with Dick Dale. He also appeared on B.B. King’s Cinemax television special with Eric Clapton, Albert King, Phil Collins, Gladys Knight, Paul Butterfield, Chaka Khan, and Billy Ocean. Later that year, Vaughan filed for divorce from Lenny. In 1988, Vaughan appeared with Stevie Wonder on an MTV special called Characters. Double Trouble also headlined a concert at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. The show, featuring jams with Katie Webster, Albert Collins, and B.B. King, was filmed for a Showtime special called Coast to Coast. Vaughan's divorce from Lenny was finalized toward the end of the year. On January 23, 1989, the band performed at an inauguration party in Washington, D.C. for George H. W. Bush. The band's fifth album, In Step, was released in June, and went on to win a Grammy Award for "Best Contemporary Blues Recording". In the spring of 1990, Vaughan and his brother recorded an album together, one that would feature the music they had grown up with. They recorded at Ardent Studios in Memphis and were produced by Nile Rodgers. The brothers agreed to name it Family Style. That summer, Vaughan and Double Trouble went on tour with British soul singer Joe Cocker, touring places like Alaska and the Benson & Hedges Blues Festival. To complete the summer portion of the "In Step" tour, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble played two shows on August 25 and 26 at Alpine Valley Music Theatre in East Troy, WI, while on tour with Eric Clapton. For travel to the next venue, the tour manager reserved four helicopters to circumvent congested highway traffic. In very dense fog, the helicopters, not certified for flight under instrument flight rules (IFR), lifted off at 12:40 A.M. Just past the lift-off zone was a 300-foot hill. Vaughan's helicopter pilot was unfamiliar with the area and did not climb to sufficient altitude immediately after take-off. Vaughan's helicopter crashed into the hill. According to the findings reported by the National Transportation Safety Board, the causes of the accident were determined to be inadequate planning by the pilot and failure to attain sufficient altitude to clear an obstacle.[12] Fog and haze, as well as the rising terrain, were listed as contributing factors. All occupants, including Vaughan, the pilot, and three members of Eric Clapton's travel group, were killed on impact. On August 31, 1990, funeral services were held for Vaughan at Laurel Land Memorial Park in the Oak Cliff area of Dallas, Texas. Brother Jimmie, mother Martha, and girlfriend Janna were in attendance. Among the mourners were Stevie Wonder, Buddy Guy, Dr. John, Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, and Nile Rodgers. In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Stevie Ray Vaughan #7 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time,[2] and Classic Rock Magazine ranked him #3 in their list of the 100 Wildest Guitar Heroes in 2007.
01- Hard to Be 02- Ain't Gone 'N' Give You Up On Your Lo' 03- Scuttle Buttin' 04- Lenny 05- Lovestruck Baby 06- Superstition (live) 07- Change It 08- Little Wing 09- Cold Shot 10- Brothers 11- Taxman 12- Texas Flood 13- The House is Rockin' 14- Pride and Joy 15- Tightrope 16- Long Way From Home
Carlos Manuel Puebla (11 September 1917, Manzanillo – 12 July 1989, Havana) was a Cuban singer, guitarist, and composer. He was a member of the old trova movement who specialized in boleros and nationalistic songs. Born into a modest family, he did several types of manual jobs during his youth (carpenter, mechanic, sugarcane worker, shoemaker), but quickly became interested in music, and especially in the guitar. He learned how to play the instrument by himself, but he did study harmony and theory of music. He began composing during the 1930s, and met with a certain amount of popularity in his native city. He recorded with his group Los Tradicionales, formed in 1953. From 1962 he was a regular performer in La Bodeguita del medio, a bar-restaurant in Old Havana which was a favourite haunt of Cuban and foreign intellectuals. Politically he stood beside Fidel Castro before the 1959 Revolution. In 1961, he went on tour in several countries with his musicians. His music, as well as his political activity, turned his concerts into a success. He was thenceforth called El Cantor de la Revolución (the singer of the revolution) and other world tours followed. More than an ambassador for Cuban music, he was an ambassador for Cuba. In 1965, the night after Fidel Castro's speech announcing Che Guevara's departure from the government, Puebla, seized by passion, composed what would become his most celebrated work, "Hasta Siempre, Comandante", a true declaration of love for and hope in Che. On 12 July 1989, he died in Havana after a long illness. His ashes were transferred to the cemetery of his native city five years later. A plaque there reads: "Yo soy ésto que soy, un simple trovador que canta" ("I am what I am, a simple troubadour who sings").
01- Hasta Siempre 02- Amorosa Guajira 03- Y En Eso Llegó Fidel 04- De Cuba Traigo un Cantar 05- Soy del Pueblo 06- Aurora 07- Canto a Camilo 08- Retorna 09- La Caimanera 10- Y Tú Qué Has Hecho 11- La Mujer 12- La Tarde 13- Que Alegrón 14- Ojos Malignos 15- Cambio, Cambio 16- Secretos Pasionales 17- Comité de Defensa 18- Mujer Perjura 19- Todos Los Caminos 20- Aquella Boca 21- Canto por Todos los Muertos 22- La Cuarentena 23- David y Goliath 24- Paz con Dignidad
01- Post-Crucifixión 02- Nena Boba 03- Blues de Cris 04- Como el Viento Voy a Ver 05- Despiértate Nena 06- Me Gusta ese Tajo 07- Corto 08- Cementerio Club 09- Credulidad 10- Hola Dulce Viento (Mañana o Pasado) 11- Rock de la Selva Madre
Beniamino Gigli, (March 20, 1890 - November 30, 1957) was an Italian opera singer. The most famous tenor of his generation, he was renowned internationally for the great beauty of his voice and the soundness of his vocal technique. Critics sometimes took him to task, however, for what was perceived to be the over-emotionalism of his interpretations. Nevertheless, such was Gigli's talent that he is considered to be one of the very finest tenors in the recorded history of music. Gigli was born in Recanati, in the Marche, the son of a shoe-maker who loved opera. His brother Lorenzo became a famous Italian painter. In 1914, he won first prize in an international singing competition in Parma. His operatic debut came on October 15, 1914 when he played Enzo in Amilcare Ponchielli's La Gioconda in Rovigo, following which he was in great demand. Gigli made many important debuts in quick succession, and always in Mefistofele: Teatro Massimo di Palermo (March 31, 1915), Teatro San Carlo di Napoli (December 26, 1915), Teatro Costanzi di Roma (December 26, 1916), La Scala (November 19, 1918), and finally the Metropolitan (November 26, 1920). Two other great Italian tenors on the roster of the Met during the 1920s were also Gigli's chief rivals, Giovanni Martinelli and Giacomo Lauri-Volpi. Some of the roles with which Gigli became particularly associated during this period included Edgardo in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, Rodolfo in Giacomo Puccini's La Bohème and the title role in Umberto Giordano's Andrea Chénier, both of which he would later record in full. Gigli rose to true international prominence after the death of the great Italian tenor Enrico Caruso in 1921. Such was his popularity with audiences he was often called "Caruso Secondo", though he much preferred to be known as "Gigli Primo." In fact, the comparison was not valid as Caruso had a bigger, darker, more heroic voice than Gigli's honey-toned lyric instrument. Gigli left the Met in 1932, ostensibly after refusing to take a pay cut. Giulio Gatti-Casazza, the Met's then general manager, was furious at his company's most popular male singer; he told the press that Gigli was the only singer not to accept the pay cut. There were in fact several others, Lily Pons and Rosa Ponselle among them; and it is well-documented that Gatti-Casazza gave himself a large pay increase in 1931, so that after the pay cut in 1932 his salary remained the same as it had been originally. Furthermore, Gatti was careful to hide Gigli's counter offer to the press, in which the singer offered to sing five or six concerts gratis, which in dollars saved was worth more than Gatti's imposed pay cut. After leaving the Met, Gigli returned again to Italy, and sang in houses there, elsewhere in Europe, and in South America. He was criticized for being a favorite singer of the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, and toward the end of World War II was able to give few performances. However he immediately returned to the stage when the war ended in 1945, and the audience acclaim was greater and more clamorous than ever. In the last few years of his life, Gigli gave concert performances more often than he appeared on stage. Before his retirement in 1955, Gigli undertook an exhausting world tour of Farewell Concerts. This impaired his health in the two years that remained to him, during which time he helped prepare his Memoirs (based primarily on an earlier Memoir, fleshed out by a series of interviews). Gigli died in Rome in 1957.
01- Marechiare 02- 'O Sole Mio 03- La Donna e Mobile 04- Qual Turbamento 05- La Danza 06- Santa Lucia 07- Una Furtiva Lagrima 08- Torna a Surriento 09- Dicitencello Vuje 10- L'Ultima Canzone 11- Santa Lucia Luntana 12- 'O Surdatto 'Nnammurato 13- Amore Ti Vieta 14- Solo Per Te, Lucia 15- A Canzone 'e Napule 16- Core 'Ngrato 17- Povera Pulcinella 18- Quanto e Bella 19- Funiculi, Funicula 20- Nessun Dorma 21- Casarella 22- Maria 23- Mamma 24- Ave Maria
Sandro was born in Buenos Aires to Irma Nydia Ocampo and Vicente Sánchez in 1945. He was raised in the southern suburb of Valentín Alsina, and learned to play the guitar as a child, identifying his music as Romani. His paternal grandfather was Russian Rom from Hungary – Roma are known in Argentina as Gitanos (Gypsies). Considered a precursor to Rock music in Spanish. Initially, in his schooldays, he imitated King of Rock and Roll Elvis Presley, but afterwards created a personal style that marked his career. He started the musical group Sandro & los de Fuego in 1961, which gained popularity on the TV show Sábados Circulares, and became wideley-known in the 1960s. With songs such as 'Ave de Paso', 'Atmosfera Pesada', 'Quiero Llenarme de Ti', 'Tengo', '¿A esto le llamas amor?', 'Eres el Demonio Disfrazado' ( cover of '(You're The) Devil in Disguise)', 'Porque Yo Te Amo', 'Penumbras' , 'Una Muchacha y Una Guitarra', 'Trigal' or 'Rosa Rosa', the success of his career kept growing steadily. Sandro also had the leading role in various films, including ("I Want to Fill Myself with You" – 1969) and Subí que te llevo ("Hop On, I'll Give You a Ride" – 1980), and directed one feature, Tú me enloqueces ("I'm Crazy About You"), in 1976. His co-star in the latter film, argentine actrees Susana Giménez, was offered a TV variety show after he refused to host it; Later on, Giménez's show, named Hola Susana, would become a ratings leader shortly after its 1987 launch. He was the first Latino singer to sell out Madison Square Garden five times during the 1970s. Sandro was also the first singer to perform a television concert via satellite in the World's History. The concert was broadcast live from Madison Square Garden on April 1970, and marked the debut of a Latin american artist for a world audience. Sandro's songs were re recorded by international artists such us Shirley Bassey, Liza Minnelli, Burt Bacharach, Dalida, Shirley MacLaine,Toto Cutugno, Nancy Wilson, Mary Hopkins, Loredana Berté, Umberto Tozzi, Gilbert Bécaud, Milva, Julio Iglesias or Engelbert Humperdinck, among others. In the 1990s Argentine and other Latin American artists released an album called Padre del rock en castellano ("Father of Spanish Rock") in his honor. Sandro continued releasing studio albums in the beggining of the 1990s and reappeared on stage in 1993 with a new show, that was presented at Teatro Gran Rex, the most prestigious venue of Buenos Aires, performing 18 attendance-record–breaking consecutive concerts. The news that he suffered from emphysema were made public in 1998, causing a great generalized concern among his followers from all over the world. Sandro had been a self declared longtime cigarette smoking addict, which undoubtedly was the main cause of the disease. On November 20, 2009, Sandro received a double transplant (heart and lungs) in Mendoza, Argentina, the operation was a success. Five days later, in a daily press conference held by his doctors, it was reported that Sandro, although still kept in intensive care, was breathing without a respirator and that he had started a slow recovery. Nevertheless, in the evening of January the 4th of 2010, after 45 days of receiving a double cardio-pulmonary transplant, and after many complications, he died of septic shock, mesenteric ischemia and disseminated intravascular coagulation in the Italian Hospital of Mendoza, Argentina.
01- Como Caja de Música
02- Ayer Aún
03- Ave de Paso
04- Con Los Ojos del Recuerdo
05- Después de la Guerra
06- Las Manos
07- Quiero Llenarme de Ti
08- Como Lo Hice Yo
09- Una Muchacha y Una Guitarra
10- Porque Yo Te Amo
11- Tengo
12- Así
13- París Ante Ti
14- Penumbras
15- Palabras Viejas
16- Rosa, Rosa
17- Dame
18- Guitarras al Viento
19- El Maniquí
20- Trigal
21- Te Propongo
22- La Vida Sigue Igual
