Song No. 177 — Último Canto | Francis Hime & Ruy Guerra (1965)

Último Canto was introduced in 1965 by Elis Regina, arranged and conducted by Lindolpho Gaya, on her album Samba – Eu Canto Assim.

The song was only recorded six times at the time, first in 1966 by Agostinho dos Santos, arranged by Paulo Moura, and released on his self-titled album and as the B-side to Das Rosas.

Francis Hime recorded his song on his self-titled debut album in 1973.

Selected recordings of Último Canto:

1. Elis Regina from the album Samba – Eu Canto Assim (1965, PhilipsP 632.742 L)

   

2. Agostinho dos Santos from the single Das Rosas b/w Último Canto (Elenco CE-19) and the album Agostinho dos Santos (1966, Elenco ME-26)

   
Artwork for Agostinho dos Santosby Eddie Moyna with illustration by J. C. Mello Menezes and photographs by Paulo Lorgus

3. Quarteto em Cy from the album Quarteto em Cy (1966, Elenco ME-33)

  
Artwork for Quarteto em Cy by Estudio ID with photograph by Francisco Pereira

4. Francis Hime from the album Francis Hime (1973, Odeon SMOFB 3816)

Selected medleys including Último Canto:

1. Luiz Carlos Vinhas from the album Luis Carlos Vinhas no Flag (1970, Odeon MOFB 3630)

Selected recordings of Último Canto originally not issued in Brazil:

1. Pery Ribeiro e Bossa Três from the album Gemini V en Mexico – Pery Ribeiro, Leny Andrade e Bossa Três (1967, Odeon [MEX] LOM 10053)

   

ÚLTIMO CANTO

Vou acender uma vela • Vou só cantar o meu canto • E vou cantar da maneira, a mais singela • E só depois vou te esquecer • E só depois vou te esquecer

Vou acender uma vela • Vou só chorar o meu pranto • E vou chorar da maneira, a mais singela • E só depois quero esquecer

Quando um amor acaba em pranto • É o mesmo que alguém morrer • Vou acender essa vela • Que é por mim e é por ela

Song No. 157 — Preciso Aprender a Ser Só | Marcos Valle & Paulo Sérgio Valle (1964)

Preciso Aprender a Ser Só was introduced in late 1964 by Sylvia Telles as the B-side to Minha Namorada, arranged and conducted by Lindolpho Gaya. While Minha Namorada became a hit for Os Cariocas, Preciso Aprender a Ser Só enjoyed immediate popularity among musicians and was recorded over 100 times in the 1960s alone.

Sylvia Telles recorded the song two more times in 1966, once live at the Teatro Santa Rosa in Rio de Janeiro with Tamba Trio and Quinteto Villa-Lobos, and once in the studio, arranged and conducted by Lindolpho Gaya and sung with English lyrics by Ray Gilbert titled If You Went Away.

Marcos Valle first recorded the song in 1965 on his album O Compositor e o Cantor with the original lyrics, and instrumentally in 1966 as If You Went Away on his US album Braziliance! Marcos Valle and his Music, both arranged by Eumir Deodato. In 1968 he recorded a vocal version of If You Went Away on his US album Samba ’68.

Titled Learn to Live Alone, Ray Gilbert wrote another English adaptation of the lyrics in 1966, first recorded by Astrud Gilberto with Bob Brookmeyer on trombone, Johnny Coles on trumpet, Ron Carter on guitar and Dom Um Romão on drums, arranged and conducted by Al Cohn.

Among the many fine versions, those of Os Cariocas arranged by Severino Filho, Flora Purim arranged by Cipó and Elis Regina with the Rio 65 Trio are particularly noteworthy.

In 1966, Maysa recorded Preciso Aprender a Ser Só along with her early hits Demais and Meu Mundo Caiu as a medley titled Fantasia de Trombones, exquisitely arranged by Erlon Chaves.

In 1972, Elizeth Cardoso chose Preciso Aprender a Ser Só as the title track for her double album arranged and produced by Erlon Chaves, ending with the full interpretation after two short a cappella versions of 35 and 23 seconds.

Outside Brazil and the USA, Preciso Aprender a Ser Só was apparently first recorded in 1967 by the Italian singer Mina with lyrics adapted by Tania Bellanca. Later, the song was also recorded by Milt Jackson and Sarah Vaughan.

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Selected recordings of Preciso Aprender a Ser Só:

1. Sylvia Telles from the single Minha Namorada b/w Preciso Aprender a Ser Só (1964, Elenco CE-13)

2. J.T. Meirelles e Os Copa 5 from the album O Novo Som (1964, Philips P 632.194 L)

  
Artwork for O Novo Som by Paulo Brèves with photographs by Mafra and Gaúcho

3. Marcos Valle from the album O Compositor e o Cantor (1965, Odeon MOFB 3413)

  
Artwork for O Compositor e o Cantor by Moacyr Rocha with photograph by Mafra

4. Os Cariocas from the album Os Cariocas de Quatrocentas Bossas (1965, Philips P 632.753 L)

   

5. Elis Regina from the album Samba eu Canto Assim (1965, Philips P 632.742 L)

   

6. Rio 65 Trio from the album Rio 65 Trio (1965, Philips P 632.749 L)

  

7. Flora Purim from the EP Flora (1965, RCA Victor LCD-1111)

   

8. Sambalanço Trio from the album Sambalanço Trio (1965, Som Maior SMLP 1501)

  

9. Pery Ribeiro from the album Pery (1965, Odeon MOFB 3418)

10. Zumba Cinco from the album Zumba Cinco (1965, Musidisc Hi-Fi 2128)

   

11. Claudette Soares from the album Claudette Soares (1965, Mocambo LP 40283)

12. Pedrinho Mattar from the album Pedrinho Mattar Trio N^o. 3 (1965, Farroupilha LPFA-405)

  
Artwork for Pedrinho Mattar Trio N^o. 3 by Franklin França

13. Ana Margarida from the album Ana Margarida (1965, Forma FM-9)

14. Geraldo Vespar from the album Samba, Nova Geração (1965, Odeon MOFB 3433)

15.Turma do Bom Balanço from the album A Turma do Bom Balanço (1965, Mocambo LP 40262)

   

16. Alaíde Costa from the album Alaíde Costa (1965, Som Maior SMLP 1503)

  

17. Conjunto 3-D from the album O Trio 3-D Convida (1965, RCA Victor BBL 1332)

18. Jorge Nery from the albums 14 Maiorais N^o. 8 (1965, Copacabana CLP 11448) and Um Show de Bossa em Bossa Copa (1965, Copacabana CLP 11453)

  

19. Milton Banana from the album Vê (1965, Odeon MOFB 3431)

  

20. Yvette from the album Os Grandes Sucessos do Paramount (1965, RGE XRLP 5271)

21. Quinteto Sambatida with Márcio José from the album Música Popular Brasileira em Expansão (1965, Festival FLP-2)

   

22. Sylvia Telles, Tamba Trio e Quinteto Villa-Lobos from the album Reencontro (1966, Elenco ME-31)

   
Artwork for Reencontro by Eddie Moyna with uncredited photographs

23. Sylvia Telles from the album The Face I Love (1966, Kapp Records [USA] KS-3503), reissued as It Might As Well Be Spring (1967, Elenco MEV-11)

   

   
Artwork for It Might As Well Be Spring by César G. Vilela

24. Marcos Valle from the album Braziliance! Marcos Valle and his Music (1966, Warner [USA] WS 1654) and  Braziliance! A Música de Marcos Valle (1967, Odeon MOFB 379)

 

 

25. Lindolfo Gaya and Eumir Deodato from the album Tom Jobim Apresenta (1966, Elenco MEV-10) aka Love, Strings and Jobim – The Eloquence of Antônio Carlos Jobim (1966, Warner Music WS 1636)

   
Art work for Tom Jobim Apresenta by César G. Vilela

   

26. Quarteto Lambari from the album Quarteto Lambari (1966, Farroupilha LPFA-417)

   
Artwork for Quarteto Lambari by Antônio Melero

27. Agostinho dos Santos from the album Agostinho dos Santos (1966, Elenco ME-26)

28. Boliche Trio from the album Boliche Trio (1966, Chantecler CMG 2406)

   

29. Tito Madi from the album Balanço Zona Sul e Outros Sucessos (1966, Odeon MOFB 3444)

30. Conjunto Copacabana Bossa from the album Bossa (1966, Copacabana CLP 11459)

31. Samba Trio from the album Samba Pra Frente (1966, Paladium 60.002)

   
Artwork for Samba Pra Frenteby Fernando

32. Dick Farney e Lindolpho Gaya from the album Dick Farney: Piano / Orquestra: Gaya (1966, Elenco ME-27)

Artwork for Dick Farney: Piano / Orquestra: Gaya by Eddie Moyna with photograph by Francisco Pereira

33. Wilma Bentivegna from the album Preciso Aprender a Ser Só (1966, Philips P 632.784 L)

  

34. Raul de Barros aka Brazilian Serenaders from the album Na Mini Onda (1968, Big/Rioson RSLP 1007)

Artwork for Na Mini Onda by Certezia Manchete

35. Silvio Tancredi from the album Voando com a Sadia (1970, Independente Sadia STA-LPS-001)

   

36. Luis Eça from the album Luis Eça, Piano e Cordas – Vol. II (1970, Elenco SE 1005)

   

37. Elizeth Cardoso from the album Preciso Aprender a Ser Só (1972, Copacabana CLP 11706/7)

Selected medleys including Preciso Aprender a Ser Só:

1. Os 7 Velhinhos from the album Bossa Nova (1965, Musidisc XPL-42)

  

2. Zito Righi aka Bob Fleming from the album O Melhor de Bossa (1965, Masterpiece Master 11045)

3. Maysa from the album Maysa (1966, RCA Victor BBL 1363)

  
Artwork for Maysa by Tebaldo

4. Maysa from the album Canecão Apresenta Maysa (1969, Copacabana CLP 11582)

   

Selected recordings of Preciso Aprender a Ser Só originally not issued in Brazil:

1. Astrud Gilberto from the album Look to the Rainbow (1966, Verve [USA] V-8643)

   

2. Mina from the album Dedicato a Mio Padre (1967, PDU ‎[ITA] Pld. A. 5001)

  

3. Marcos Valle from the album Samba ‘68 (1968, Verve [USA] V6-5053)

   

PRECISO APRENDER A SER SÓ

Ah, se eu te pudesse fazer entender • Sem teu amor eu não posso viver • Que sem nós dois o que resta sou eu • Eu assim tão só • E eu preciso aprender a ser só • Poder dormir sem sentir teu amor • E ver que foi só um sonho e passou

Ah, o amor • Quando é demais ao findar leva a paz • Me entreguei sem pensar • Que a saudade existe e se vem

É tão triste, vê • Meus olhos choram a falta dos teus • Esses teus olhos que foram tão meus • Por Deus entenda que assim eu não vivo • Eu morro pensando no nosso amor

Ah, o amor • Quando é demais ao findar

IF YOU WENT AWAY

Oh If I could just make your heart understand • The way I feel when you’re holding your hands • My world is safe and is worth living for •
Even more with you • I’ve learned to treasure each moment of time • You’ve even taught me how high love can climb • The very thought of you kiss and soar • Even more • My heart is bursting to say even more • You are my smiling sky • You are my sun and my rain, my lost southern snow • And so can you imagine • If you went away

If I should lose you for one precious day • I think I’d cry the biggest • teardrops the whole wide world has ever known • Even more •
My heart is bursting to say even more • You are my smiling sky • You are my sun and my rain, my lost southern snow • And so can you imagine • If you went away • If I should lose you for one precious day • I think I’d cry the biggest teardrops the whole wide world • Has ever known

[English lyrics by Ray Gilbert]

Song No. 133 — A Volta | Roberto Menescal & Ronaldo Bôscoli (1966)

A Volta was introduced in August 1966 by Wilson Miranda as the opening track on his album Pra Quando o Amor Chegar, arranged and conducted by Francisco Moraes.

Shortly after, the song was picked by Pedrinho Mattar with Cyro Pereira and his orchestra.

Apparently, the soulful song was a favourite of Elis Regina as she recorded it three times, first in 1967 as part of a medley recorded live with Jair Rodrigues at the Teatro Paramount de São Paulo, then in 1969 with an orchestra conducted by British musical arranger Peter Knight and with Belgian jazz musician Toots Thielemans.

Although recorded only a few times in its day, A Volta has been icreasingly interpreted through the decades making it a classic in its own right.

Selected recordings of A Volta:

1. Wilson Miranda from the album Pra Quando o Amor Chegar (1966, RCA Victor BBL 1385)

   

2. Pedrinho Mattar from the album Rapsódia (1966, RCA Victor BBL 1388)

   
Artwork for Rapsódia by Tebaldo with drawing by Carlos Alberto Sartoretto

3. Márcia from the album Eu e a Brisa (1968, Philips R 765.035 L)

   

4. Tito Madi from the album Tito Madi em Nova Dimensão (1968, RCA Victor BBL 1454)

5. Luiza from the album Musicanossa – O Som & o Tempo (1968, Odeon MOFB 3532)

   
Artwork for Musicanossa – O Som & o Tempo by Eddie Moyna with photograph by Rubens L. Richter

6. Elis Regina from the album Elis Regina in London (1969, Philips [NL] 840 279 BY), released in Brazil as Elis Regina in London (1972, Philips 6349 042)

   

7. Eduardo Conde from the album Minha Chegada (1969, Philips R 765.082 L)

  

8. Elis Regina and Toots Thielemans from the album Elis & Toots (1969, Philips ‎[SWE] PY 842 564), released in Brazil as Elis Regina e Toots Thielemans (1978, Fontana/Philips 6436 123) and as Honeysuckle Rose Aquarela do Brasil (1978, Elenco ME-162)

   

Selected medleys including A Volta:

1. Elis Regina and Jair Rodrigues from the album Dois na Bossa N^o. 3 (1967, Philips)

   

A VOLTA

Quero ouvir a sua voz • E quero que a canção seja você • E quero, em cada vez que espero • Desesperar se não te ver • É triste a solidão • É longe o não te achar • Que lindo é o seu perdão • Que festa é o seu voltar • Mas quero que você me fale • Que você me cale • Caso eu perguntar • Se o que te fez tão linda ainda • Foi sua pressa de voltar • Levanta e vem correndo • Me abraça e sem sofrer • Me beija longamente • O quanto a solidão • Precisa pra morrer

Song No. 95 — Children’s Games a.k.a. Chovendo na Roseira | Antônio Carlos Jobim (1970)

Chovendo na Roseira was presented in March 1970 as a short instrumental piece entitled Children’s Games, part of of twelve songs composed by Jobim and arranged by Eumir Deodato for the US film The Adventurers. The film was based on the 1966 novel of the same name by Harold Robbins, which retells the life of the jet-set playboy Porfirio Rubirosa. Despite the top-class cast with Charles Aznavour, Ernest Borgnine, Olivia de Havilland and opera star Anna Moffo, the best thing about the film was basically only its “airborne world premiere”, when the film was first shown on the premiere voyage of the Boeing 747 Superjet from New York to Los Angeles in the presence of the stars.

Around the time of the film’s release in March 1970, Jobim recorded a longer version of Children’s Games for his album Stone Flower, which was released in July 1970. Stone Flower was arranged and conducted by Eumir Deodato and produced by Creed Taylor in the studios of legendary jazz sound engineer Rudy van Gelder. The musicians included trombonist Urbie Green, bassist Ron Carter and drummer João Palma.

In Brazil, Children’s Games was first recorded in 1971 by either Osmar Milito or Luiz Carlos Vinhas, both with Jobim’s subsequently added lyrics entitled Chovendo na Roseira. With English lyrics by Gene Lees, titled Double Rainbow, the song was probably first recorded in 1974 by Sérgio Mendes & Brasil ’77.

In the same year, Elis Regina recorded what is probably the best-known version of the song on their joint album with Jobim, entitled Elis & Tom. The album was produced by Aloysio de Oliveira and arranged by César Camargo Mariano, who also played electric piano on Chovendo na Roseira, accompanied by Oscar Castro-Neves on guitar, Luizão Maia on bass, Paulo Braga on drums and either Hubert Laws or Jerome Richardson on flute.

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Selected recordings of Chovendo na Roseira:

1. Antônio Carlos Jobim from the album Stone Flower (1970, CTI Records ‎[USA] CTI 6002 and CTI Records [BRA] LPS 624.513)

   

   
Art work for Stone Flower by Tony Lane with photograph by Pete Turner

2. Luiz Carlos Vinhas and Os Kalangos from the single Capim Gordura b/w Chovendo na Roseira (1971, Tapecar CS-313)

3. Osmar Milito and Quarteto Forma from the album E Deixa o Relógio Andar! (1971, Som Livre SIG 1004)

4. Luiz Eça and Quinteto Villa-Lobos from the album Vanguarda (1972, Odeon SMOFB 3730)

   
Art work for Vanguarda by Joselito

5. Elis Regina and Antônio Carlos Jobim from the album Elis & Tom (1974, Philips 6349 112)

6. Sérgio Mendes & Brasil ’77 from the album Vintage 74 (1974, Circa – 1305)

   

7. Dom Um Romão from the album Hotmosphere (1976, Pablo Records/Philips 2310 777)

   
Art work for Hotmosphere by Norman Granz and Gribbitt with photograph by Monica Botkay

Selected recordings of Chovendo na Roseira originally not issued in Brazil:

1. Antônio Carlos Jobim from the film The Adventurers (1970, Paramount Records [USA] SPFL 260)

   

2. Stan Getz, João Gilberto and Miúcha from the album The Best of Two Worlds – Stan Getz & João Gilberto (1976, Columbia [USA] PC 33703)

Chovendo na Roseira performed by Elis Regina and Antônio Carlos Jobim during the recording sessions in 1974

CHOVENDO NA ROSEIRA

Olha, está chovendo na roseira • Que só dá rosa, mas não cheira • A frescura das gotas úmidas • Que é de Luisa • Que é de Paulinho • Que é de João • Que é de ninguém

Pétalas de rosa carregadas pelo vento • Um amor tão puro carregou meu pensamento • Olha, um tico-tico mora ao lado • E passeando no molhado • Adivinhou a primavera

Olha que chuva boa prazenteira • Que vem molhar minha roseira • Chuva boa criadeira • Que molha a terra • Que enche o rio • Que limpa o céu • Que traz o azul

Olha o jasmineiro está florido • E o riachinho de água esperta • Se lança em vasto rio de águas calmas • Ah, você é de ninguém • Ah, você é de ninguém

DOUBLE RAINBOW

Listen • The rain is falling on the roses • The fragrance drifts across the garden • Like the scent of some forgotten melody • This melody belongs to you • Belongs to me, belongs to no one

See the way the crimson petals • Scatter when the wind blows • Ah, the secret sigh of love • That suddenly the heart knows • See how a robin’s there among the puddless • And, hopping through the misty rain drops • He’s come to tell us it is spring

Look at the double rainbow • The rain is silver in the sun light • A fleeting fox is in the garden • Rain sweet lovin’mother rain • That soaks the earth • That swells the streams • That cleans the sky • And brings the blue

See how the jasmin tree is all in flower • The little brook of clever waters • Flows into a vast river • Ah, you belong to no one • Ah, you belong to no one

Song No. 14 — Murmúrio | Djalma Ferreira & Luiz Antônio (1960)

Murmúrio was introduced in 1960 by the composer Djalma Ferreira himself on his album Convite ao Drink, featuring singer Luiz Bandeira and chorus. The next year, Ferreira issued a rather restrained second version on Drink em São Paulo, before he released a slightly altered instrumental version of his original arrangement on his follow-up album Combinação Insuperável, and finally, a third arrangement on Baile de Formatura with wind section.

In single format, Murmúrio was released only in 1960 by Vera Maria and in 1961 by Miltinho whose fabulous version became one of his most popular hits. Nelsinho’s striking arrangement for Miltinho was reutilised the same year for Fafá Lemos’s version. Miltinho re-recorded Murmúrio the following year on his first greatest hits album, this time arranged by Ruben Perez ‘Pocho’. ‘Pocho’ also arranged Maysa’s tasteful interpretation, and his arrangement was reutilised likewise on an instrumental album, this time by Héctor Costita on his alias debut as Don Júnior.

Pianist Izio Gross added two of the song’s finest versions to the list, first in 1961 on his debut album Isto é Bossa, featuring Édison Machado on drums.

Sixteen year old Elis Regina included her fine performance of Murmúrio, elegantly arranged by Severino Filho, on her debut album Viva a Brotolândia. Same year, same label, Steve Bernard reutilised either the arrangement or probably the backing track on his album Nunca Num Domingo.

Rumour has it that the mysterious L’Orchestre Brésilien ‘Ritmo da Bossa’, releasing a jolly rendition of Murmúrio in 1962 in France, might actually be the alias of Silvio Silveira since he also recorded as Les Rhytmes Brésiliens de Silvio Silveira, Silvio Silveira et Son Grand Orchestre Brésilien and Silvio Silveira y Sus Ritmos Brasileños.

The equally enigmatic Conjunto Balambossa, in fact an alias used by the label Coledisc to compile albums from original releases by various artists, issued a  rendition of Murmúrio which is actually Celso Murilo’s version from his debut album Sambas na Passarela. Celso Murilo also played the organ along with Baden Powell on guitar, Luis Marinho on bass, Milton Banana on drums and Rubens Bassini on congo as one of guitarist Paulo Nunes’s Night Boys on his debut album Certinho Para Dançar.

The song enjoyed quite some popularity among musicians with fine interpretations by Moacyr Silva, Pedrinho Mattar, Turquinho and Luiz Bonfá. However, recordings were limited until 1964 with an outlier in 1968 when soprano Lenita Bruno recorded the final rendition with adapted English lyrics by Ben Raleigh. Then, Murmúrio was unfairly buried in oblivion after about 35 recordings.

Selected recordings of Murmúrio:

1. Djalma Ferreira featuring Luiz Bandeira from the album Convite ao Drink (1960, Discos Drink LP-DF-13.006)

Art work for Convite ao Drink by Joselito with photograph by Mafra

2. Djalma Ferreira from the album Drink em São Paulo (1960, Discos Drink DLP-DF-13.007)

  

3. Djalma Ferreira from the album Combinação Insuperável (1960, Discos Drink DF-LP-13.008)

4. Miltinho from the album Miltinho (1961, RCA Victor BBL 1113)

   

5. Fafá Lemos from the album Dó-Ré-Mi-Fafá Lemos (1961, RCA Victor BBL 1145)

   

6. Izio Gross from the album Isto é Bossa (1961, Mocambo LP 40064)

   

7. Moacyr Silva from the album Samba é Bom Assim (1961, Copacabana CLP 11220)

   

8. Elis Regina from the album Viva a Brotolândia (1961, Continental LPP 3161)

   

9. Steve Bernard from the album Nunca Num Domingo (1961, Continental LPP 3165)

  

10. Maysa from the album Maysa, Amor… e Maysa (1961, RGE XRLP 5121)

   

11. Héctor Costita aka Don Júnior from the album Sambas – Don Júnior e Seu Sax Maravilhoso (1961, RGE XRLP 5131)

   
Art work for Sambas – Don Júnior e Seu Sax Maravilhoso by Patricio Marre

12. Cauby Peixoto from the album Cauby Canta Novos Succesos (1961, RCA Victor BBL 1123)

13. Celso Murilo from the album Sambas na Passarela (1961, Pawal P-20.002), also issued on the compilation album Samba ao Vivo credited Conjunto Balambossa (c. 1963, Coledisc CD 012)

   
Art work for Sambas na Passarela by Walter Pinto with photograph by Mafra

   

14. Carlos Lacerda from the album O Governador do Teclado Interpreta Djalma Ferreira (1961, Carroussell SELP 3007)

   

15. Renato de Oliveira aka Cid Gray from the album Só Samba Sabendo Sambar (1961, Continental LPP 3160)

   

16. Paulinho & Seus Night Boys from the album Certinho Para Dançar (1961, RCA Camden CALB 5015)

17. Erlon Chaves from the album Em Tempo de Samba (1961, RCA Victor BBL 1157)

   

18. Walter Wanderley from the album Samba é Samba com Walter Wanderley (1961, Odeon MOFB 3248)

   

19. Miltinho from the album Os Grandes Successos de Miltinho (1962, RGE XRLP 5135)

  

20. Zaccarias from the album Palhêtas Espetaculares (1962, RCA Victor BBL 1177)

  
Art work for Palhêtas Espetaculares by Studio Mafra

21. Luiz Bonfá from the album O Violão e o Samba (1962, Odeon MOFB 3295)

   
Art work for O Violão e o Samba by Mafra

22. Djalma Ferreira from the album Baile de Formatura (1962, Discos Drink DF-LP-13.009)

  

23. Pedrinho Mattar from the album Bossa Nova (1963, Farroupilha LPFR-600)

24. Turquinho from the album Samba de Bossa (1963, Chantecler CMG 2212)

  

25. Os Diplomatas no Samba & Paulo Roberto from the album Os Diplomatas no Samba com Paulo Roberto ao Órgão (1963, Philips P 632.148 L)

  

26. Joe Hammond from the album Discoteca Dançante N^o. 2 (1965, Fantasia FLP 2008)

  

27. Lenita Bruno from the album Lenita Bruno em Hollywood (1968, Fermata FB 235), with English lyrics by Ben Raleigh

  

Selected versions of Murmúrio originally not issued in Brazil:

1. L’Orchestre Brésilien ‘Ritmo da Bossa’ from the album Bossa Nova (1962, Barclay [France] CDF 532)

   

2. Lalo Schifrin from the album Piano, Strings and Bossa Nova (1962, Verve Records [USA] V6-8785)

  
Uncredited art work for Piano, Strings and Bossa Nova with photograph by Lee Friedlander

3. Izio Gross from the album Bossa Nova in Rhythm (c. 1963, Kristal Linea Económica Kubaney [Mexico] KS-1154)

MURMÚRIO

Vai, nessa canção • Meu último adeus • Coração, sonha em vão • Com os beijos teus • Foi essa canção que eu murmurei • Tu também longe além, murmuraste eu sei

Há nesse murmúrio uma saudade • A vontade louca de voltar • Ser como era antes, mesmo por instante • E depois morrer pra não chorar

Vai, vai nessa canção • Meu último adeus • Coração, sonha em vão • Com os beijos teus • Foi nessa canção que eu murmurei • Tu também, longe longe além • Murmuraste eu sei, murmuraste eu sei, murmuraste eu sei

MURMUR

It goes, in this song • My last goodbye • Heart dreams in vain • About your kisses • It was this song I murmured • You too, far beyond, murmured, I know

There is in this murmur a longing • The wild desire of going back • To be how it was before, even for a moment • And then die so as not to cry

It goes, goes in this song • My last goodbye • Heart dreams in vain • About your kisses • It was this song I murmured • You too, far, far beyond • Murmured, I know; murmured, I know; murmured, I know

[English translation by Maria Catarina Correa Gestinari]

Song No. 9 — Sou Sem Paz | Adylson Godoy (1964)

Sou Sem Paz was introduced by Zimbo Trio 1964 on their self-titled debut album. The song enjoyed only a short-lived popularity with about eight recordings in four years.

Composer Adylson Godoy released his own version as the title track of his debut album in 1965. Although the accompanying single Sou Sem Paz b/w Não Chora Não, Zé didn’t chart, the album with its first-rate arrangements by Erlon Chaves remains as Godoy’s sole yet critically acclaimed original album.

Elis Regina issued her version of Sou Sem Paz, arranged by Luiz Chaves, as b-side to O Menino das Larranjas, a single which reached number 4 in March 1965. The same year, she recorded the song also with spanish lyrics.

Except for these three vocal renditions, Sou Sem Paz has always been recorded as an instrumental piece, last issued by Kuntz Naegele’s one time studio group Som Nove in 1968, most likely due to its perfect suitability for jazz improvisations.

Selected recordings of Sou Sem Paz:

1. Zimbo Trio from the album Zimbo Trio (1964, RGE XRLP 5253)

   
Art work for Zimbo Trio by Cosentini with photographs by José Pinto

2. Adylson Godoy from the album Sou Sem Paz (1965, RGE XRLP 5276)

   

3. Os Tatuís from the album Os Tatuís (1965, Farroupilha LPFA-410)

4. Elis Regina from the album Samba Eu Canto Assim (1965, Philips P 632.742 L)

   

5. Sansa Trio from the album Sansa Trio Vol. 2 (1965, Som Maior SMLP 1515)

   

6. Som Nove from the album Som Nove (1968, Ritmos/Codil CDL 13010)

   
Art work for Som Nove by Joselito with photograph by Mafra

SOU SEM PAZ

Tento em mim seu amor • Nasceu como uma flor cantando bem • E ninguém jamais amou assim • Nunca assim • Sofro sem tudo em mim • É só tristeza e dor • É só você e a felicidade que se foi • Que se foi

Você fugiu de mim • E triste, amor, eu canto assim • É a saudade em mim • Volte então, sou sem paz • Com o seu amor e a felicidade que virá • Que virá