Song No. 186 — Carinho e Amor | Tito Madi (1959)

Carinho e Amor was introduced in late 1959 by Tito Madi as B-Side to Menina Moça. In early 1960, the song was also released on the EP Menina Moça and became the title track of Madi’s collaboration album with Ribamar. Although only the B-side to Menina Moça, the 1960 annual charts also list Carinho e Amor at number 62 in addition to Menina Moça at number 6.

Carminha Mascarenhas and Toni Vestane were the first to record the song before the end of 1959, followed by over 20 recordings during 1960 and a few more until 1963, after which only two more recordings followed in 1976 by Claudette Soares and in 2019 by Nana Caymmi. Interestingly, Tito Madi himself did not re-record Carinho e Amor later like other of his compositions, although it is one of his best known songs.

Nelsinho’s arrangement for Luiz Cláudio‘s version was reutilised for Sandoval Dias on the hit compilation album Sucessos Dançantes.

Selected recordings of Carinho e Amor:

1. Tito Madi from the single Menina Moça b/w Carinho e Amor (1959, Columbia 3.101), the EP Menina Moça (1960, Columbia 56016) and the album Carinho e Amor – Tito Madi e Ribamar (1960, Columbia LPCB 70003)

   

2. Toni Vestane from the album Toni (1959, Musidisc Hi-Fi 2039)

3. Casé from the album Samba Irresistível (1960, Hi-Fi Variety Hi-Fi 1003)

   

4. Luiz Cláudio from the single Só Deus b/w Carinho e Amor (1960, RCA Victor 80-2158) and the album Luiz Cláudio (1960, RCA Victor BBL 1065)

   

5. Sandoval Dias from the album Sucessos Dançantes (1960, RCA Camden CALB 5000)

   

6. Breno Sauer Quinteto from the album Viva a Música (1960, Columbia LPCB 37095)

   

7. Ted Moreno from the album Samba que a Vida Escreveu (1960, Continental LPP 3105)

   

8. Dionysio from the album Sax Magia aka Sax em Orbita (1960, Internacional CID 27020)

   

   

9. Maysa from the album Voltei (1960, RGE XRLP 5078)

   

10. Fats Elpídio from the album Piano Bossa Nova (1960, RCA Victor BBL 1102)

   

11. Francisco Moraes from the album O Baile da Menina Moça (1960, Odeon MOFB 3167)

   
Artwork for O Baile da Menina Moça by César G. Villela with photographs by Francisco Rerreira

12. Steve Bernard from the album Top Hit Party (1960, Continental LPP 3108)

   

13. Luiz Arruda Paes from the album Brasil Moreno (1960, Odeon MOFB 3159)

   

14. Ruben Perez ‘Pocho’ from the album Dançando com Sucessos (1960, RGE XRLP 5076)

   

15. Os Mocorongos from the album Baile de Estudantes (1960, Mocambo LP 40046)

   

16. Morgana from the album Morgana (1960, Copacabana CLP 11161)

   

17. Moacyr Silva from the album Sax Sensacional (1960, Copacabana CLP 11147)

   

18. Carolina Cardoso de Menezes from the album Encontro de Ritmos (1960, Helium HLP 36003)

   

19. Renato Tito from the album Gingando na Bossa (1961, Carroussell SELP 3001)

   
Artwork for Gingando na Bossa by Washington Salles

20. Napoleão Tavares from the album Parada Musical (1962, Pawal P-20.005)

   

21. Claudette Soares from the album Fiz do Amor Meu Canto (1976, Odeon SMOFB 3925)

   
Artwork for Fiz do Amor Meu Canto by Tadeu Valerio de Jesus with photographs by Cynira Arruda

Selected medleys including Carinho e Amor:

1. Sexteto Prestige from the album Música e Festa N^o. 5 (1960, Prestige DLP 1013)

   

2. Zito Righi aka Bob Fleming from the album Bob Fleming (1961, Musidisc XPL-6)

   
Artwork for Bob Fleming by Joselito

CARINHO E AMOR

Se você quer voltar • Você quem manda amor • Nem tudo está perdido • Em nossa vida

Se eu choro por você • Você também por mim • Por que sofrer assim • Por que chorar assim

Se quer me devolver • Toda a alegria • Esqueça este orgulho • Que nos mata

E volte, por favor • Venha correndo • Que estarei para lhe dar • Carinho e muito amor.

One-day Wonders — Pt. 1

Some songs have been recorded umpteen times, and sometimes it is difficult to find out how many versions actually exist. At the other end of the spectrum, many a treasure is hidden that, despite its often well-known composers, lyricists and performers, has only been recorded once. They deserve just as much not to be unheard—so let’s clear the stage for these one-day wonders!

1. Roberto Luna: Longe de Ti (Fernando César & Esther Delamare) from the single Arrependimento b/w Longe de Ti (1959, RGE 10.190), arranged and conducted by Henrique Simonetti

2. Elza Laranjeira: Eu Nem Me Lembro Mais de Ti (Klécius Caldas & Victor Freire) from the single Água de Beber b/w Eu Nem Me Lembro Mais de Ti (1961, RGE 10.288) and the album Ternura (1961, RGE XRLP 5102), arranged and conducted by Henrique Simonetti

   

3. Miltinho: Perdoa Coração (Marino Pinto & Aloísio de Barros) from the album Poema do Adeus (1961, RGE XRLP 5103), arranged and conducted by Ruben Perez ‘Pocho’

    

4. Dóris Monteiro: Em Tom de Sofrer (Armando Cavalcanti & Victor Freire) from the album Doris Monteiro (1961, Philips P 630.454 L), arranged and conducted by Carlos Monteiro de Souza

5. Luiz Cláudio: Basta Olhar Pra Mim (Edson Menezes & Roberto Faissal) from the single Basta Olhar Pra Mim b/w Lábios Vermelhos (1961. RCA Victor 80-2298) and the album O Romântico Luiz Claudio (1961, RCA Victor BBL 1111)

   

6. Lana Bittencourt: Longe é o Céu (Antônio Carlos Jobim) from the album Sambas do Rio (1961, Columbia LPCB 37152) with Astor Silva e Seus Metais Dançantes

   

7. Agostinho dos Santos: Até o Nome é Maria (Billy Blanco) from the album Agostinho Espetacular (1958, RGE XRLP 5033), arranged and conducted by Henrique Simonetti

8. Ângela Maria: Para Não Sofrer (Renan França & Antero de Matos) from the album Quando a Noite Vem – Ângela Maria uma Voz Para Milhões (1961, Continental LPP 3144)

   
Artwork for Quando a Noite Vem – Ângela Maria uma Voz Para Milhões by Joselito with photograph by Mafra

9. Golden Boys: Mais que Todo o Amor (Fernando César & João Leal Brito ‘Britinho’) from the album Uma Milhão por uma Canção (1963, Philips P 632.179 L), arranged and conducted by Lindolpho Gaya

10. Lucienne Franco: Da Rosa que Nasceu Nosso Amor (Baden Powell & Heloísa Setta) from the album Lucienne é Amor (1962, Copacabana CLP 11235), arranged by Baden Powell and directed by Moacyr Silva

   
Artwork for Lucienne é Amor by Sérgio Malta

Song No. 115 — Quero-te Assim | Tito Madi (1957)

Quero-te Assim was released on at least five singles in 1957 by Tito Madi, Luiz Cláudio, Vera Lúcia, Sidney Morais and Ivon Cury. Dates of recordings and releases are not all provable and may diverge widely as with Gregorio Barros’ version which was recorded in November 1957 but released in March 1958. What seems certain is that Vera Lúcia’s version was released in August, Tito Madi’s in October and Ivon Cury’s in November 1957. Only Luiz Cláudio featured the song as an A-side release, moreover, most reliable sources state his version as the first one. However, it was the version by the composer himself, though issued only as a B-side, that became the most successful one, ranking at number 53 of 1957.

Two years after its single release, Tito Madi included Quero-te Assim as the opening track of his album of the same name. The song was included on four more of Madi’s original albums, although once performed by Nelly Martins, once by Ribamar and only in 1973 and 1995 with reinterpretations by Madi himself.

Except for the years from 1960 to 1970, the song enjoyed about 35 recordings to date, mostly in its original time as a waltz.

Selected recordings of Quero-te Assim:

1. Luiz Cláudio from the single Quero-te Assim b/w (1957, Columbia CB-10.350-a) album Sonhando com Luiz Cláudio (1957, Columbia LPCB 35043)

2. Tito Madi from the single Se Todos Fossem Iguais A Você b/w Quero-te Assim (1957, Continental 17.482-a) and the album Quero-te Assim (1959, Continental LPP 3072)

3. Ivon Cury from the single Carrossel (round And Round) b/w Quero-te Assim (1957, RCA Victor 80-1859-a) and the album Eu Canto Assim (1958, RCA Victor BPL 15)

   

4. Irany Pinto, José Menezes, Moacyr Silva & Sivuca from the album 4 Azes em Hi-Fi (1958, Copacabana CLP 11057)

  

5. Sylvia Telles from the album Silvia (1958, Odeon MOFB 3034)

   

6. Portinho from the album Ritmo das Américas (1958, Odeon MOCB 3027)

7. Moacyr Silva & Marisa Gata Mansa from the album Convite a Música N^o. 2 (1958, Copacabana CLP 11063)

   

8. Nelly Martins from the album Encontro no Sábado – Com Nelly Martins e Tito Madi (1959, Continental LPP 3051)

9. Lana Bittencourt from the single Escala de Cores b/w I Wish (Quero-te Assim) (1959, Columbia CB-11.138-a)

10. Ribamar & Coro de Severino Filho from the album Carinho e Amor (1960, Columbia LPCB 70003)

   

11. Altemar Dutra from the album O Romântico (1970, Odeon MOFB 3624)

   

12. Miltinho from the album Dóris, Miltinho e Charme – Vol. 2 (1971, Odeon MOFB 3680)

   

13. Tito Madi from the album A Fossa Vol. 3 (1973, London/Odeon LLB 1087-S)

   

14. Claudette Soares from the album Fiz do Amor Meu Canto (1976, Odeon SMOFB 3925)

   
Art work for Fiz do Amor Meu Canto by Tadeu Valerio de Jesus with photographs by Cynira Arruda

QUERO-TE ASSIM

Quero todo teu olhar no meu • Quero todo teu amor pra mim • Quero ser todinho teu enfim • Fazer feliz e ser feliz • Quero estar contigo a dançar • Com tua mão acariciando a mim • O meu rosto encostadinho ao teu • Assim, assim, assim

E depois se entre nos houver • A distancia a nos separar • Quero que teu pensamento vá • Me procurar, procurar • Eu também estarei pensando em ti • Com o meu amor que Deus mandou enfim • Deixa-me abraçar-te agora, assim • Assim, assim, assim

Song No. 36 — Recado | Djalma Ferreira & Luiz Antônio (1959)

Recado was introduced in 1959 in quick succession on ten single releases including five A-sides by Sônia Dutra, Abel Ferreira, Miltinho, Vera Lúcia and Maysa. The debut version is unidentified but evidence suggests that it might be the one by Miltinho which, unfortunately, seems not available anymore. However, it’s clear that Carmélia Alves recorded the song in May, Carlos José and Luiz Bandeira recorded and issued it in June, and Sônia Dutra recorded it in April and issued it in July. In addition, Recado appeared on at least twenty albums that year alone. However, it was Maysa’s version, released in June, that became one of the biggest hit singles of 1959.

Maybe due to the extent of its instant popularity, the song was rather short-lived, as recordings decreased considerably after about two years. Then again, Recado became internationally successful, often entitled Recado Bossa Nova when recorded as an instrumental or The Gift when sung with the English lyrics written by Paul Francis Webster.

Over time, quite a few jazz musicians included Recado in their repertoire, like tenor saxophonists Zoot Sims and Hank Mobley, trumpeter Roy Eldridge and vibraphonist Lionel Hampton.

Caterina Valente’s version, sung with its original lyrics by Luiz Antônio, helped popularize Recado in Europe. As it was frequent practice in those days for songs which became successful cross-border, Recado was recorded in various languages, for example in Finnish as Yön Äänet by Laila Kinnunen, in French as Loin de Toi by Sacha Distel, and in Serbian as Poruka by Nada Knežević.

Selected recordings of Recado:

1. Maysa from the album Maysa é Maysa… é Maysa, é Maysa (1959, RGE XRLP 5068)

   

2. Djalma Ferreira from the album Drink no Rio de Janeiro (1959, Discos Drink DF-LPA-13.005)

   

3. Luiz Cláudio from the single Venus b/w Recado (1959, Columbia CB-11.131-a) and the motion picture soundtrack to Matemática, Zero… Amor, Dez (1959, Columbia LPCB 37089)

   

4. Maurílio Santos from the album Convite Para Dançar Vol. 2 (1959, RCA Victor BBL 1043)

  

5. Quinteto OK & José Menezes from the album 100% Dançante (1959, Sinter SLP 1777)

6. Abel Ferreira from the album Jantar Dançante N^o. 2 (1959, Copacabana CLP 11109)

7. Dalton Vogeler from the album O Melhor da Festa (1959, Internacional CID 27016)

8. Turma da Bossa from the album Sambas de Bossa Nova (1959, Musidisc Hi-Fi 2023)

  

9. Renato de Oliveira aka Cid Gray from the albums Soirée Dançante Vol. 2 (1959, RGE XRLP 5056) and Samba Samba Samba (1959, SBA 001)

   

10. Os Saxsambistas Brasileiros from the album Bossa Nova Espetacalar (1962, Plaza PZ 7013)

  

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

  

12. Sivuca from the album Sivuca et Les Rythmes Brésiliens de Silvio Silveira ‎– Samba “Nouvelle Vague” (1962, Barclay [FRA] 82 277), re-issued as Rendez-vous a Rio (1969, Barclay [FRA] 920 105), issued in Brazil as Sivuca (1969, EBRAU EBLP 920.105)

   

   

   

Selected medleys including Recado:

1. Octeto Columbia & João Leal Brito ‘Britinho’ from the album Sambas e Boleros (1959, Columbia LPCB 37079)

  

2. Moacyr Silva from the album Dançando com Você N^o. 4 (1959, Copacabana CLP 11117)

   

3. Sylvio Mazzucca from the album Baile de Sucessos (1959, Columbia LPCB 37050)

  

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

  

5. Miltinho from the album Miltinho ao Vivo (1965, RGE XRLP 5281)

   

Selected recordings of Recado originally not issued in Brazil:

1. Caterina Valente & Edmundo Ros from the album Valente & Ros – Fire & Frenzy (1960, London Records [USA] SW 99019)

  

2. Elek Bacsik from the EP Bossa Nova (1960, Fontana [FRA] 460112 TE)

  

3. L’Orchestre Brésilien ‘Ritmo da Bossa’ from the album Bossa Nova (c. 1961, Barclay [France] CDF 532)

4. Laila Kinnunen from the single Yön Äänet (Recado) b/w Epävireiset Sydämet (Desafinado) (1962, Scandia [Finland] KS 458) and the EP Bossa Nova (1963, Scandia [Finland] SEP 179)

5. Zoot Sims from the album New Beat Bossa Nova Means the Samba Swings (1962, Colpix Records ‎[USA] CP 435)

  

6. Vi Velasco & Zoot Sims from the album Cantando Bossa Nova Means Singing The Bossa Nova (1962, Colpix Records ‎[USA] CP 438)

  

7. Sacha Distel from the EP Sacha Bossa Nova (1962, RCA Victor [FRA] 86.004M)

  

8. Pat Thomas from the album Desafinado (1962, MGM Records ‎[USA] SE 4103)

  

9. Les Elgart from the single Recado Bossa Nova b/w All Alone Am I (1962, Columbia [USA] 4-42622)

10. Eydie Gormé from the album Blame it on the Bossa Nova (1963, Columbia [USA] CS 8812)

  

11. Lionel Hampton from the album Bossa Nova Jazz (1963, Glad-Hamp Records [USA] 1004)

  

12. Nada Knežević from the EP N. Knežević (1964, PGP RTB [YUG] EP 50212)

13. Hank Mobley from the album Dippin’ (1965, Blue Note [USA] BLP 4209)

  

14. Enoch Light & The Light Brigade from the album Future Sound Shock (1973, Project 3 Total Sound ‎[USA] PR 5077 SD)

15. Manuel and the Music from the Mountains from the album El Bimbo (1975, Studio 2 Stereo [UK] TWOX 1042)

  

16. Roy Eldridge from the album What It’s All About (1976, Pablo Records ‎2310-766)

RECADO

Você, errou quando olhou, pra mim • Uma esperança, fez nascer, em mim • Depois levou, pra tão longe de nós • Seu olhar no meu, a sua voz

Você deixou, sem querer deixar • Uma saudade, enorme em seu lugar • Depois nós dois, cada qual a mercê do seu destino • Você sem mim, eu sem você

Saudade, meu moleque de recado • Não diga que eu me encontro nesse estado

Você deixou, sem querer deixar • Uma saudade, enorme em seu lugar • Depois nós dois, cada qual a mercê do seu destino • Você sem mim, eu sem você

No. 21 — Pages 150–151: Tito Madi | Luiz Cláudio

• Luiz Cláudio — O Romántico Luiz Claudio
  (1961) RCA Victor BBL 1111
• Luiz Cláudio — Encontro com Luiz Cláudio
  (1956) Columbia LPCB 35022
• Tito Madi — E a Chuva Continua
  (1959) Continental LPP 3081
• Maysa — Maysa
  (1957) RGE RLP 015
• Moacyr Silva — Moacyr Silva
  (1956) Copacabana CLP 3081
• Luiz Bonfá — Alta Versatilidade
  (1957) Odeon MOFB 3003
• Leny Andrade — A Sensação
  (1961) RCA Victor BBL 1128
• Francisco Petrônio, Dilermando Reis — Uma Voz e um Violão em Serenata
  (1962) Continental PPL 12038

This double-page spread from the book features the crooners Tito Madi and Luiz Cláudio.

Chauki Maddi (1929-2018), better known as Tito Madi, is considered as one of Brazil’s greatest singer-songwriters, renowned for his romantic ballads such as Chove Lá Fora, Não Diga Não, Cansei de Ilusão, Olhe-me, Diga-me, Carinho e Amor and Amor e Paz. A child of Libanese immigrants, he grew up in a musical family listening to people playing instruments all around him. He was playing the guitar, the lute and the mandolin himself, performing at school parties and other venues. In 1946 he started working for radio stations as a speaker and writer, before he enjoyed his first recording in 1952. In 1957 the self-penned single Chove Lá Fora b/w Gauchinha Bem Querer became his first big success and Chove Lá Fora the title track of his debut album with more than forty albums to follow. Chove Lá Fora was also covered in the U.S. as It’s Raining Outside by Della Reese as well as The Platters, who also covered Rio Triste as Sad River and Quero-te assim as I Wish.

In 1959, Tito Madi recorded the album Encontro no Sábado with singer and pianist Nelly Martins, arranged and conducted by her husband Radamés Gnattali, who also arranged and conducted Tito Madi’s beautiful follow-up album Quero-te Assim. The following year Madi collaborated with pianist and composer Ribamar on the album Carinho e Amor. In 1961 arranger and conductor Lyrio Panicali supported Tito Madi on the album Canção dos Olhos Tristes which included the marvellous É Fácil Dizer Adeus, a very popular composition by Tito Madi introduced the previous year by Elizeth Cardoso and Moacyr Silva on their album Sax – Voz.

In the mid-sixties Tito Madi reduced his mostly lush orchestral settings to more intimate backings. In the early seventies he enjoyed another big success with the album series A Fossa Vol. 1-4, cleverly reviving ballads like Canção de Amor by Chocolate and Elano de Paula, and Molambo by Jaime Florence ‘Meira’ and Augusto Mesquita in a contemporary style along with more recent songs.

The lyrical singer became one of the few not only to successfully change from fifties samba-canção to sixties bossa nova but to affect both with his compositions.

Playlist Tito Madi:
1. Quero-te Assim (Tito Madi) from the single Se Todos Fossem Iguais a Você b/w Quero-te Assim (1957) and the album Quero-te Assim (1959)
2. É Fácil Dizer Adeus (Tito Madi) from the album Canção dos Olhos Tristes (1961)
3. Carinho e Amor (Tito Madi) from the album Carinho e Amor – Tito Madi/Ribamar (1960)
4. Chove Lá Fora (Tito Madi) from the album Chove Lá Fora (1957)
5. Além do Céu (Édson Borges – Sidney Morais) from the album Quero-te Assim (1959)
6. Duas Vidas (Esdras Pereira da Silva – Ribamar) from the album Chove Lá Fora (1957)
7. Está Nascendo um Samba (Tito Madi – Romeo Nunes) from the album Amor e Paz (1963)
8. Olhar Só Por Olhar (Tito Madi) from the album Sonho e Esperança (1961)
9. Deixa o Morro Cantar (Tito Madi) from the single Deixa o Morro Cantar b/w As Flores Também Vivem De Amor (1965) and the album Balanço Zona Sul e Outros Sucessos (1966)
10. Franqueza (Denis Brean – Osvaldo Guilherme) from the album Tito Madi em Nova Dimensão (1968)

Balanço Zona Sul and Minha performed by Tito Madi with Luiz Melo Trio on TV (1972)

The artwork for E a Chuva Continua perfectly radiates the atmosphere of this compilation of early hits by Tito Madi.

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The original artwork for Luiz Bonfá’s Alta Versatilidade was reworked for the US showing a cover from the same series of photographs but without the female admirer.

  

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Luiz Cláudio de Castro (1935-2013) was playing the ukulele at the age of seven and started his musical career at the age of 14 as part of the trio Trovadores do Luar, singing for Rádio Inconfidência de Belo Horizonte, before graduating from Escola Nacional de Arquitetura Rio de Janeiro. In 1952, he recorded the first of some 40 singles including Bem Juntinhos, Joga a Rede No Mar, Este Seu Olhar, Suas Mãos, and Só Deus, which were big hits in their time. In 1957, Luiz Cláudio also introduced Tito Madi’s Quero-te Assim on single with Anda Jerico as b-side, and, in 1960, scored another success with his rendition of Tito’s Madis Carinho e Amor. In 1956, Encontro com Luiz Cláudio was the first of his ten original albums, including also his first self-penned compositions. His songs like Deixa A Nega Gingar and Noite de Ficar Sozinho were appreciated by the likes of Elza Soares, Trio Surdina and Elizeth Cardoso.

Having a velvety tenor voice, Luiz Cláudio was most notably known during his heydey as a crooner with orchestral backing. On his later albums he used to perform with the more laid-back bossa nova tinge.

Playlist Luiz Cláudio:
1. Bem Juntinhos (Bueno Braga – Moacir Lima) from the album Bem Juntinhos (1959)
2. Tira Esse Sorriso do Caminho (Ivon Cury) from the album O Romántico Luiz Claudio (1961)
3. Recado (Djalma Ferreira – Luis Antônio) from the single Venus b/w Recado (1959)
4. Basta Olhar Pra Mim (Édson Menezes – Roberto Faissal) from the album O Romántico Luiz Claudio (1961)
5. Joga a Rede no Mar (Fernando César – Nazareno de Brito) from the album Encontro com Luiz Claudio (1956)
6. Quero-te Assim (Tito Madi) from the album Bem Juntinhos (1959)
7. Razão (Alberto Arantes – Sérgio Bittencourt) from the album Entre Nós (1966)

Luiz Cláudio’s album covers followed the trends of his time showing the singer mostly in romantic settings with his guitar.

  

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