domingo, outubro 13, 2024
Música de aniversariante de hoje...
Postado por Pedro Luna às 08:30 0 bocas
Marcadores: Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes, folk pop, folk rock, música, Paul Simon, Rock, Simon and Garfunkel, world music
Paul Simon celebra hoje oitenta e três anos
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:08 0 bocas
Marcadores: folk pop, folk rock, música, Paul Simon, Rock, Simon and Garfunkel, The Sound of Silence, world music
quinta-feira, setembro 19, 2024
Simon & Garfunkel fizeram um memorável concerto no Central Park há 43 anos...
The concept of a benefit concert in Central Park had been proposed by Parks Commissioner Gordon Davis and promoter Ron Delsener. Television channel HBO agreed to carry the concert, and they worked with Delsener to decide on Simon and Garfunkel as the appropriate act for this event. Besides hits from their years as a duo, their 21-song set list included material from their solo careers, and covers. Amongst them were "The Sound of Silence", "Mrs. Robinson", "The Boxer" and Simon's "Late in the Evening", with the show concluding with a reprise of the latter. Ongoing personal tensions between the duo led them to decide against a permanent reunion, despite the success of the concert and a subsequent world tour.
The album and film were released the year after the concert. Simon and Garfunkel's performance was praised by music critics and the album was commercially successful, peaking No. 6 on the Billboard 200 album charts and being certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The video recordings were initially broadcast on HBO and were subsequently made available on Laserdisc, CED, VHS and DVD. A single was released of Simon and Garfunkel‘s live performance of The Everly Brothers‘s song "Wake Up Little Susie". It reached No. 27 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1982 and is the duo's last Top 40 hit.
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Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:43 0 bocas
Marcadores: America, Art Garfunkel, Central Park, folk pop, folk rock, Nova Iorque, Paul Simon, Rock, Simon and Garfunkel, The Concert in Central Park, world music
sexta-feira, outubro 13, 2023
Música adequada à data...!
Postado por Pedro Luna às 08:20 0 bocas
Marcadores: folk pop, folk rock, música, Paul Simon, Rock, Simon and Garfunkel, world music, You Can Call Me Al
Paul Simon celebra hoje oitenta e dois anos
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:08 0 bocas
Marcadores: folk pop, folk rock, música, Paul Simon, Rock, Simon and Garfunkel, The Sound of Silence, world music
terça-feira, setembro 19, 2023
Há 42 anos Simon & Garfunkel fizeram um memorável concerto no Central Park...
The concept of a benefit concert in Central Park had been proposed by Parks Commissioner Gordon Davis and promoter Ron Delsener. Television channel HBO agreed to carry the concert, and they worked with Delsener to decide on Simon and Garfunkel as the appropriate act for this event. Besides hits from their years as a duo, their 21-song set list included material from their solo careers, and covers. Amongst them were "The Sound of Silence", "Mrs. Robinson", "The Boxer" and Simon's "Late in the Evening", with the show concluding with a reprise of the latter. Ongoing personal tensions between the duo led them to decide against a permanent reunion, despite the success of the concert and a subsequent world tour.
The album and film were released the year after the concert. Simon and Garfunkel's performance was praised by music critics and the album was commercially successful, peaking No. 6 on the Billboard 200 album charts and being certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The video recordings were initially broadcast on HBO and were subsequently made available on Laserdisc, CED, VHS and DVD. A single was released of Simon and Garfunkel‘s live performance of The Everly Brothers‘s song "Wake Up Little Susie". It reached No. 27 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1982 and is the duo's last Top 40 hit.
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Postado por Fernando Martins às 04:20 0 bocas
Marcadores: American Tune, Art Garfunkel, Central Park, folk pop, folk rock, Nova Iorque, Paul Simon, Rock, Simon and Garfunkel, The Concert in Central Park, world music
quinta-feira, outubro 13, 2022
Paul Simon faz hoje oitenta e um anos
Postado por Fernando Martins às 08:10 0 bocas
Marcadores: Bridge Over Troubled Water, folk pop, folk rock, música, Paul Simon, Rock, Simon and Garfunkel, world music
Música adequada à data...
Postado por Pedro Luna às 00:08 0 bocas
Marcadores: folk pop, folk rock, música, Paul Simon, Rock, Simon and Garfunkel, The Sound of Silence, world music
quarta-feira, outubro 13, 2021
Música adequada à data...!
Postado por Pedro Luna às 08:00 0 bocas
Marcadores: folk pop, folk rock, música, Paul Simon, Rock, Simon and Garfunkel, world music, You Can Call Me Al
Paul Simon - oitenta anos...!
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:08 0 bocas
Marcadores: folk pop, folk rock, música, Paul Simon, Rock, Simon and Garfunkel, The Sound of Silence, world music
terça-feira, outubro 13, 2020
Paul Simon - 79 anos
Postado por Fernando Martins às 07:09 0 bocas
Marcadores: folk pop, folk rock, música, Paul Simon, Rock, Simon and Garfunkel, world music
domingo, outubro 13, 2019
Paul Simon - 78 anos
Postado por Fernando Martins às 07:08 0 bocas
Marcadores: 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover, folk pop, folk rock, música, Paul Simon, Rock, Simon and Garfunkel, world music, You Can Call Me Al
terça-feira, novembro 25, 2014
Joe DiMaggio nasceu há um século...
Postado por Fernando Martins às 10:00 0 bocas
Marcadores: beisebol, desporto, Joe DiMaggio, Marilyn Monroe, Mrs. Robinson, música, New York Yankees, Paul Simon
domingo, outubro 13, 2013
Paul Simon - 72 anos
Postado por Fernando Martins às 19:20 0 bocas
Marcadores: folk pop, folk rock, música, Paul Simon, Rock, Slip Slidin' Away, world music
domingo, março 03, 2013
O extraordinário e desconhecido cantor Jackson C. Frank morreu há 14 anos
When Jackson Frank was 11, a furnace exploded at his school, sending a ball of flames down corridors until it ended up in Frank's music classroom in the Cleveland Hill Elementary School in Cheektowaga, New York. The fire killed fifteen of his fellow students and burned Frank over more than half his body. It was during his time in the hospital that he was first introduced to playing music, when a teacher, Charlie Castelli, brought in an acoustic guitar to keep Frank occupied during his recovery. When he was 21, he was awarded an insurance cheque of $110,500 for his injuries, giving him enough to "catch a boat to England."
Music career
"He [Frank] proceeded to fall apart before our very eyes. His style that everyone loved was melancholy, very tuneful things. He started doing things that were completely impenetrable. They were basically about psychological angst, played at full volume with lots of thrashing. I don't remember a single word of them, it just did not work. There was one review that said he belonged on a psychologist's couch. Then shortly after that, he hightailed it back to Woodstock again, because he wasn't getting any work."
Woodstock 1970s
In 1984, Frank took a trip to New York City in a desperate bid to locate Paul Simon, but he ended up sleeping on the sidewalk. His mother, who had been in hospital for open heart surgery, found he had left with no forwarding address when she arrived home. He was living on the street and was frequently admitted and discharged from various institutions. He was treated for paranoid schizophrenia, a diagnosis that was refuted by Frank himself as he had always claimed that he actually had depression caused by the trauma he had experienced as a child. Just as Frank’s prospects seemed to be at their worst, a fan from the area around Woodstock, Jim Abbott, discovered him in the early 1990s. Abbott had been discussing music with Mark Anderson, a teacher at the local college he was attending. The conversation had turned to folk music, which they both enjoyed, when Abbott asked the teacher if he had heard of Frank. He recollected:
"When I went down I hadn’t seen a picture of him, except for his album cover. Then, he was thin and young. When I went to see him, there was this heavy guy hobbling down the street, and I thought, ‘That can’t possibly be him’...I just stopped and said ‘Jackson?’ and it was him. My impression was, ‘Oh my God’, it was almost like the elephant man or something. He was so unkempt, dishevelled.” a further side effect of the fire was a thyroid malfunction causing him to put on weight. “He had nothing. It was really sad. We went and had lunch and went back to his room. It almost made me cry, because here was a fifty-year-old man, and all he had to his name was a beat-up old suitcase and a broken pair of glasses. I guess his caseworker had given him a $10 guitar, but it wouldn’t stay in tune. It was one of those hot summer days. He tried to play Blues Run The Game for me, but his voice was pretty much shot."
- "Blues Run the Game"
- "Don't Look Back"
- "Kimbie"
- "Yellow Walls"
- "Here Come the Blues"
- "Milk and Honey"
- "My Name Is Carnival"
- "I Want to Be Alone"
- "Just Like Anything"
- "You Never Wanted Me"
- Bonus tracks (Castle Music, 2001)
- "Marlene"
- "Marcy's Song"
- "The Visit"
- "Prima Donna of Swans"
- "Relations"
Postado por Fernando Martins às 14:00 0 bocas
Marcadores: folk, Jackson C. Frank, música, My Name Is Carnival, Paul Simon, USA
sábado, outubro 13, 2012
Paul Simon - 71 anos
Scarborough Fair - Scarborough Fair
Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
Remember me to one who lives there
She once was a true love of mine
Tell her to make me a cambric shirt
(On the side of a hill in the deep forest green)
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
(Tracing a sparrow on snow-crested ground)
Without no seams nor needlework
(Blankets and bedclothes the child of the mountain)
Then she'll be a true love of mine
(Sleeps unaware of the clarion call)
Tell her to find me an acre of land
(On the side of a hill, a sprinkling of leaves)
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
(Washes the ground with so many tears)
Between the salt water and the sea strand
(A soldier cleans and polishes a gun)
Then she'll be a true love of mine
Tell her to reap it in a sickle of leather
(War bellows, blazing in scarlet battalions)
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
(Generals order their soldiers to kill)
And to gather it all in a bunch of heather
(And to fight for a cause they've long ago forgotten)
Then she'll be a true love of mine
Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
Remember me to one who lives there
She once was a true love of mine
Postado por Fernando Martins às 23:14 0 bocas
Marcadores: folk pop, folk rock, guitarra, Paul Simon, Rock, Scarborough Fair, Simon and Garfunkel, world music
sábado, novembro 05, 2011
Hoje é dia de recordar o grupo Simon and Garfunkel e um concerto memorável
Postado por Adelaide Martins às 09:30 0 bocas
Marcadores: 19 de setembro de 1981, America, Art Garfunkel, Central Park, música, Nova Iorque, Paul Simon, Simon and Garfunkel
Art Garfunkel - 70 anos!
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:07 0 bocas
Marcadores: anos 60, anos 70, anos 80, Art Garfunkel, Bright Eyes, judeus, música, Nova Iorque, Paul Simon, Simon and Garfunkel
quinta-feira, outubro 13, 2011
The Sound of Silence
Hello darkness, my old friend,
I've come to talk with you again,
Because a vision softly creeping,
Left its seeds while I was sleeping,
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence.
In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone,
'Neath the halo of a street lamp,
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence.
And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more.
People talking without speaking,
People hearing without listening,
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence.
"Fools" said I, "You do not know"
Silence like a cancer grows.
Hear my words that I might teach you,
Take my arms that I might reach you."
But my words like silent raindrops fell,
And echoed
In the wells of silence
And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made.
And the sign flashed out its warning,
In the words that it was forming.
And the sign said, "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls."
And whisper'd in the sounds of silence.
Postado por Geopedrados às 14:43 0 bocas
Marcadores: 2009, música, Paul Simon, Simon and Garfunkel, The Sound of Silence
Hoje é dia de ouvir Simon (e Garfunkel)...
El Condor Pasa - Simon & Garfunkel
I'd rather be a sparrow than a snail.
Yes I would,
If I could,
I surely would.
I'd rather be a hammer than a nail.
Yes I would,
If I only could,
I surely would.
Away, I'd rather sail away
Like a swan that's here and gone
A man gets tied up to the ground
He gives the world
Its saddest sound,
Its saddest sound.
I'd rather be a forest than a street.
Yes I would.
If I could,
I surely woud.
I'd rather feel the earth beneath my feet,
Yes I would.
If I only could,
I surely would.
Postado por Fernando Martins às 11:49 0 bocas
Marcadores: El Condor Pasa, música, Paul Simon, Simon and Garfunkel