lunes, 12 de febrero de 2024

Love Me Do. The Beatles

 

Written by: Lennon-McCartney
Recorded: 6 June411 September 1962
Producers: Ron Richards, George Martin
Engineer: Norman Smith

Released: 5 October 1962 (UK), 10 January 1964 (US)

Paul wrote the main structure of this when he was 16, or even earlier. I think I had something to do with the middle.

Love Me Do.  The Beatles

Love, love me do
You know I love you
I'll always be true

So please
Love me do
Whoa, love me do

Love, love me do
You know I love you
I'll always be true

So please
Love me do
Whoa, love me do

Someone to love, somebody new
Someone to love, someone like you

Love, love me do
You know I love you
I'll always be true

So please
Love me do
Whoa, love me do

Love, love me do
You know I love you
I'll always be true

So please
Love me do
Whoa, love me do

Yeah, love me do
Whoa-oh, love me do


"Love Me Do" is the debut single by the English rock band the Beatles, backed by "P.S. I Love You". When the single was originally released in the United Kingdom on 5 October 1962, it peaked at number 17. It was released in the United States in 1964 and topped the nation's song chart. Re-released in 1982 as part of EMI's Beatles 20th anniversary, it re-entered the UK charts and peaked at number 4.[5] "Love Me Do" also topped the charts in Australia and New Zealand.

The song was written several years before being recorded, and prior to the existence of the Beatles. It features John Lennon's prominent harmonica playing and duet vocals by him and Paul McCartney. Three recorded versions of the song by the Beatles have been released, each with a different drummer. The first attempted recording from June 1962 featured Pete Best on drums, but was not officially released until the Anthology 1 compilation in 1995. A second version was recorded three months later with Best's replacement Ringo Starr, and this was used for the original Parlophone single first pressing. A third version, featuring session drummer Andy White in place of Starr, was used for the second pressing and also included on the band's Please Please Me album and on the 1964 Tollie single in the US. It was also included on the American LPs Introducing... The Beatles and The Early Beatles.


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lunes, 5 de febrero de 2024

In my life. Beattles

According to Lennon, "In My Life" was his "first real major piece of work" because it was the first time he wrote about his own life.

"In My Life" is a song by the Beatles written by John Lennon (credited to Lennon-McCartney). The song originated with Lennon, and while Paul McCartney contributed to the final version, the extent of his contribution is in dispute. Released on the 1965 album Rubber Soul, it is ranked 23rd on Rolling Stone's "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" as well as fifth on their list of the Beatles' 100 Greatest Songs. The song placed second on CBC's 50 Tracks. Mojo magazine named it the best song of all time in 2000.

LYRICS

In My Life

 

There are places I'll remember

All my life, though some have changed.

Some forever, not for better;

Some have gone and some remain.

 

All these places had their moments

With lovers and friends I still can recall.

Some are dead and some are living,

In my life I've loved them all.

 

But of all these friends and lovers

There is no one compares with you.

And these mem'ries lose their meaning

When I think of love as something new.

 

Tho' I know I'll never lose affection

For people and things that went before,

I know I'll often stop and think about them,

In my life I love you more.

 

Tho' I know I'll never lose affection

For people and things that went before,

I know I'll often stop and think about them,

In my life I love you more.

 

In my life I love you more.


VOCABULARY

Remain /rɪˈmeɪn/= permanecer

Recall /rɪˈkɔːl/= recordar

Tho' = Though

  • What Does Tho Mean? The internet slang term “tho” is a contraction or a shorthand version of the English word “though.” It is used to mean “on the contrary” or more simply, “however.”


  • "She's been sick for two weeks. She seems better today tho" .- Tho” is a shortened form of “though.” You are more likely to see it in text messages or in very casual writing by young people. “Though” is used to emphasize a contrast, such as in your sentence above: the contrast is she was sick but she seems better.

Examples

The drinks were expensive, tho' the cocktail selection was good

I really like that boy. I don't know his name, tho.

I want to go to the party, tho I don't think that I can.




LYRICS


COVERS

COVER BY ED SHEERAN



https://www.songfacts.com/facts/the-beatles/in-my-life

This is an autobiographical song about John Lennon's life. He wrote most of the lyrics after being asked why a book he wrote, In His Own Write, revealed more about him than his songs did.

The lyrics about friends refer to Stu Sutcliffe, an early Beatle and great friend of John's who died in 1962, and another friend named Pete Shotton. Lennon also thought of his Aunt Mimi and wife Cynthia, as well as other friends. One of the most beautiful Beatles songs, John called it "A little piece of art work."

The Beatles left a hole for the instrumental break when they recorded this. Producer George Martin filled it in the next morning by playing a piano solo and speeding up the tape to make it sound like a harpsichord. Lennon had asked him to fill it with something "baroque."

Both John Lennon and Paul McCartney cited "In My Life" as one of the best Beatles songs. It was also one of George Harrison's favorites. He performed a rocked-up version on his 1974 US tour, altering the lyrics a bit by singing "I love you all" and "For people and things that came and went before."

There is some debate over how involved McCartney was in writing this song. McCartney claimed he wrote the whole melody, but Lennon took credit for the bulk of the song's composition, telling Playboy in 1980, "Paul helped with the middle eight." In 2018, a Harvard statistician pegged it as a Lennon composition.

This was voted the best song of all time by a panel of songwriters in a 2000 Mojo magazine poll. The panelists included McCartney, Brian Wilson, Lamont Dozier, and Carole King.

In an interview in the January 1971 edition of Rolling Stone, John Lennon recalled the writing of this song: "I wrote that in Kenwood (his home at the time). I used to write upstairs where I had about ten Brunell tape recorders all linked up, I still have them, I'd mastered them over the period of a year or two - I could never make a rock and roll record but I could make some far out stuff on it. I wrote it upstairs, that was one where I wrote the lyrics first and then sang it."

Judy Collins, Ozzy Osbourne and Johnny Cash, Rod Stewart, Bette Midler, Diana Krall and Boyz II Men are among the many artists who have covered this song. 




According to John Lennon: The Life and Legend (The Sunday Times: A Special Tribute 1980), Lennon began writing this in 1964. He forgot about the song for a while and he wrote it again one year later, with lyrics talking about people from his childhood and younger years. In John's original handwritten lyrics he made reference to several places in Liverpool:

 

Penny Lane is one I'm missing

Up Church Rd to the clocktower

In the circle of the abbey

I have seen some happy hours

 

Past the tramsheds with no trams

On the 5 bus into town

Past the Dutch and St. Columbus

To the Dockers Umbrella that they pilled down

 

The Dockers Umbrella was the world's first overhead railway (opened 1893). St. Columbus could refer to a school the bus passes. >>

The music was inspired by The Miracles song "You've Really Got A Hold On Me."

This song was played at Kurt Cobain's funeral. The Beatles were an early and important music influence on him. Cobain even cited Lennon as his "idol" in the various journals he kept throughout his career with Nirvana. >>

In 1998, George Martin produced an album called In My Life with guest vocalists performing various Beatles songs. These vocalists weren't all singers; the cover of "In My Life" features the actor Sean Connery. >>







lunes, 22 de enero de 2024

MOON RIVER. AUDREY HEPBURN TRIBUTE (4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993)

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_Hepburn


Audrey Hepburn (born Audrey Kathleen Ruston; 4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993) was a British[a] actress and humanitarian. Recognised as both a film and fashion icon, she was ranked by the American Film Institute as the third-greatest female screen legend from the Classical Hollywood cinema and was inducted into the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame.

Born in Ixelles, Brussels, to an aristocratic family, Hepburn spent parts of her childhood in Belgium, England, and the Netherlands. She studied ballet with Sonia Gaskell in Amsterdam beginning in 1945, and with Marie Rambert in London from 1948. She began performing as a chorus girl in West End musical theatre productions and then had minor appearances in several films. She rose to stardom in the romantic comedy Roman Holiday (1953) alongside Gregory Peck, for which she was the first actress to win an Oscar, a Golden Globe Award, and a BAFTA Award for a single performance. That year, she also won a Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Play for her performance in Ondine.

She went on to star in a number of successful films such as Sabrina (1954), in which Humphrey Bogart and William Holden compete for her affection; Funny Face (1957), a musical where she sang her own parts; the drama The Nun's Story (1959); the romantic comedy Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961); the thriller-romance Charade (1963), opposite Cary Grant; and the musical My Fair Lady (1964). In 1967 she starred in the thriller Wait Until Dark, receiving Academy Award, Golden Globe, and BAFTA nominations. After that, she only occasionally appeared in films, one being Robin and Marian (1976) with Sean Connery. Her last recorded performances were in the 1990 documentary television series Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement – Informational Programming.

Hepburn won three BAFTA Awards for Best British Actress in a Leading Role. In recognition of her film career, she received BAFTA's Lifetime Achievement Award, the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award, and the Special Tony Award. She remains one of only seventeen people who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards. Later in life, Hepburn devoted much of her time to UNICEF, to which she had contributed since 1954. Between 1988 and 1992, she worked in some of the poorest communities of Africa, South America, and Asia. In December 1992, she received the US Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of her work as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. A month later, she died of appendiceal cancer at her home in Tolochenaz, Vaud, Switzerland, at the age of 63.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakfast_at_Tiffany%27s_(film)

Breakfast at Tiffany's is a 1961 American romantic comedy film directed by Blake Edwards, written by George Axelrod, adapted from Truman Capote's 1958 novella of the same name, and starring Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly, a naïve, eccentric café society girl who falls in love with a struggling writer. It was theatrically released by Paramount Pictures on October 5, 1961, to critical and commercial success.

Nominated for five Academy Awards (winning two), with the music (including "Moon River") nominated for six Grammy Awards (winning five), the film was selected in 2012 for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant".

LYRICS

"Moon River"  (1961 oscar mejor canción)

Moon river, wider than a mile
I'm crossing you in style some day
Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker
Wherever you're going, I'm going your way

Two drifters, off to see the world
There's such a lot of world to see
We're after the same rainbow's end, waiting, round the bend
My Huckleberry Friend, Moon River, and me

Moon river, wider than a mile
I'm crossing you in style some day
Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker
Wherever you're going, I'm going your way

Two drifters, off to see the world
There's such a lot of world to see
We're after that same rainbow's end, waiting, round the bend
My Huckleberry Friend, Moon River, and me

 

VOCABULARY

drifter  /ˈdrɪftə/  vagabundo/a

bend  /bɛnd/ curva

Wherever  /wɛərˈɛvə/  en cualquier sitio


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lunes, 15 de enero de 2024

FLY ME TO THE MOON

 




"FLY ME TO THE MOON", originally titled "In Other Words", is a song written in 1954 by Bart Howard. Kaye Ballard made the first recording of the song the year it was written. Frank Sinatra's 1964 version was closely associated with the Apollo missions to the Moon.

Kaye Ballard made the song's first commercial recording, released by Decca in April 1954



Over the next few years, jazz and cabaret singers released cover versions of "In Other Words" on EP or LP record albums, including Chris Connor, Johnny Mathis, Portia Nelson, and Nancy Wilson. Eydie Gormé sang the song on her 1958 album Eydie In Love.

In 1960, Peggy Lee released the song on the album Pretty Eyes, then made it more popular when she performed it in front of a large television audience on The Ed Sullivan Show. As the song's popularity increased, it became better known as "Fly Me to the Moon", and in 1963 Peggy Lee convinced Bart Howard to make the name change official. Connie Francis released two non-English versions of the song in 1963: in Italian as "Portami Con Te" and in Spanish as "Llévame a la Luna".

In 1962, Joe Harnell arranged and recorded an instrumental version in a bossa nova style. It was released as a single in late 1962. Harnell's version spent 13 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, reaching No. 14 on February 23, 1963

Frank Sinatra included the song on his 1964 album It Might as Well Be Swing, accompanied by Count Basie.

By 1995, the song had been recorded more than 300 times. The Japanese animated series Neon Genesis Evangelion uses several versions of the song sung by Claire Littley, Yoko Takahashi, and various female cast members of the series for the closing music of each episode

Frank Sinatra's 1964 recording of "Fly Me to the Moon" became closely associated with NASA's Apollo space program. A copy of the song was played on a Sony TC-50 portable cassette player on the Apollo 10 mission which orbited the Moon, and also on Apollo 11 before the first landing on the Moon


Puedes completar la letra de la canción.

"________   _____   _____   ________   _________________"                         

________ me to the _____________
Let me _________ among the ___________
Let me __________ what _____________ is like
On (a), Jupiter and Mars

In other ___________, hold my ____________
In other ___________, baby, __________ me


_________ my ___________ with ____________
And let me ____________ for ever more
You _________ all I long for
All I worship and adore
In other ____________, ___________ be true
In other ____________, I _________   ________

Fill ________ heart _________ song
Let me _________ for _________ more
You _________ all I long for
_______ I worship and ____________
In _________   ____________, please be _________
In _________   ____________, in other words
I __________
  ___________


Aquí tienes la letra

"FLY ME TO THE MOON"  Frank Sinatra

Fly me to the moon
Let me play among the stars
Let me see what spring is like
On (a), Jupiter and Mars

In other words, hold my hand
In other words, baby, kiss me


Fill my heart with song
And let me sing for ever more
You are all I long for
All I worship and adore
In other words, please be true
In other words, I love you

Fill my heart with song
Let me sing for ever more
You are all I long for
All I worship and adore
In other words, please be true
In other words, in other words
I love you

Ahora tú puedes cantar con el siguiente video


Como siempre, a continuación tenéis las direcciones de algunos vídeos.

In OtherWords (original) - Kaye Ballard 1954.wmv

https://youtu.be/mcwlGjDNkkw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcwlGjDNkkw


Fly Me ToThe Moon. Bertin Osborne

https://youtu.be/cWX8vMR8hyM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWX8vMR8hyM&list=RDcWX8vMR8hyM&start_radio=1

 

Fly me tothe Moon. Rafael Cortés

https://youtu.be/oMrfH8sFu_0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMrfH8sFu_0

 

Julie London - Fly Me ToThe Moon - BestofSmooth Jazz

https://youtu.be/MeLVCeErypY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeLVCeErypY

 

Fly Me tothe Moon (In OtherWords). Doris Day

https://youtu.be/ktZaDdQ85q8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktZaDdQ85q8


lunes, 8 de enero de 2024

Say A Little Prayer. Aretha Franklin


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Say_a_Little_Prayer
"I Say a Little Prayer" is a song written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David for Dionne Warwick.

Dionne Warwick original

Dionne Warwick, 1966

Intended by lyricist Hal David to convey a woman's concern for her man who's serving in the Vietnam War,  "I Say a Little Prayer" was recorded by Dionne Warwick in a 9 April 1966 session. Although Bacharach's recordings with Warwick typically took no more than three takes (often only taking one), Bacharach did ten takes on "I Say a Little Prayer" and still disliked the completed track, feeling it was rushed.




Aretha Franklin version

"I Say a Little Prayer" also returned to the Pop & R&B Top Ten in the fall of 1968 via a recording by Aretha Franklin taken from her 1968 album Aretha Now. Franklin and background vocalists The Sweet Inspirations were singing the song for fun while rehearsing the songs intended for the album when the viability of their recording "I Say a Little Prayer" became apparent,[3] significantly reinvented from the format of the Dionne Warwick original via the prominence of Clayton Ivey's piano work. Similar to the history of Warwick's double-sided hit, the Aretha Franklin version was intended for the B-side of the July 1968 single release "The House That Jack Built" but began to accrue its own airplay that August.

Versión lyrics




La siguiente información se ha obtenido de la página:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Best_Friend%27s_Wedding

My Best Friend's Wedding is a 1997 American romantic comedy film directed by P. J. Hogan. The film stars Julia RobertsDermot MulroneyCameron Diaz, and Rupert Everett.

The film received generally positive reviews from critics. The soundtrack song "I Say a Little Prayer" was covered by singer Diana King and featured heavily in the film, making it a U.S. Billboard Hot 100 hit. It has since been cited as one of the best romantic comedy films of the 1990s and of all time.

Plot

Three weeks before her 28th birthday, New York City food critic Julianne "Jules" Potter receives a call from her lifelong friend Michael O'Neal, a Chicago sportswriter. Years earlier, the two agreed that if they were both unmarried by age 28, they would marry each other. Michael tells her that in four days, he will marry the beautiful Kimmy Wallace, a college student eight years his junior whose father owns the Chicago White Sox. Realizing that she was in love with him, Jules resolves to sabotage his wedding. Arriving in Chicago, she reunites with Michael and meets Kimmy, who asks her to be the maid of honor. Jules schemes to break up the couple, but her attempt to humiliate Kimmy at a karaoke bar backfires. She manipulates Kimmy into asking her father to offer Michael a job, which Jules knows will anger Michael, but this fails as well.

Frustrated, Jules begs her friend George Downes for help, and he flies to Chicago. On George's advice, Jules prepares to tell Michael how much she loves him, but instead tells him that she is engaged to George, hoping to make Michael jealous. George, who is gay, plays along but embarrasses Jules at lunch with the wedding party, singing "I Say a Little Prayer" as the whole restaurant joins in. George flies home, and Jules tells Michael that her "relationship" with George is over. Michael admits to feeling jealous and gives her the chance to confess her own feelings, but she lets the moment pass. They share a dance as Michael sings their song, "The Way You Look Tonight".

(...)