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BOSSA NOVA. HISTORY AND STORIES

“BOSSA NOVA. HISTORY AND STORIES” RUY CASTRO. Tom Jobim spent much of 1965 and 1966 in the United States, this time in California, appearing on television, giving performances and writing arrangements. To appease his nostalgia for the land, passing Brazilian…

HALLELUJAH I LOVE HER SO

HALLELUJAH I LOVE HER SO By Antonio Baile There are songs performed by Frank Sinatra that, like the first time in everything that is satisfactory, start nodding, arm movements, smiles and even, when alone, dancing down the hallway. “Hallelujah, I…

GENTLE ON MY MIND

GENTLE ON MY MIND By Antonio Baile It may turn out to be a paranoia typical of unconditional Sinatra sufferers but it is not unreasonable, technically speaking, to say that our idolized Frank is sublime in any of the styles…

YOU’LL NEVER WALK ALONE

SONGS FOR HOPE INSPIRING TOPICS DEDICATED TO THE VICTIMS OF DANA IN SPAIN YOU’LL NEVER WALK ALONE By Mahnuel Muñoz The song was written in 1945 by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II for the musical “Carousel“, released in March…

ELVIS & SINATRA (Episode 4)

ELVIS & SINATRA THE SURPRISING RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TWO MUSIC ICONS By Mahnuel Muñoz EPISODE 4 In 1979 Frank was immersed in the recording of “Trilogy“, a triple album with standards from the Great American Songbook, contemporary pop songs and an…

ELVIS & SINATRA (Episode 3)

ELVIS & SINATRA THE SURPRISING RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TWO MUSIC ICONS By Mahnuel Muñoz EPISODE 3 TIMES THEY ARE-A CHANGING At the beginning of the 1960s Elvis and Frank shone like two suns, although the sociocultural changes that were taking place…