ÂNGELA MARIA

Ângela (1971)

Ângela

01. Meu Tolo Coração (Evaldo Gouveia/Jair Amorim) • 4:01
02. Velha Amiga (Toquinho/Vinícius de Moraes) • 3:19
03. É Sempre Assim (Adelino Moreira) • 2:39
04. Esse Amigo Pelé (Ted Moreno/Maria Cleide) • 3:03
05. Eu Não Te Esqueci (And I Love You So) (Don McLean/Vers.: Fred Jorge) • 3:43
06. Usei Você (Sílvio César) • 2:48
07. Em Cada Verso, Em Cada Samba (Evaldo Gouveia/Jair Amorim) • 2:53
08. Valsinha (Vinícius de Moraes/Chico Buarque de Hollanda) • 3:35
09. O Preço Do Amor (Nelson Ned) • 2`:21
10. Violão De Pobre (Lina Pesce/Lydia Pesce) • 2:49
11. Feitio De Oração (Vadico/Noel Rosa) • 3:45
12. Lundú Do Terreiro De Fogo (Aníbal Beça) • 3:12

14 MAIORAIS Nº 14

14 Maiorais Nº 14 (1970)

 

14 Maiorais Nº 14

 

01. Everybody's Talkin' - Malcolm Dodds

    (Fred Neil) • 2:39

02. Gente Humilde - Ângela Maria

    (Garoto/Vinícius de Moraes/Chico Buarque De Hollanda) • 2:45

03. Não Me Deixe Nunca Mais - Wanderley Cardoso

    (Rossini Pinto/Solange Corrêa) • 3:06

04. Vai Ser Assim - Martinha

    (Martinha) • 3:28

05. Eu Também Sou Sentimental - Nelson Ned

    (Nelson Ned) • 3:38

06. O Que Passou, Passou - Djalma Lúcio

    (Nelson Ned) • 2:58

07. Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head - Moacyr Silva

    (Burt Bacharach/Hal David) • 2:37

08. Foi Um Rio Que Passou Em Minha Vida - Elizeth Cardoso

    (Paulinho da Viola) • 2:36

09. Eu Amo Tanto, Tanto (Ti Voglio Tanto Bene) - Moacyr Franco

    (Ernesto DeCurtis/Domenico Furnò/Vers.: Fred Jorge) • 3:13

10. A Chuva Terminou (La Lluvia Terminó) - Jordans

    (Eduardo Franco/Chucho Valdez/Vers.: Sebastião Ferreira da Silva) • 2:35

11. Menina De Trança - Cláudio Fontana

    (Antonio Marcos) • 3:45

12. Nem Às Paredes Confesso - Tristão da Silva

    (Ferrer Trindade/Arthur Ribeiro) • 2:56

13. Todos Os Caminhos (Comme D'Habitude) - Agnaldo Rayol

    (J. Reveaux/Thibault/C. François/Vers.: Kalil Filho) • 4:34

14. Quando O Amor Se Transforma Em Poesia (Quando L'Amore Diventa Poesia) - Wanderley Cardoso

    (Piero Soffici/Antonio Mogol/Vers.: Miguel Plopschi) • 2:38

MÚSICA DIVINA

Música Divina (1965)

Música Divina

Something must be said about this record: In 2005 a friend of mine, after a heavy rain that caused some trouble around here, decided to throw away the record collection that once belonged to his father and was just occupying some precious space in his house.  As a good friend, I prompted myself to help him on this difficult task.  There were some 300 records, most of them coverless, and the few who had some protection were deeply damaged by the rain.  Well, as I have promissed him, I picked up his "garbage" and took it to my "dump site".  Once at home, I began sorting that, and found some (expected) treasures among them, like James Brown and the Famous Flames (1967); Ella Fitzgerald's Clap Hands Here Comes Charlie!; Caterina Valente's A Toast To The Girls, and several of the first albums by Trio Irakitan, Claudete Soares, Agostinho dos Santos and others.  I separated those for the due care they needed and put the others on a corner shelf for future inspection.

Two days ago, while I was wating on a download, I picked a bunch of those records and started looking at them more carefully, and what I found was this Música Divina.  What caught my attention was the names of Ângela Maria and Agnaldo Rayol on the label.  There were also the organist Ronnie Will and the pianist Chaim Lewak, from Os Cobras.  A quick search on the Internet showed me that this is quite a rare album.  I only found two thumbnails of the cover and tried my best to make them presentable for printing on a CD sleeve.  Unfortunately, no matter how much I've tried, I couldn't read the information on the back cover.

So please, forgive me the low quality of the cover image, and also some noise I couldn't erase from the music, but this is a real piece for collectors, and shouldn't be stuck on a corner shelf of somebody's "dump site".

01. Ave-Maria - Agnaldo Rayol

    (Charles Gounod) • 2:54

02. Meditation (De Thais) - Ronnie Will

    (Massenet) • 3:49

03. Ave-Maria - Angela Maria & Canarinhos de Petrópolis

    (Bonaventura Somma) • 3:40

04. Tristesse - Chaim Lewak

    (Frédéric Chopin) • 2:23

05. Panis Agelicus - Angela Maria & Canarinhos de Petrópolis

    (César Frank) • 3:47

06. Jesus, Alegria Dos Homens - Ronnie Will

    (Johann Sebastian Bach) • 3:08

07. Ave-Maria - Agnaldo Rayol

    (Franz Schubert) • 4:34

08. Poema - Chaim Lewak

    (Zdenko Fibich) • 2:46

09. Ave-Maria - Angela Maria & Canarinhos de Petrópolis

    (Dunshee de Abranches) • 2:06

10. Tocata E Finale - Ronnie Will

    (Johann Sebastian Bach) • 2:50

ANGELA MARIA

Com Amor E Carinho (1978)

Com Amor E Carinho

01. Prisioneira (Cláudio Fontana) • 3:00
02. Tango Nostalgia (Adilson Adriano) • 2:12
03. Amélia De Você (Elena de Grammont/Eliane de Grammont) • 4:20
04. Orgulho (Nelson Werderkind/Waldir Rocha) • 3:00
05. Choro Especial (Jair Amorim/Evaldo Gouveia) • 3:16
06. Amante Bandido (Fernando Mendes/Miguel) • 3:55
07. Adeus Querido (Eduardo Patané/Floriano Faissal) • 3:00
08. A Partida (Jair Amorim/Evaldo Gouveia) • 3:55
09. Mamãe - Angela Maria e Agnaldo Timóteo
    (Herivelto Martins/David Nasser) • 3:38
10. Babalu (Marguerita Lecuona) • 4:23
11. Se Alguém Disser Adeus (Jair Amorim/Evaldo Gouveia) • 3:30
12. Teu Retrato (Maurício Duboc/Carlos Colla) • 4:22
13. Deus (Ademir Bezerra/Costa) • 3:45

14 MAIORAIS Nº 8

14 Maiorais Nº 8 (1965) or Alternative

14 Maiorais Nº 8

01. A Praia (La Playa) - Agnaldo Rayol
    (Jovem Wetter/Vers.: Bruno Silva) • 4:04
02. Falhaste Coração (Fallaste Corazón) - Angela Maria & Guaranis
    (Cuco Sanchez/Vers.: Luiz Carlos Gouvêa) • 3:05
03. Preciso Aprender A Ser Só - Jorge Nery
    (Marcos Valle/Paulo Sérgio Valle) • 4:11
04. Letkiss Jenka - Jordans
    (R. Lehtinen) • 3:07
05. Música Das Montanhas (The Sound Of Music) - Moacyr Franco
    (Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein II/Vers.: Nazareno de Brito) • 4:17
06. Canção de Amor - Elizeth Cardoso
    (Chocolate/Elano de Paula) • 3:46
07. Pau De Arara - Moura Júnior
    (Carlos Lyra/Vinícius de Moraes) • 4:00
08. Rosa De Ouro - Elizeth Cardoso
    (Hermínio Bello de Carvalho/Elton Medeiros/Paulinho da Viola) • 2:42
09. Amor Criança - Wanderley Cardoso
    (Genival Mello/Dora Lopes) • 3:32
10. Nossa Canção De Amor (Summer Love) - Silvana
    (Victor Young/Milton Berle/Bernard Arnold/Vers.: Salatiel Coelho) • 3:30
11. Ana Lúcia - Rinaldo Calheiros
    (João Roberto Kelly/Augusto Mello Pinto) • 3:36
12. Flamengo - Clevers
    (Brincos) • 2:39
13. O Princípio E O Fim (Ma Vie) - Agnaldo Rayol
    (Alain Barrière/Vers.: Nazareno de Brito) • 4:07
14. Pequenina... Mas Resolve - Angela Maria
    (Adelino Moreira) • 2:53

ANGELA MARIA

Presença De Angela Maria (1961)

Presença De Angela Maria

01. Prelúdio Para Ninar Gente Grande (Luiz Vieira) • 3:27
02. Lembranças (Benil Santos/Raul Sampaio) • 3:04
03. O Menino E O Alçapão (Armando Cavalcante/Victor Freire) • 1:42
04. Brigas De Amor (Adelino Moreira) • 2:20
05. Castigo Ruim (Coelho Neto) • 3:21
06. Sempre O Luar (Klécius Caldas/Armando Cavalcante) • 2:10
07. Esta Noite Ou Nunca (Adelino Moreira) • 2:29
08. Samba Em Prelúdio (Baden Powell/Vinícius de Moraes) • 3:25
09. Confidência (Raul Sampaio/Benil Santos) • 2:37
10. Distande De Deus (Fernando César/Jorge Iara) • 2:51
11. A História De Caim (Jacinto Silva) • 2:29
12. Sabes Mentir (Othon Russo) • 2:47

ANGELA MARIA

Angela Maria (1977)

Abelim Maria da Cunha (13/05/1928), or simply Angela Maria was, during the 1950's,  the most popular singer in Brazil, certified by IBOPE, a renowned institute dedicated to opinion research. Owner of a privileged voice and personal style of interpretation, Angela Maria is regarded by many as the best singer of all time in this country, and successive musical movements such as Bossa Nova, Tropicália, and Jovem Guarda never succeeded in disturbing her career.

The daughter of a Protestant minister, she sang in church choirs since her childhood. She worked as a weaver, as her family was against her artistic wishes. Around 1947, she began to perform in radio, in novice shows like Pescando Estrelas (Rádio Clube do Brasil), Hora do Pato (Rádio Nacional), and in Ary Barroso's show on Rádio Tupi. Always using the pseudonym Ângela Maria (which occulted her performances from her strict family), she performed as an amateur in the famous Trem da Alegria (by Lamartine Babo, Iara Sales, and Héber Bôscoli) on Rádio Nacional. The listeners' good reception encouraged her to abandon her family and to try the career of singer. In 1948, she became the crooner of the Dancing Avenida, one of the most important gafieiras of Rio. Soon, she was hired by Rádio Mayrink Veiga. Her first recording came in 1951, with "Sou Feliz" (Augusto Mesquita/Ciro Monteiro) and "Quando Alguém Vai Embora" (Ciro Monteiro/Dias Cruz), for RCA Victor. "Não Tenho Você", by then-unknown composers Paulo Marques and Ari Monteiro, recorded in the next year, was her first hit. During that time, she was a big star at Rádio Nacional and Rádio Mayrink Veiga, where she had her own show, A Princesa Canta (the Princess Sings). One of her fans, President Getúlio Vargas, affectionately called her Sapoti. In 1963, she toured Portugal and Africa, singing for Portuguese soldiers. In 1979, she participated (with João da Baiana) in the documentary Maxixe, a Dança Perdida (Alex Viany). One of her latest successes was a show shared with Cauby Peixoto, Canta Brasil, which was recorded and released by RCA/BMG as Ângela e Cauby ao Vivo.

Like Elis Regina, she is considered one of the purest voices of Brazilian Popular Music

Angela Maria (1977)

Though this album is fairily recent and probably most of you already have it, I haven't found it anywhere on the Internet, so... following the lead of Parallel Realities Studio, another album released on the same year...

01. Canto Paraguaio (Jair Amorim/Evaldo Gouveia) • 3:28

02. Com Muito Amor (Clayton/Antonio Carlos) • 3:13

03. Preciso Me Convencer Que Lhe Perdi (Wanderley Cardoso/J. Oliveira • 3:21

04. Lábios de Mel (Waldir Rocha) • 3:34

05. Romântica (Clayton/Cézar) • 4:46

06. Noite De Amor (Nem/Aldo Taranto) • 3:07

07. Dame Tu Mano, Latino Americano (Paulo Rocco/Santiago) • 3:01

08. Nosso Amor, Nossa Paz (Jair Amorim/Evaldo Gouveia) • 3:32

09. Vá, Mas Volte (Wando) • 3:43

10. Nunca Mais (Isolda/Milton Carlos) • 2:48

11. Um Dia Qualquer (Amore, Grande Amore Libero) (Afermo/Vers.: Fred Jorge) • 2:43

12. Moça Bonita (Jair Amorim/Evaldo Gouveia) • 3:50