Sade - Then & Now

1983                                                    2010

Sade are an English band that formed in 1983. The band's music features elements of R&B, soul, jazz, and soft rock. The band is named after their British Nigerian lead vocalist, Sade Adu.

Sade's debut album, Diamond Life, went Top Ten in the U.K. in late 1984 and sold platinum. In 1986, Sade won a Grammy for Best New Artist. Sade's US certified sales so far stands at 23.5 million units according to Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and has sold more than 50 million units worldwide to date. They were ranked at #50 on VH1's list of the 100 greatest artists of all time

Her biggest hit to date is the enduring Your Love is King, and her debut album Diamond Life became a soundtrack to many a romantic evening during the 1980s.

Born in Nigeria, she moved to the UK at the age of four, settling in Colchester, Essex.

The singer - whose full name is Helen Folsesade Adu - studied fashion at St Martin's College in London, and went on to design for the likes of Spandau Ballet.

Solo

But music was a strong pull and influenced by such artists as Billie Holiday and Nina Simone, Sade joined a series of bands.

After singing with Arriva and Pride she launched a solo career and signed to Sony Records.

Her first single Your Love is King was released in 1984, showcasing her distinctive singing soft jazz style.

Sade went on to release the singles Smooth Operator from the Diamond Life album and Sweetest Taboo from her second long-player Promise.

Time out

Her success was also seen in the amount of albums she sold, including big sellers in the US.

But she did not relish the pressures of fame and took herself out of the pop arena through much of the 1990s.She return in 2000 with the album "Lovers Rock"

She divided her time between Spain and Jamaica to spend quality time with her daughter Ila.

Now 51, Sade made a comeback in 2010 with the album Soldier Of Love, which was hailed a success in both the UK and the US.

Then And Now - Just a gigolo

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    "Just a Gigolo" is best known in a form recorded by Louis Prima in 1956, where it was paired in a medley with another old standard, "I Ain't Got Nobody" (words by Roger Graham and music by Spencer Williams, 1915). Although these two songs have nothing else in common, the popularity of Prima's combination, and of David Lee Roth's 1985 cover version of the medley, has led to the mistaken perception by some that the songs are two parts of a single original composition.[citation needed] The coupling of the two songs had its genesis in an earlier Louis Prima recording from 1945, which was then adapted by Sam Butera for Prima's 1950s Las Vegas stage show, during which Prima would revisit his old hits in a new, jive-and-jumping style. The success of that act gained Prima a recording deal with Capitol Records, which aimed to capture on record the atmosphere of his shows. The first album, titled The Wildest! and released in January 1957, opened with "Just a Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody", which then became Prima's signature number and helped relaunch his career.


 "Just a Gigolo" Lyrics

I'm just a gigolo and everywhere I go
People know the part I'm playing
Paid for every dance selling each romance
Ooh, what they're saying

(chorus)
There would come a day when youth will pass away
What will they say about me
When the end comes I know
They say "He was just a gigolo"
Life goes on without me

I'm just a gigolo and everywhere I go
People know the part I'm playing
Paid for every dance selling each romance
Ooh, what they're saying

(chorus)

Cuz I ain't got nobody
Nobody cares for me, nobody, nobody cares for me
I'm so sad and lonely
Sad and lonely, sad and lonely
Won't some sweet mama come and take a chance with me
Cuz I ain't so bad
Sad and lonesome all the time
Even on the beat, on the, on the beat
I ain't got nobody
Nobody cares for me, nobody, nobody

Really ain't got nobody, sad and lonesome
Baby need love

I, I, I, ain't got nobody
Nobody, nobody cares for me ,nobody, nobody
I'm so sad and lonely, sad and lonely
Won't some sweet mama come and take a chance with me
Cuz I ain't so bad
Really want that soul, little loving soul all the time
Even on the beat, cherry, cherry on the beat
Need a long tall darling, mama
Feeling sick
Got nobody, no, nobody, nobody
Nobody, nobody, no one, no one

Loopey loop, darling, darling
Getting serious, got to see the walls
Over there. nobody, got no one, nobody
Nobody, nobody, nobody
Nobody, nobody cares for me</di
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Then And Now : Bettye Lavette

Bettye LaVette has been sharing her soulful voice with the world since 1962, when she cut her first record at the age of 16. The Michigan-born singer never quite reached superstar levels of fame, but throughout her extraordinary career she has toured with legends like Otis Redding, James Brown and Cab Calloway. Her latest single is 'Talking Old Soldiers,' a heart wrenching piano ballad originally performed by Elton John. In the video, LaVette reminisces about friends who have passed away as cigarette smoke slowly plumes around her in an empty bar. 

Well hello he said
"Can I buy you another glass of wine, my dear?"
"Thank you son, that's kind of you
It's so nice to know somebody cares"

These days there's so much goin' on
I don't think nobody really wants to know
I may reach just an ol' has been a some
But I now how it feels to grow old

Yeah, I guess that's right
You can find me here most in a night
Just lookin' 'round the rooms
Starin' at the walls and the lights

It's funny I remember, oh, five or six years ago I'd say
I'd stand right here at this bar with my friends who passed away
And drink three times the wine I can drink today
Yup, I know how it feels to grow old

I know what they're sayin' son
There goes an old frenzy broad again
Well, I may be mad at that but I've seen enough
To make a young man go out his brains

How the hell do they know
What it's like to have a graveyard as a friend?
'Cause that's where they all are boy, all of them
It don't seem likely I'll have those kinds of friends again

I showed you hate, you have to go
But it's been great talkin' to you
And how about see you
The next time you're passin' through

You know it, it's like I sayin'
There's so much goin' on
I don't really think nobody wants to know
But you keep well my friend

And don't give another thought on me
'Cause I'm gonna ignore all the rest
I've got my memories


Well, hello he said
"Can I buy you another glass of wine, my dear?"
"Thank you son, that's kind of you


written by: ELTON JOHN, BERNIE TAUPIN;
Lyrics Β© Universal Music Publishing Group

 A Tribute To "The Who"


   




Bettye LaVette's stunning take on The Who classic, "Love Reign O'er Me" at the
 2008 Kennedy Center Honors. Music and arrangement by Rob Mathes.

Jon Bon Jovi with Bettye LaVette on 1.18.09 at the Lincoln Memorial









 




Bettye's biggest ever hit was "Let Me Down Easy", a record on the Calla label that the late Dave Godin revered as if it were a religious experience. We were fortunate enough in Detroit in 1990 to not only re-record it, but to shoot some wonderful footage of the 
lady singing her heart and soul out .

Τότε και Τώρα....Παραλλαγές στο ίδιο θέμα

Tο συγκεκριμένο τραγούδι γράφτηκε από το Μάνο Χατζιδάκι το 1959 για να παίξει στην ταινία του Ντίμη Δαδήρα "Το νησί των γενναίων" όπου και το ερμηνεύει η Τζένη Καρέζη. Οι στίχοι του τραγουδιού γράφτηκαν από τον Γιάννη Ιωαννίδη.

Λόγο στο λόγο και ξεχαστήκαμε

μας πήρε ο πόνος και νυχτωθήκαμε

κρύψε το δάκρυ με το μαντίλι σου

να πιω τον ήλιο μέσα απ'τα χείλη σου.

Μην τον ρωτάς τον ουρανό

το σύννεφο και το φεγγάρι

το βλέμμα σου το σκοτεινό

κάτι απ' τη νύχτα έχει πάρει.

 Ό,τι μας βρήκε κι ό,τι μας λύπησε

σαν το μαχαίρι κρυφά μας χτύπησε

κρύψε το δάκρυ με το μαντίλι σου

να πιω τον ήλιο μέσα απ'τα χείλη σου.

 Μην τον ρωτάς τον ουρανό

το σύννεφο και το φεγγάρι

το βλέμμα σου τοσκοτεινό 

κάτι απ'τηνύχτα έχει πάρει. 

Hχογραφήθηκε για πρώτη φορά την ίδια χρονιά με την Μαίρη Λω. Το 1962 το ηχογραφεί και η Brenda Lee με αγγλικούς στίχους, με αποτέλεσμα να ανέβει στο top 10 της Βρετανίας και της Αμερικής και να κερδίσει το CMA Award (Country Music Association) ως το καλύτερο τραγούδι της χρονιάς.

Ακολουθούν ερμηνείες και από άλλους καλλιτέχνες.

All alone am I ever since your goodbye
All alone with just a beat of my heart
People all around but I don't hear a sound
Just the lonely beating of my heart

No use in holding other hands
For I'd be holding only emptiness
No use in kissing other lips
For I'd be thinking just of your caress

All alone am I ever since your goodbye
All alone with just a beat of my heart
People all around but I don't hear a sound
Just the lonely beating of my heart

No other voice can say the words
My heart must hear to ever sing again
The words you used to whisper low
No other love can ever bring again.

All alone am I ever since your goodbye
All alone with just a beat of my heart
People all around but I don't hear a sound
Just the lonely beating of my heart

Greek composer Manos Hadjidakis wrote the music to "All Alone Am I" in 1960, and the music only was first used in a film entitled "Island of the Brave". Manos also composed the music for the film "Never On Sunday". Famed record producer Owen Bradley had Arthur Altman write English lyrics to "All Alone Am I",
and it ultimately became a huge hit for Brenda Lee, peaking at #3 in October of '62.

Αλκίνοος Ιωαννίδης  Δήμητρα Γαλάνη