Gente, hoje sou feliz pa’caramba. O sorte que eu tenho, não é molhe não.
Olhe o que achei, um pedaço de ouro que te vai fazer doido. Abaixe rapido.

Look what I found today. On my never ending search for records I went to
a town I don’t visit frequently and got real lucky. The score is so nice I
hardly know where to start. I found some samba albums on the OKeh label,
a branch of CBS, of which the first post. Three albums on the
Romanian ‘Electrecord’ label, some Discos Fuentes from Colombia, some great
LP’s on Syliphone, Eddy’Son, just super and you can share that luck with me.
Tell me what to post next, and most wanted goes first.
There’s also some Choc Stars, Fuji with a female singer called Salawa Abeni,
Docteur Nico, Jonah Moyo and Pamelo Mounk’a. Coupé Cloué or Lisandro Meza.

Now about this album, when I saw Zuzuca between those LP’s I had a shiver
going down my spine. An album like this doesn’t show up every day and I realised
immediately, we’ve got something special here. OKeh stands for topnotch samba
and I didn’t need more then one listen to know I struck gold. This is one of
the best samba LP’s I have ever heard. No less then 14 tracks, one
even better than the other. The pile of OKeh’s counts one other Zuzuca
and 4 samba collectors, plain fantastic !

Vamos a Sambar a noite inteira !

tracks;

1 Sou batuqueiro sim
2 Eu nasci na Roça
3 O trem
4 Meu drama
5 Você pode partir
6 Folia de reis
7 A dança do Cafuné
8 Areia, areia
9 Tristeza de um sambista
10 Foi no carnaval
11 Sofro demais
12 Soturno
13 Bôko môko
14 Pagode do compadre

One of my all time heroes in samba is Bezerra da Silva.
Through the use of a popular samba rhythm called ‘pagode’, Bezerra
da Silva’s ‘Violência gera violência’ ( violence generates violence )
expresses demand for political and social justice. In the voice of public
figures such as a police inspector, a government bureaucrat and a garbage
collector, Bezerra captures and translates the popular mood on a variety
of themes: elections, religion and drugdealers are a few of these.
The song ‘Raiva de tudo’ ( rage of everything ): I see human justice/
selling our conscience/ absolving the rich and blaming the poor’ is a good
example of Bezerra da Silva’s peculiar combination of humor and political
protest. ‘Filho da mãe solteira’ ( son of a single mother ) and ‘Candidato
Caó Caó are other interesting songs on this LP which displays Bezerra’s
always great taste in samba. One of his older albums you’ll find here .
In our samba section, below left, we’ve got plenty related material.

tracks;

1 Candidato caó caó
2 Feitiço da tião
3 Vida de operário
4 O juramento jurou
5 Pobre compositor
6 Transação de malandro
7 Violência gera violência
8 Raiva de tudo
9 Samba manifesto
10 Povo da Colina
11 Bom Jesus de Nazareno
12 Filho de mãe solteira

Goodmorning, today I received a load of nasty mails again,
some people on the web think blogging is some kind of competition.
I just want to say, I will not participate in throwing dirt at
each other. Only positivity on this page please. It is only meant to
serve the world and make people happy.

And now about this little album, it’s small but very nice.
Donga was an important figure in Brazillian music. His songs are
played by many even today. This LP contains the great ‘Pelo
telefone’, a song I first knew by the also great Martinho da Vila.
If you listened to this album and like the music, take a look at
this , another fine Donga LP. Hope you like it.

tracks;

1 Vou te abandonar
2 Acorda, Adalgisa
3 Jocosa
4 Isto é bom
5 Pelo telefone
6 Cabide de molambo
7 O vatapá
8 Chuá-chuá
9 Saudosa
10 É batucada

Good morning Groovers, it’s been quite a while since I’ve posted
some Samba. I received mail from a friend. He wondered
why I post so little samba nowadays, and he’s right,
I don’t. The cause of it lies in the fact it’s very difficult
to find a lot of samba here in the Netherlands. As some of you might
know, I do love a good samba from time to time. Today I have an album
by the famous Originais do Samba. Maybe I can still make up to all
who missed it. It’s a very nice album from 1970 on RCA Victor.
I hope you do not have it yet, this one’s for all
you sambalovers out there.

tracks;

1 Tá chegando fevereiro
2 Vestido branco
3 O segundo cara
4 Canta comigo
5 Rio de Janeiro ( um samba só não dá )
6 Perdão com dignidade
7 É de lei
8 Eu queria era ficar sambando
9 Todo morro acordou
10 O bem e o mal
11 Prá ela
12 Sambista

Many of us know the songs of Noël Rosa, they are still being
played today by lots of Brazilian artists. Mostly we hear the
countless renditions by those artists but seldom by Noël Rosa himself.
When one of our visitors told me he was so happy discovering the
music of Noël Rosa, I decided to put together a compilation with
his songs and all sung by himself. There are two songs on which he
is accompanied by others, there’s one with Marília Baptista and one
with Ismaël Silva. I went through all the material I have available
so no vinyl rips this time. Noël Rosa was one of the most important
composers in Brazilian musical history. Whether it’s samba, bossa
nova or MPB, it would not have been the same without
the work of Noël Rosa. Enjoy this comp.

tracks;

1 São coisas nossas
2 Onde está a honestidade ?
3 Conversa de botequim
4 Você vai se quiser (with Marília Baptista)
5 Gago apaixonado
6 Positivismo
7 João Ninguém
8 Malandro medroso
9 Com que roupa ?
10 Seu Jacinto (with Ismaël Silva)
11 Minha viola
12 Cordiais saudações
13 Por causa da hora
14 Mentiras de mulher
15 Coração
16 Arranjei um fraseado|

Martinho da Vila’s sambas belong to the very best ever.
This LP from 1976 confirms that again. His warm voice,
combined with master musical craftsmanship make this LP
another treasure in samba. RCA contributes superb sound,
What can I say more? I know I’m not the first to post it,
just could not resist to rip it again.

tracks;

1 Claustrofobia
2 João e José
3 Não tenha medo, amigo
4 Invenção de Orfeu
5 História da liberdade no Brasil
6 Coisa louca
7 Chorar não cabe agora
8 Quem me dera
9 Piquenique
10 Choro chorão
11 Ai, que saudade que eu tenho

Some years ago, when I came back from a trip to Brazil,
I made this compilation for some friends. Today one of
them told me he’d lost it somehow. This way it is available
to him and to you as well. These are some of my favourite sambas.
I hope you enjoy them too. ( cover = Cartola )

tracks;

01 – Nelson Cavaquinho – Quando eu me chamar saudade
02 – Bezerra da Silva – Viúva de seis
03 – Cartola – Sim
04 – Zé Keti – O retrato do Rio
05 – Seu Jair do Cavaquinho – Doce na feira
06 – Adoniran Barbosa – O casamento do Moacir
07 – Ismael Silva – Se você jurar/Pra me livrar do mal
08 – Nelson Cavaquinho – O bem e o mal
09 – Nelson Sargento – Triangulo amoroso
10 – Cartola – Aconteceu
11 – Adoniran Barbosa – Agüenta a mão João
12 – Seu Jair do Cavaquinho – Adeus palhaço
13 – Cartola – Alvorada
14 – Nelson Cavaquinho – A flor e o espinho
15 – Zé Keti – A voz do morro
16 – Cartola – O mundo é um moínho
17 – Ismael Silva – Entrada franca
18 – Adoniran Barbosa – No morro do piolho
19 – Nelson Sargento – Cântigo a natureza
20 – Nelson Cavaquinho – Vou partir
21 – Seu Jair do Cavaquinho – Roda de samba
22 – Nelson Sargento – Falso amor sincero
23 – Cartola – Alegria
24 – Bezerra da Silva – Sua cabeça não passa na porta
25 – Adoniran Barbosa – Tiro ao álvaro

P.S. I found out I made a mistake in the tracklist.
Track 9 should be Nelson Sargento instead of
Nelson Cavaquinho, change it at home please !
thank you.

Yesterday evening I met my friend Bebeto in a local bar. He
used to live in Brasil for some 8 years when he was a youngster.
The titelsong of this album has a very special meaning to him,
but he didn’t have it himself. I promised to post it for him today.
For that same reason I decided to add a couple more versions as bonus.
Enjoy this Bebeto ! .. and everyone else too ofcourse.

tracks;

1 Trem das onze
2 Chum-chim-chum
3 Saudosa maloca
4 Iracema
5 Prova de carinho
6 Abrigo de vagabundos
7 Lenço na molera
8 As mariposa
9 Conselho de mulher
10 Samba do Arnesto
11 Barracão pegou fogo
12 A promesa do Jacó

Bonus tracks;

13 Adoniran Barbosa – Trem das onze ( live )
14 Adoniran Barbosa – Trem das onze
15 Trem das onze ( newer version )

Dear visitor, I use to post more often and I would
if only I could find the time, well today I did.

Last year, June the 1st to be precise, I already posted volume 2.
Now here’s number one, a big medley of well known samba tunes
from the early 70’s. For samba lovers, a treat.

tracks;

1a Do jeito que o rei mandou
1b Regra tres
2a Salguiro chorao
2b Nega Tijucana
3a Quando vim de Minas
3b Fala viola
4a Quero sim
4b Tristeza pé no chão
5a Boi da cara preta
5b Porta aberta
5c Teimosa
6a Reza forte
6b Mocoto é meu
7a Serenou
7b Que beleza
8a Hora de chorar
8b Quando eu me chamar saudade
9a Retalhos de cetim
9b Camisa 10
9c Boa noite
10a Anastacio/Samba enredo para um sambista morto
10b Malandro é malandro mesmo

This morning I got a strange surprise. The Blogger Team sent me a mail
I violated other people’s copyright by posting a reggae compilation
on my paralel page. When I went there to remove it ( which I always do )
I found out it was already removed. I didn’t know and still don’t if
this is a usual thing to happen. Have any of you collegue bloggers
ever experienced this before ? Tell me about it.

Neguinho da Beija-Flor comes in with this 1985 samba album.
Assuming it is here to stay, I can tell you it is a nice
and kind of traditional album. With the participation of
a group of experienced musicians like Wilson das Neves’ rhythm
section and many others. Powerfull and smooth samba with
the strong voice of Neguinho da Beija-Flor.

tracks;

1 Ofício de puxador
2 Dinheiro do pis
3 Bem melhor que você
4 Sem batismo e sem Adeus
5 Se liga doutor
6 A Deusa da passarela
7 Bom dia, melhores dias virão
8 Fim de nós
9 O homem do colarinho branco
10 Angela
11 Problema social