KAY WARMER - DANCE TO THE BEATLES (1976)

The German musician Kai Warner was the stage name of Werner Last, born in Bremen, on October 27, 1926 and died on July 9, 1982. He was the brother of conductor James Last and Robert Last (drummer).

Warner took piano lessons from Ernst Weelen and received theoretical instruction from Richard Bulling, a student of Max Reger and Engelbert Humperdinck.

After the war, Werner Last appeared as a trombonist together with his brothers Hans (bassist, later known as James Last) and Robert Last in the music halls of Bremen and in the American clubs in nearby Bremerhaven.

At this time he was discovered by composer and impresario Friedrich Meyer and hired into the newly formed dance orchestra of Radio Bremen. The Last Brothers became known as members of the Last-Becker Ensemble.

Werner Last found his first success as an arranger. After the dissolution of the Bremen dance orchestra in 1948, he played for a while in a 12-piece band, then went to seek his fortune in the USA.

In the US, Warner had to earn a living as a casual worker for several months before being admitted to the New York musicians' union. As a trombonist, he belonged to several renowned big bands. Additionally, he studied music theory at New York University with Schillinger professor Rudolf Schramm.

In 1958, Warner Last returned to Germany and arranged numerous film soundtracks. In 1966 he signed as a producer with Polydor; he discovered and produced Renate Kern.

As Kai Warner, he started his own orchestra, which included many musicians who had played with James Last (such as his brother Robert Last, who had previously played drums on James Last's early sessions).

In 1975, Kai Warner moved from Polydor to Philips. In addition to his LPs such as Pops For Minis, Happy Together, Goldtimer 1 and 2, his name is forever linked to the Go-In series, which later continued at Philips under the name Go-In Party.

Other albums: So In Love, Love Songs, Romantic Songs, Wer recht in Freuden tanzen will, Warner Plays Wagner, Golden Violins, Volkslieder Festival, On The Road To Philadelphia, Swingin' Johann, Salsoul Explosion, A Glass Of Champagne, Dance To The Beatles, Zum Tanz Marsch Marsch, Polka wie noch nie, Oriental Nights, It's Country Time and, of course, the Christmas album Christmas Party.

He also made several recordings with his Kai Warner Singers, a mixed choir made up of six women and six men often accompanied by just a rhythm section, as Ray Conniff often did on his 1970s albums. He died in Hamburg at the age of 55.

Below are the songs that make up the album selection in the post:

01. Can't buy me love:
02. Michelle;
03. Eight days a week;
04. Let it be;
05. Hey Jude;
06. Get back;
07. A hard days night;
08. Yesterday;
09. Lady Madonna;
10. We can work it out;
11. With a little help from my friends;
12. Penny Lane

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KAY WARNER - DANCE TO THE BEATLES

PHILIPS - GERMANY 1976

TEMPO - SHOW BEATLES (1978)

In this post, I present a rare live Beatles tribute album. This is the unknown album "Show Beatles", by the Tempo group, which was released in France, in 1978, by the Baccara International label. Unfortunately, I couldn't find information about this band.

The album selection is made up of 10 Lennon & McCartney classics and 2 Chuck Berry compositions, listed below:

01. Day tripper;
02. Paperback writer;
03. Eight day a week;
04. Rock'N' roll music;
05. Can't buy me love;
06. she's love you;
07. Help;
08. Ticket to ride;
09. A Hard day's nigh;
10. I want to hold your hand;
11. Roll over Beethoven;
12. Run for you life.

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TEMPO - SHOW BEATLES

BACCARA INTERNATIONAL - FRANCE 1978

ENA BAGA - HAPPY HAMMOND PLAYS LENNON & MCCARTNEY (1970)

Ena Baga was a theater instrumentalist. She was well known for improvising accompaniments for silent films in the 1920s, as well as during the renaissance of interest in silent films that began in the 1970s.

She was born on January 5, 1906, in Clerkenwell, in the city of London, United Kingdom and died on July 15, 2004, in London.

The selection of Lennon & McCartney songs on this record is made up of the following songs, instrumentalized in the famous Hammond organ:

01. Ob-la-di, ob-la-dá;

02. With a little help from my friends;

03. Here, there and everywhere;

04. Can't buy me love;

05. World without love;

06. From me to you;

07. Hey Jude;

08. A hard day's nigh;

09. Eleanor rigby;

10. Michelle;

11. Yesterday.

Ena Baga

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ENA BAGA - HAPPY HAMMOND PLAYS LENNON & McCARTNEY

HALLMARK - ENGLAND 1970

BANDA PLASTICA DE TEPETLIXPA MEXICO - ADIOS A LOS BEATLES (1971)

The album "Adios a Los Beatles" is a curious and eccentric album with versions of some of the successes of the famous British group that, according to the legend, was made as a way of saying goodbye to two of the members of the Beatles, from an unconfirmed visit to the Mexico.

According to reports of the time, the Beatles were incognito in Mexico, to know the priestess María Sabina and, thus, the band of Tepetlixpa wanted to pay tribute to them with this album.

Little is known of this imaginary visit of the Beatles to Mexican lands in 1969, to meet Maria Sabina, the most famous shaman of Mexican mysticism where, it is said, they visited her in Oaxaca. Legend has it that Paul and John, at that time, would have traveled to these places ...!

The “Banda Plastica de Tepetlixpa”, was a band formed by some natives of the city of Tepetlixpa, who recorded this album with 10 cover songs. On the cover, you can see the band with a big sign saying goodbye to the British.

Whatever the story, and if this visit really existed, it's a very eccentric album, no doubt. It is a band, in the style of those that also exist in Portugal, usually based in Recreational Associations, Fire Bands or Philharmonic Bands, with a folk and regional sound, based on saxophones, trumpets, trombones and various percussion instruments of the time, but it is still a sincere, honest and poignant tribute by some Mexican musicians, to the most important and famous English group in the music scene.

On this disc you can hear different, colorful and picturesque versions of classics from the British group, such as Yellow submarine, Yesterday, Hey Jude and Eleanor Rigby, marked by brass and percussion instruments.

Fontes:

https://www.adncultura.org/ - mai/2020

https://yesterdayssoundstodaylatinoeuropean.wordpress.com/ - Dec/2018

The disc was released in Mexico in 1971, by the label Caleidofon. The musical selection is composed of the following songs:

01. Ob-la-di, Ob-la da;

02. I want to hold your hand;

03. Carry that weight;

04. Yesterday;

05. Eleanor rigby;

06. Yellow submarine;

07. Hey Jude;

08. Girl;

09. I should have known better;

10. A hard days night.

Photo: Banda Plastica de Tepetlixpa Mexico - 1971

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BANDA PLASTICA DE TEPETLIXPA MEXICO - ADIOS A LOS BEATLES

CALEIDOFON - MEXICO 1971

EASY LISTENING BEATLES - VARIOUS ARTISTS (1973)

Today, I decided to post another album of tributes to the Beatles. This time I bring a record released in the United States in 1973, Columbia and CBS label and in Europe by the Cameo / Embassy label. They are known interpreters of the world of "Easy listening".

The songs and their respective performers that make up the album are as follows:

01. Hey Jude (Ray Conniff);
02. Fool on the hill (Percy Faith & His Orchestra);
03. Yesterday (Ray Conniff);
04. Eleanor rigby (Johnny Mathis);
05. You've got to hide your love a way (Percy Faith & His Orchestra);
06. My sweet lord (Johnny Mathis);
07. Something (Peter Nero);
08. The long and winding road (Andre Kostelanetz & His Orchestra);
09. Michelle (Andre Kostelanetz & His Orchestra);
10. Variations on the theme "Ob-da-di, ob-la-da (Peter Nero);
11. Let it be (Jerry Vale).

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EASY LISTENING BEATLES

VARIOUS ARTISTS

COLUMBIA / CBS - USA 1973

GRANDES CANCIONES DE LOS BEATLES - VARIOUS ARTISTS - TRIBUTE (1973 ARGENTINA)

In this post, we present a rare tribute compilation to the Beatles, released in Argentina in 1973, by the EMI label, with the label Capitol. The album was recorded in SQ System - Quadraphonic.

The selection of the disc is composed of the following songs and interpreters:

01. Yesterday - Ayer (Tom Vaughn);

02. Michelle (Laurindo de Almeida);

03. Here, there and everywhere - Aqui, alla y en todas partes (The Lettermen);

04. We can work it out - Podemos solucionarlo (The Hollyridge Strings);

05. The fool on the hill - El tonto de la colina (The Sound of Our Times)

06. Something - Algo (Peggy Lee);

07. Norwegian wood - Madera noruega (The Hollyridge Strings);

08. Hey Jude (The Sound of Our Times);

09. Eleanor rigby (Bobbie Gentry);

10. Let it be - Dejalo ser (Tennesse Ernie Ford).

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GRANDES CANCIONES DE LOS BEATLES

TRIBUTE - VARIOUS ARTISTS

EMI / CAPITOL - ARGENTINA 1973

HELEN MERRIL - SINGS THE BEATLES - 1970

Helen Merrill (born Jelena Ana Milcetic, July 21, 1930) is an American jazz vocalist. Merrill's recording career has spanned six decades. She has recorded and performed with notable jazz musicians.

Merrill was born in New York City in 1930 to Croatian immigrant parents. She began singing in jazz clubs in the Bronx in 1944, aged fourteen. By the time she was sixteen, Merrill had taken up music full-time. In 1952, Merrill made her recording debut when she was asked to sing "A Cigarette For Company" with the Earl Hines Band; the song was released on the D'Oro label, created specifically to record Hines' band with Merrill. Etta Jones was in Hines' band at the time and she too sang on this session, which was reissued on the Xanadu label in 1985. At this time she was married to musician Aaron Sachs. They divorced in 1956.

Merrill was signed by Mercury Records for their new Emarcy label. In 1954, Merrill recorded her first LP, an eponymous record featuring trumpeter Clifford Brown and bassist/cellist Oscar Pettiford, among others. The album was produced and arranged by Quincy Jones, who was then twenty-one years old. The success of Helen Merrill prompted Mercury to sign her for an additional four-album contract.

Merrill's follow-up to Helen Merrill was the 1956 LP, Dream of You, which was produced and arranged by bebop arranger and pianist Gil Evans. Evans' work on Dream of You was his first in many years. His arrangements on Merrill's laid the musical foundations for his work in following years with Miles Davis.

After recording sporadically through the late 1950s and 1960s, Merrill spent much of her time touring Europe, where she enjoyed more commercial success than she had in the United States. She settled for a time in Italy, recording an album there and doing concerts with jazz musicians Piero Umiliani, Chet Baker, Romano Mussolini, and Stan Getz. In 1960 arranger composer Ennio Morricone worked with Helen Merrill on an EP "Helen Merrill sings Italian Songs"on the RCA Italiana label.

Parole e Musica: Words and Music was recorded in Italy with Umiliani's orchestra in the early 1960s while Merrill was living there. The LP features the unusual additions preceding each song, of spoken translations of eloquent Italian word lyrics, complementing the ballads and torch songs.

She returned to the U.S. in the 1960s, but moved to Japan in 1966, staying after touring there and marrying Donald J. Brydon (of United Press International) in April 1967. She developed a following in Japan that remains strong to this day. In addition to recording while in Japan, Merrill became involved in other aspects of the music industry, producing albums for Trio Recordsand hosting a show on a Tokyo radio station.

Merrill returned to the US in 1972 and has continued recording and regular touring since then. Her later career has seen her experiment in different music genres. She has recorded a bossa nova album, a Christmas album and a record's worth of Rodgers and Hammerstein, among many others. Two albums from Merrill's later career have been tributes to past musical partners. In 1987, she and Gil Evans recorded fresh arrangements of their Dream of You; the new recordings were released under the title Collaboration and became the most critically acclaimed of Merrill's albums in the 1980s. 

In 1987 she co-produced a CD album, Billy Eckstine Sings with Benny Carter. In 1995 she recorded Brownie: Homage to Clifford Brown as a tribute to the trumpeter. One of her millennium released recordings draws from her Croatian heritage as well as her American upbringing: Jelena Ana Milcetic a.k.a. Helen Merrill (2000). The album combines jazz, pop and blues songs with several traditional Croatian songs sung in Croatian.

Merrill has been married three times, first to musician Aaron Sachs, secondly to UPI vice president Donald J. Brydon, and thirdly to arranger-conductor Torrie Zito. She has one child, a son, Allan, by her first marriage, who is also a singer, known professionally as Alan Merrill.

TRACK LIST:

1. Let it be;
2. Lady Madonna;
3. Because;
4. The word;
5. Norwegian wood;
6. Here, there and everywhere;
7. Golden slumbers;
8. And I love him;
9. In my life;
10. Mother's nature son;
11. If I feel;
12. I want you.

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HELEN MERRIL

SINGS THE BEATLES - 1970

CLAUDINE LONGET - SINGS THE BEATLES - 1978

A atriz e cantora francesa e naturalizada norte americana Claudine Georgette Longet nasceu em Paris, no dia 29 de janeiro de 1942. Foi muito popular nas décadas de 1960 e 1970.

Depois de ter lançado três álbuns como cantora, e de ter participado como atriz de vários episódios de séries de TV ("Dr. Kildare", "Combate", etc.), tornou-se mundialmente famosa por sua participação na comédia "Um convidado bem trapalhão", ao lado de Peter Sellers. Na época, Claudine era casada com o também cantor Andy Williams.

Com sua voz delicada, Claudine fez sucesso interpretando versões de canções como God only knows, Love is blue, Let it be me, A man and a woman, I love how you love me e Until it's time for you to go.

Em 21 de março de 1976, Claudine matou seu então namorado, o esquiador e atleta olímpico Vladimir "Spider" Sabich, com um tiro. Segundo seu depoimento, a arma teria disparado acidentalmente. Após um julgamento bastante divulgado na imprensa, Claudine foi absolvida da acusação de assassinato, mas condenada pela contravenção de negligência criminal, cumprindo pena de 30 dias de prisão.

A partir de então, abandonou a carreira artística, tendo apenas lançado álbuns de compilações de seus antigos sucessos. Desde 1985, está casada com Ron Austin, que foi seu advogado de defesa no processo de 1977, e vive em Aspen.

Nesta postagem, apresentamos o álbum "Sings The Beatles", que se trata de uma compilação de 7 canções gravadas pela cantora Claudine Longet, ao longo da sua carreira, distribuído em diversos álbuns. Além disso, o blog incluiu uma faixa bônus contendo a remixagem de todas as sete canções para ser ouvida em uma única vez.

As músicas do disco são as seguintes:

1. Here, there and everywhere;

2. When I'm sixty four;

3. Good day sunshine;

4. Golden slumbers;

5. Something;

6. Every night;

7. Jealous guy;

Bônus:

8. Singles The Beatles remix

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CLAUDINE LONGET

SINGS THE BEATLES

PAUL MAURIAT - AND HIS ROMANTIC ORCHESTRA - SERIE MELODIES AND MEMORIES - THE BEATLES SONGBOOK - VOLUME 4 - 1974

Nesta postagem, reapresentamos o álbum "The Beatles Songbook", da Orquestra de Paul Mauriat, que foi o volume 4, de uma série de 10 discos, intitulada "Melodies and Memories" e que já tinha sido postado no saudoso blog JB Pimentel.

O disco foi lançado no Brasil em 1974, pela gravadora Phonogram, com o selo (label) Philips e continha as seguintes releituras de canções dos Beatles:

TRACKS:
1 - Let It Be  (2:58)
2 - Michelle  (2:18)
3 - Girl  (2:18)
4 - My Sweet Lord  (3:00)
5 - Eleanor Rigby  (2:10)
6 - Penny Lane  (2:25)
7 - Hey Jude  (3:11)
8 - Goodbye  (2:31)
9 - Get Back  (2:42)
10 - Lady Madonna  (2:13)
11 - Yesterday  (2:28)
12 - Ticket To Ride  (3:10)
13 - A Taste Of Honey  (2:24)
14 - My Love  (2:39) 

 Links:

PAUL MAURIAT 

THE BEATLES SONGBOOK 

PHONOGRAM - PHILIPS BRASIL - 1974 

PAULO CEZAR - OS MAIORES SUCESSOS DOS BEATLES - 1977

Nesta postagem, apresentamos o álbum de versões do baixista e compositor brasileiro Paulo Cezar Barros, intitulado “Os Maiores Sucessos dos Beatles”, lançado no Brasil em 1977, pela gravadora EMI/Odeon, com o selo Coronado.

Para quem não conhece, Paulo César Barros nasceu no Rio de Janeiro, no dia 31/janeiro/1947 e é baixista, compositor, irmão de Renato Barros e do cantor Ed Wilson, que juntos formaram a banda do movimento Jovem Guarda, Renato e Seus Blue Caps.

Entre o final da década de 1950 e o final da década de 1980, Paulo foi o baixista da banda Renato e seus Blue Caps. Na época, com 13 anos de idade, ganhou o concurso "Hoje é Dia de Rock", em 1960 e um dos prêmios era participar do programa do Chacrinha.

Nazareno de Brito, diretor da Copacabana Discos os viu tocando e chamou o grupo para gravar o primeiro álbum. Esse disco não gerou grandes vendas e somente em 1963 foi elaborado um álbum da banda, que tinha em sua formação o cantor Erasmo Carlos, que recém tinha saído do grupo Os Snakes.

Participou de canções com o cantor Reinaldo Rayol, Cleide Alves, já pela CBS, gravadora que começaram a frequentar em 1963. Também acompanhou o cantor Roberto Carlos na gravação da canção Splish Splash, o qual conheceu por meio de Erasmo Carlos, quando tocavam em circos e casas noturnas. Além disso, trabalhou com Wilson Simonal, Michael Sullivan e Rossini Pinto no qual gravou um compacto duplo. Em 1977 deixou de trabalhar com Roberto Carlos.

Em 2005, lançou um disco pela gravadora Som livre, denominado “Entre amigos”, no qual teve participação de vários artistas, incluindo Fagner e Frejat.

O álbum desta postagem foi possível graças ao material obtido do Blog "MrFive" e contém a seguinte seleção de músicas, tributo aos Beatles:

TRACKS:

1. Dona do meu coração (Run for your life);

2. Eu te amo (And I love her);

3. Menina linda (I should have known better);

4. Michele (Michelle);

5. Até o fim (You won't see me);

6. Eu me apaixonei (I feel fine);

7. Você vai ser feliz (From me to you);

8. Feche os olhos (All my loving);

9. Hey Jude (Hey Jude);

10. Ontem (Yesterday);

11. Não consigo te esquecer (The night before);

12. Pra que chorar (Tell me why);

13. Quero afagar tuas mãos (I want to hold your hand);

14. Quis fazer você feliz (If I fell).

In this post, we present the bassist versions album and Brazilian composer Paulo Cesar Barros, entitled "Greatest Hits of the Beatles," released in Brazil in 1977 by EMI / Odeon, with Coronado label.

For those unfamiliar, Paulo César Barros was born in Rio de Janeiro on 31 / Jan / 1947 and is bassist, composer, brother of Renato Barros and singer Ed Wilson, who together formed the band in the Brazilian movement "Jovem Guarda", called Renato and his Blue Caps.

 Alternative Front CD

  Alternative Back Cover CD

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PAULO CEZAR

OS MAIORES SUCESSOS DOS BEATLES


EMI / ODEON - CORONADO - BRASIL 1977