I am not even going to try and start singling stuff out, because some internaut hipster will inevitably come along and leave comments to the effect of “I can’t believe you didn’t mention X, Y, or Z, which is so obviously the best thing here yadda yadda”, like some people did for the Marcos Valle posts I did a few years ago. This is the part of the write-up where I could just start dropping names to emphasize how important he was, so why not just get right to it – Carlos Imperial, Elis Regina, Som Três and César Camargo Mariano, Orlandivo, Stockhausen, Jorge Ben … Mug. The guy was a force of nature, with a croony swagger that could evoke casino show-biz performances, chilling on the beach, or cruising in your favorite fashionable low-mileage automobile. A documentary film about his career as well as this boxset – both mostly spearheaded by his sons – managed to reset the scales of justice a little. The guy was putting out two records a year for a ten-year span, so excuse me if this write-up consists only of saying “Hey this is really good and you should check it out.” Simonal had been one of Brazil’s most popular singers before some unfortunate altercations with his accountant and/or the military government put him on the wrong side of history for a few decades. This is in addition to feeling like I had to write reviews of every album here. I have contemplated doing to many, many times, but always felt this massive burden of having to write some insightful and elegiac homage to Simonal and so I never felt up to the task. To make up for the brief lapse in judgment, I am sharing this behemoth of a boxset. for being reasonable when I couldn’t manage it, and to the handful of people who sent messages. Don’t worry, you were not excluded from the club, it was just a party of one. I took it offline temporarily, and the only way to do that was to “restrict” access to blog authors, but the settings here made it look like it became an invitation-only place. Five years is a long time to keep one of these things going, even though I don’t update it as often as I would like. So a few days ago, stuck in a mire of holiday malaise, I considered closing this blog completely. Nearly-complete artwork (booklet will not scan)Ĭorrect Portuguese orthographic characters in ID tags Disc 1 – Tem Algo Mais and A Nova Dimensão do Samba (1963-64)ĭISC 3 – Vou Deixa Cair and Tempos De Pilantragem (1966-67)ĭ ISC 5 – Alegria, Alegria Volumes 1 and 2 (1967-68)Ģ2- DE COMO UM GAROTO APAIXONADO PERDOOU POR CAUSA DE UM DOS MANDAMENTOSĭISC 6 – Alegria, Alegria Volumes 3 and 4 (1969)Ģ- DESTINO E DESATINO DE SEVERINO NONÔ NA CIDADE DE SAO SEBASTIAO DO RIO DE JANEIRO ( OH YEAH! )ĭISCs 8 and 9 – Singles, lados B e raridies (Singles, B-sides, and rarities)Ĩ- GAROTA LEGAL (You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby)ġ9- MAMAE PASSOU ACUCAR EM MIM ( Versao em Espanhol inedita )ġ0- AQUI E O PAÍS DO FUTEBOL 11- HINO DO FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DA CANCAO
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