Ed Lincoln - Ao Teu Ouvido (1960) - Ed Lincoln Debut LP

Ed Lincoln has released many records in the 60's. In the other hand, the information available about Ed Lincoln discography is as rare as his LPs. zecalouro has been with this LP, Ao Teu Ouvido, Ed Lincoln debut LP (1960), for a long time without any significant information to share. The coverarts are also very hard to get on reasonable quality. This is a major concern for collectors, since the recording companies do not use to keep the old LP covers filed and available to public.

By surprise, reading an Ed Linconl interview for CD-Baby, I found an amazing story behing this LP, which was also released with 3 other titles: Boite, Impacto and Ontem Hoje e Sempre. It seems to be the first LP where Eduardo Linconl is listed as Ed Lincoln, his definitive artistic name.

With the help of CD-Baby, that is the story, by Ed Lincoln own words:

CD-Baby: What was your first Ed Lincoln record?

Ed Lincoln: There's another story here! When I was playing at Drink and it was such a success that friend of mine who had started his own small label, Helium, asked me to record with him. As there wasn't much of a budget so we did the record as a favor at the Radio Nacional studios in the afternoon of November 2 1958. I remember because it's the 'Day of the Dead' here in Brasil and a holiday. As Helium didn't have any money at all, let alone to do the cover art, they did a deal with the editor of a woman's magazine - this guy would supply the artwork in return for me writing a song and listing him as co-author, interesting huh? But it was worth it because it was due to this guy at Helium that I became Ed Lincoln - he thought that Eduardo Lincoln wasn't commercial enough and he changed the name - well he was right wasn't he? The cover featured a man and a woman and she's whispering into his ear. The title was Ao Teu Ouvido - literally In your Ear. It may seem strange, but this record can still be found today - I found one in Japan selling for $188!

zecalouro is opening the post with the Boate cover and showing his best Ao Teu Ouvido as a miniature.