Monday, January 08, 2007

Os Guanabara Boys - Dancando com as Garotas (N/A)

Let's move forward presenting another fine selection from our friend Caetano Rodrigues, a very hard to find Bossa Nova LP with several hidden surprises on it. Thanks Caetano, I think Loronixers will have a lot of fun with this release.

This is Os Guanabara Boys - Dancando com as Garotas (N/A), for Imperial. The tracklist is one of the surprises, it is almost impossible to realize this record date, but we can consider this LP an early conceptual record, since all tracks have songs with names of women. Second hidden treasure is the crooner, the lead singer, by the way, another successful Caetano Rodrigues analysis; he could identify the voice of Aloysio de Oliveira from previous recordings, specially those ones at the box set O Maximo da Bossa, for Elenco. The third and last can be easily found examining the back cover, all arrangements are from Antonio Carlos Jobim and Orlando Silveira.

Twelve songs with name of girls, the Legendary Aloysio de Oliveira on lead vocals and all arrangements by Antonio Carlos Jobim, you cannot go wrong with Os Guanabara Boys. Tracks include:

01 - Aurora (Mário Lago / Roberto Roberti)
02 - Helena Helena (Antônio Almeida / Constantino Silva "Secundino")
03 - Zazá (Joel de Almeida)
04 - Rosa Morena (Dorival Caymmi)
05 - Emília (Haroldo Lobo / Wilson Batista)
06 - Maria (Ary Barroso / Luis Peixoto)
07 - Marina (Dorival Caymmi)
08 - Dolores (Arlindo Marques Júnior / Marino Pinto / Alberto Ribeiro)
09 - Ai Que Saudades da Amélia (Ataulfo Alves / Mário Lago)
10 - Magdalena (Ari Macedo / Airton Amorim)
11 - Juraci (Antônio Almeida / Ciro de Souza)
12 - Um Nome de Mulher (Tom Jobim / Vinicius de Moraes)