Tuesday, February 27, 2007

O Grupo - O Grupo (1968)

Hello, Good Night! Promising night by the way, as the nights with Caetano's music uses to be. The daily plan has already been established by a phone call with Caetano Rodrigues. Covers are photographed, music is ready, zecalouro is dreaming and I'm really excited to start the posts of the day. Nothing can be stopping me today, no refrigerator, no photo issues, nothing. Everything is running, as it should be today. Cross your fingers, we will have a great night. By the way, even with those troubles, every night sponsored by Caetano is great.

This is O Grupo - O Grupo (1968), for Odeon. Four boys making vocalizes with the support of top-notch arrangers. I spoke with Caetano to gather more information of this group; Caetano said that this record is probably the first and only album released by O Grupo. Perhaps Odeon considered O Grupo a great promise, putting the best team of arrangers to work with O Grupo. Five Maestros were on the set, each one collaborating individually on given tracks. They are represented on track list. O Grupo is a quartet, featuring Roberval, Raimundo, Jaime e Maurício. Tracks include:

01 - Alegria de Carnaval (Antônio Adolfo / Tibério Gaspar) (1)
02 - Januária (Chico Buarque) (1)
03 - Passa Por Mim (Marcos Valle / Paulo Sergio Valle) (2)
04 - Pelas Ruas de Recife (Marcos Valle / Paulo Sergio Valle) (1)
05 - Rosa Branca (Antônio Adolfo / Tibério Gaspar) (1)
06 - O Bonde (Roberval Pereira Filho / Hedys Barroso Neto) (4)
07 - Sá Marina (Antônio Adolfo / Tibério Gaspar) (1)
08 - Eu e a Brisa (Johnny Alf) (1)
09 - Morrer de Amor (Oscar Castro Neves / Luvercy Fiorini) (2)
10 - Travessia (Milton Nascimento / Fernando Brant) (3)
11 - Diane (Antônio Adolfo / Paulo Sergio Valle) (1)
12 - Maria Carnaval e Cinzas (Luis Carlos Paraná) (5)

(1) Maestro Antonio Adolfo
(2) Maestro Lyrio Panicalli
(3) Maestro Carlos Monteiro de Souza
(4) Maestro Hugo Marotta
(5) Maestro Nelsinho