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.
Hello, just a word to tell
ReplyDelete1) thanks
2)the information you found on Cdbaby come from an interview of Ed Lincoln by passionate guys of the WatMusic label, an english label thaht has reedited The first three Orlandivo albums and the Ed Lincoln of 68 plus a lot more in all style. They are great.
http://www.whatmusic.com/info/productinfo.php?productid=174&menulevel=brasilian%20cds&returnurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whatmusic.com%2Fmusicstore%2FBrasilian_cd_6.php
Te falei lorico, todo mundo quer esse Ed Lincoln 1968
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Sack O'Woe (O Melhor que eu já ouvi, supera Cannonball Adderly e George Benson), então usa essas asas ai e voa e posta ai pra gente.
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Rufino
Hello Anonymous,
ReplyDeleteThank you.
The dudes at WhatMusic are really great. There is nothing that can stop them when they are searching for information about an artist, which includes cold calls to Brazilian labels and interviews, such like this one with Ed Lincoln.
Rufino,
I know that this 68 is on the shortlist of everybody. Perhaps we will need to import to make it available here, which is something at least unbelievable. Keep trying.
zecalouro
Zeca a cada música que procuro, mais fico feliz de ver que ainda existe pessoas com bom gosto. Parabens, amigo.
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Hi guys,
ReplyDeleteJust dropping by to say hi. I am the guy who conducted this interview with Ed Lincoln for the label I started in 2000 called Whatmusic. I left the label in 2003 after overseeing around 80 reissues. The guy who worked with me on the jazz reissues also left around that time. You can see the effect this had in the lack of new releases since that time (most of them were programmed by us before we left).
Anyway I've been reading through Loronix and there are many little bits of information that I can share on many records - info that mostly comes from my time working with people like Durval Ferreira, Joao Donato, Bill Horne, Americo from Equipe, Jose Rozenblit from Top Tape and Rosemblit, Ed Lincoln, Raul de Souza, Orlandivo, Edson & Tita Lobo, Ed Motta, and many other important people who helped me to put the jigsaw pieces together.
Um grande abraco,
Gary
Hello Gary,
ReplyDeleteNice to read you at Loronix to help us on our quest to document Brazilian music legacy.
Feel free to drop comments anytime and also reach me at zecalouro@gmail.com.
Regards, zeca