Hello, good evening! I’m happy I don’t need to buy a Mac. I’m old for such change. I would like to inform that my computer nightmare has gone to a term today. Thanks a lot to everybody who wrote me with suggestions, tips and tricks. It seems that everybody is a computer specialist today. Thanks a lot Matt from the essential Beta Particle for making available resources to a virtual conference call, not needed because Jason guided this computer illiterate parrot to a utility that fixed the problem as magic.Anyway, now I can focus on something I’m doing that has a strong influence to this post. I’m trying to write an article to approach on a structured manner a fascinating aspect of Brazilian instrumental music in the 60’s, which is the use of nicknames by renowned artists on records, such like Ed Lincoln recording as Don Pablo de Havana, the last released provided by Jose Ignacio Neto. It is incredible the number of musicians who made such thing. I think the most popular and relevant case is Bob Fleming, a fictional musician created by Nilo Sergio’s Musidisc label that had two artists playing the Bob Fleming role, the legendary Moacyr Silva and Zito Righi. Let’s see.
This is Bob Fleming – Bob Fleming Interpreta Boleros Volume 3 (1965), for Masterpiece Masters, a Musidisc label. I never found official information on which musician is behind each Bob Fleming release, but this one seems to be a Moacyr Silva session, delivering renditions of Bolero standards with his sax tenor. This cover is scaring at a first sight, but soon you will get used with the naked ladies around the sax. Tracks include:
01 - Charade (H. Mancini) Just For Tonight (J. Mercer / H. Carmichael)
02 - Sin Motivo (Gabriel Ruiz) Ay de Mi (O. Farrés)
03 - Amor (Gabriel Ruiz / R. L. Mendes) Abrazame Asi (M. Clavel)
04 - Accarezzame (Calvi / Nisa) Arrivederci (U. Bindi / G. Calabrese)
05 - Star Dust (H. Carmichael / M. Parish) Fly Me To The Moon (B. Howard)
06 - Sta Sera Pago Io (Modugno) Amapola (J. M. Lacalle)
07 - Desesperadamente (G. Luis / R. L. Mendes) Angustia (Orlando Brito)
08 - Rose (Michael / H. Salvador) Trop Beau (L. Amade / Gilbert Bécaud)
09 - Acercate Más (O. Farrés) Quizas Quizas Quizas (O. Farrés)
10 - Cuando Calienta El Sol (Carlos Rigual / Mário Rigual) Besame Mucho (Consuelo Velasquez)
11 - Uno Pertutti (T. Remis / A. Testa / Mogol) Io Che Amo Solo Te (Sergio Endrigo)
12 - Nessuno Al Mondo (R. Gioia) Al Di Lá (Mogol / Donida)
Hello Zeca, greetings from China!
ReplyDeleteSo I can see you have taken up the theme of pseudonimous recordings after the Don Pablo sessions...certainly a fun game.
One of the comments suggested that Nilo Sergio was behind Os Romanticos de Cuba and that is correct, confirmed to me by Durval Ferreira (himself user of psuedonyms such as 'Gatuss' and 'Devel'!) who also told me that Moacyr Silva was Bob Fleming. Now whether Musidisc 'owned' the name Bob Fleming or whether Moacyr was the only Bob Fleming is difficult to say!
Abracos,
JIN