sexta-feira, 6 de abril de 2012

0030 – Are you lonesome tonight? - Elvis Presley (1960)

Compositores: Lou Handman e Roy Turk
  • Foi gravada em 4 de abril de 1960, no estudio da RCA, em Nashville, Tennessee e lançada em 1 de novembro de 1960, no compacto que tinha I gotta Know como Lado B. 
     
  • Scotty Moore tocou guitarra, DJ Fontana tocou bateria, Floyd Cramer tocou piano, Hank Garland tocou outra guitarra, Bobby Moore tocou baixo, Buddy Harman tocou percussão e os Jordanaires fizeram backing vocals. 
     
  • Chegou ao número 1 no Billboard Hot 100, Billboard R&B, também número 1 no Reino Unido, Espanha, Africa do Sul, Canadá, Bélgica e Austrália.

  • Foi regravada por muitos artistas, antes e depois de Elvis, entre eles Frank Sinatra, Pat Boone e Doris Day.
A letra:

Are you lonesome tonight?
Do you miss me tonight?
Are you sorry we drifted apart?
Does your memory stray to a brighter summer day
When I kissed you and called you sweetheart?
Do the chairs in your parlour seem empty and bare?
Do you gaze at your doorstep and picture me there?
Is your heart filled with pain, shall I come back again?
Tell me dear, are you lonesome tonight?

I wonder if you're lonesome tonight
You know someone said that the world's a stage
And each must play a part
Fate had me playing in love with you as my sweet heart
Act one was when we met, I loved you at first glance
You read your line so cleverly and never missed a cue
Then came act two, you seemed to change and you acted strange
And why I'll never know
Honey, you lied when you said you loved me
And I had no cause to doubt you
But I'd rather go on hearing your lies
Than go on living without you
Now the stage is bare and I'm standing there
With emptiness all around
And if you won't come back to me
Then they can bring the curtain down

Is your heart filled with pain, shall I come back again?
Tell me dear, are you lonesome tonight?

Elvis em 1968:



A versão de Frank Sinatra:



Uma versão maravilhosa de Norah Jones.




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