James Brown visits São Paulo in 1973

 

James Brown at São Paulo's Congonhas Airport with Wilson Simonal (with sun glasses) & other fans in 1974.

James Brown performed his act at Teatro Municipal on 28 & 29 March 1974, at 9:00 pm which was beamed by TV Tupi, Channel 4. 

Brenda Lee in Brazil

 

29 January 1960 - Correio da Manhã's review of 'Miss Brenda Lee' which had been released in the USA as 'Grandma, what great songs you sang!' in which she sang evergreens like 'Baby face', 'Pennies from heaven', 'Saint Louis blues'...

Decca Records office in Rio comissioned an agency to work on a album cover to be released by them in Brazil called 'Miss Brenda Lee'. They sat down over a copy of Brenda's USA release 'Granda, what great songs you sang!' cut Brenda's figure from the cover and transfered it to a panoramic photo do Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana Beach. There was a blunder though; the artists developed the wrong side of the negative and Brenda's figure was inside-out but it didn't break the illusion Miss Brenda Lee was enjoying the Copacabana scene even if she was dressed to night out...  

This is the original cover of the original album. 

Miss Lee's first album in Brazil, 'A Garota Explosiva!' (The explosive girl), released in 1959.

Paul Anka in Brazil

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12 - Diana / Don't gamble with love

14 - Crazy love / Let the bells keep ringing

15 - You are my destiny / When I stop loving you

25 - My heart sings / That's love

27 - Just young / So it's goodbye

28 - Jambalaya / Pity pity 

35 - Late last night / I miss you 

36 - Lonely boy / Your love

41 - Put your head on my shoulder / Don't ever leave me 

42 - It's time to cry / Something has changed me 

45 - Adam and Eve / Puppy love 

46 - Melodie d'amour / C'est si bon 

48 - Waiting for you / It's really love

49 - My home town / Hello young lovers 

52 - Cinderella / Kissing on the telephone - 1961

55 - The bells at my wedding / Loveland - 1961  

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Bud Anderson of 'Papai Sabe Tudo' (Father knows best) - July 1959

 

Billy Gray played Bud in 'Father knows best'.

Young Johnny Mathis, a San Francisco superman.

 

Teen Magazine, May 1958 - tells all about Johnny Mathis and his agent Helen Noga, petite, dynamic, blonde, a former San Francisco café owner who discovered him, got him a recording contract with Columbia Records, then bought him two new suits and a round-trip ticket to New York where he subsequently cut his first hit, 'Wonderful, wonderful'.  

Johnny has always had everything that would spell success, but there was one hitch: husky-throated 23-year-old has always been incredibly shy - and still is. That's why he needed Helen Noga.

Johnny Mathis & Alan Freed in the late 1950s.

young Johnny Mathis and MC & DJ Alan Freed before the fall...

'Daily Independent Journal', San Rafael, California, 23rd November 1959; Alan Freed is linked to a pay-per-play scheme that eventually brought him down and ultimately killed him. Revenge of the white-supremacist crowd against Freed who championed the Blackman cause. 

Elvis

on a train from New York City to Memphis in July 1956. 

Winfield Scotty Moore III (*27 December 1931 in Gadsden, TN +28 June 2016) & Elvis.

Elvis plays a few records in the US Army in Germany in 1959.

Eddie Pequenino, a rock'n'roll hurricane from Argentina

Eddie Pequenino explains how rock'n'roll has arrived to stay in Argentina & the world - in this April 1957 magazine article for 'Cantando'. Pequenino says rock wasn't actually 'new' being preceded by the blues and the boogie plus the jitterbug as a dance format. 

Eddie Pequenino plays his horn at LR4.

Rockin' n' rollin' at Radio Splendid. 

Eddie Pequenino, Mr. Roll & his Rocks at LR4, Radio Splendid. 

Eddie Pequenino talks to magazine 'Cantando' in October 1957. 

Bill Haley sends Eddie Pequenino a letter saying how much he likes the Argentine musician. Haley tells of his plan to visit South America but he wasn't sure when that would come to fruition. This was reported by 'Cantando' in December 1957. Less than a year later Bill Haley & His Comets would visit Argentina and meet Pequenino in person.

'Frankenstein Rock', Pequenino's greatest hit in Brazil.

78 rpm recorded at Orfeo, in Buenos Aires; released by RGE.

Eddie Pequenino, seus Rockers & Los Hi-Fi's. 1. 'Frankenstein Rock'; 2.'Cielito Rock'; 3. 'When'; 4. 'Do be do be do'; 5. 'Shy'; 6. 'Original Dixieland one-step'; 7. 'Who, why, when, what'. B-side: 1. 'Betty Lou got a new pair of shoes'; 2. 'Harvey's got a girl friend'; 4. 'That's a plenty'; 5. 'Come prima'; 6. 'Ida, sweet as apple cider'; 7. 'El Rancho rock'.

The liner-notes of Eddie Pequenino's 'Viva as férias' (XRLP-6.041) - his first album released in Brazil by independent label RGE didn't say much about him. Boni, the writer, blabbers about what 'férias' (vacations) mean as if nobody in the world knew it. That's typical Brazilian journalism: to expand about nothing! The only information Boni brings to the fore is: 'Eddie Pequenino is considered the best foreign rock band in the USA - he is Argentine. What really matters is Pequenino is really good as a song-writer and performer... he's the best! 

This is the back-cover o 'El show de Eddie Pequenino' which became 'Viva as férias' in Brazil. 

for those kids who bought Eddie Pequenino's extended-play especially lured by 'Frankestein rock', they would never know whether Pequenino was an American act or whatever. 

'Rock Espetacular no.2' featured: 'Frankenstein rock', 'Harvey's got a girl friend', 'Cielito lindo' and 'Betty Lou got a new pair of shoes'.

'Festival de Rock' (XRLP-6040) a compilation album assembled by RGE was actually released a few days before 'Viva as férias' (XRLP-6041); it featured Eddie Pequenino's 'Frankenstein rock'; Don Taylor's cover of Lloyd Price's 'Personality'; 'Tutti frutti' with all-white-boy Pat Boone; 'Pink shoe laces' with Dodie Stevens; Brazilian rock outfit The Playing's cover of Paul Anka's 'That's love' and many others. 

The liner-notes of 'Festival do Rock' - RGE didn't seem to decide on the right title; sometimes it would print it as 'Festival DE rock', sometimes 'Festival DO rock'; well the liner-notes were vacuous and deceptive; the author didn't seem to know much about the recent history of rock'n'roll. Using bad grammar (Há dois anos atrás - is redundant and uncouth) the author says rock originates from hill-billy music, which is only partly true - Rock'n'roll is basically Rhythm'n'blues with addition of boogie, jitterbug and a little hillbilly music. 

This 10" album was released by Columbia in Brazil. It is an Eddie Pequenino recording but his name replaced by Mr. Roll and his Rocks.