The Stonewall Celebration Concert

The Stonewall Celebration Concert
Studio album by Renato Russo
Released 1994
Recorded The album was recorded and mixed late February and March 1994, at Discover Studio, Rio de Janeiro.[1]
Genre Rock, folk
Length 68:55
Label EMI
Producer Carlos Trilha, Renato Russo
Renato Russo chronology
The Stonewall Celebration Concert
(1994)		 Equilíbrio Distante
(1995)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Allmusic[2]

The Stonewall Celebration Concert is the debut studio album by Renato Russo, released in 1994.[1] The album had a sale of 250,000 copies in the first year of its release.[3] Russo does covers of Madonna, Bob Dylan, Nick Drake, Billy Joel, among others.

Social: Tribute and donation

The album was a tribute to twenty five years of the Stonewall riots in New York.[4] Part of the royalties were donated to Ação da Cidadania Contra a Fome, a Miséria e Pela Vida (Citizen Action Against Hunger and Poverty and for Life) campaign.[5]

The booklet provides information twenty-nine social entities, including the Grupo Gay da Bahia, ISER (Instituto de Estudos da Religião/Institute of Religious Studies), Greenpeace, Sociedade Viva Cazuza (Cazuza Viva Society) and ABIA (Associação Brasileira Interdisciplinar de AIDS/Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association).[1]

Songs

The repertoire brings standards of American music and songs featured in films - of which many were part of his musical education. Some of the songs included are: "Cathedral Song", Tanita Tikaram's music phenomenon of the 90's; "Miss Celie's Blues", from the soundtrack of The Color Purple, composed by Lionel Richie, Quincy Jones and Rod Temperton; his own version of the theme of Walt Disney's Pinocchio, "When You Wish upon a Star", written by Ned Washington and Leigh Harline;"Cherish", Madonna's success, but with a more folk tune and his strong vocal impression; and Bob Dylan's record "If You See Her, Say Hello", from the original 1975 album Blood on the Tracks, with the title changed to "If You See Him, Say Hello".[1]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Send in the Clowns" (Stephen Sondheim)3:40
2."Clothes of Sand" (Nick Drake)2:42
3."Cathedral Song" (Tanita Tikaram)2:57
4."Love Is" (Anna McGarrigle, Jane McGarrigle, Kate McGarrigle)3:52
5."Cherish" (Madonna, Patrick Leonard)4:34
6."Miss Celie's Blues" (Lionel Richie, Quincy Jones, Rod Temperton)2:09
7."The Ballad of the Sad Young Men" (Fran Landesman, Tommy Wolf)3:40
8."If I Loved You" (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II)1:55
9."And So It Goes" (Billy Joel)3:06
10."I Get Along Without You Very Well" (Hoagy Carmichael)2:32
11."Somewhere in My Broken Heart" (Billy Dean, Richard Leigh)2:42
12."If You See Him, Say Hello" (Bob Dylan)3:47
13."If Tomorrow Never Comes" (Garth Brooks, Kent Blazy)5:00
14."The Heart of the Matter" (Don Henley, J. D. Souther, Mike Campbell)5:36
15."Old Friend" (Gretchen Cryer, Nancy Ford)3:20
16."Say It Isn't So" (Irving Berlin)3:35
17."Let's Face the Music and Dance" (Irving Berlin)1:32
18."Somewhere" (Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim)4:42
19."Paper of Pins" (Traditional)1:57
20."When You Wish upon a Star" (Leigh Harline, Ned Washington)3:16
21."Close the Door Lightly When You Go" (Eric Andersen)2:21

Personnel

Technical staff

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Stonewall Celebration Concert - Renato Russo - Official". renatorusso.com.br. Retrieved 2014-06-03.
  2. ↑ Allmusic review
  3. ↑ "Renato Russo". professoredley.com.br. Retrieved 2014-06-03.
  4. ↑ "Sai mais um CD do baú do Legião Urbana - Cultura - Estadão (translation: Out another CD chest Legião Urbana - Culture - State". cultura.estadao.com.br. 2001-03-22. Retrieved 2014-06-03.
  5. ↑ BRock - The Brazilian Rock '80s, Arthur Dapieve, Publisher 34
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