lunes, 15 de julio de 2013

Al Green - Lets Stay Together - 1971


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  1. Al Green - Lets Stay Together – 1971


    Yo, estoy tan enamorado de ti
    Cualquier cosa que quieras hacer
    Esta bien conmigo
    Porque me haces sentir tan nuevo
    Y quiero pasar mi vida contigo

    Desde, desde que estamos juntos
    Amándote por siempre
    Es lo que necesito
    Seré al que vendrás corriendo
    Y nunca te engañare

    Vamos, vamos a estar juntos
    Amándote como sea cuando sea
    Sean buenos o malos tiempos, tristes o felices

    Si los tiempos son buenos o malos, tristes o felices

    ¿Por qué, porque algunas personas se separan?
    Para luego voltear y maquillarse
    No lo puedo entender
    Nunca me harías eso a mí (verdad nena)
    Mantenernos juntos es todo ya verás
    Esto es lo que quiero que hagan

    Vamos, vamos a estar juntos
    Amándote como sea cuando sea
    Sean buenos o malos tiempos, tristes o felices

    Albert Greene (Forrest City, Arkansas, 13 de abril de 1946), mejor conocido con el nombre artístico de Al Green, es un cantante y compositor estadounidense. La mayoría de sus interpretaciones musicales pertenecen a los géneros gospel y soul. Ha sido vastamente reconocido por fusionar estos diferentes estilos musicales entre sí, logrando la unión de lo secular con lo religioso. Durante los años 1970s obtuvo su mayor éxito, convirtiéndose en uno de los músicos con más superventas de esa época. En el año 2008, Green recibió un premio por toda su trayectoria artística llamado Lifetime Achievement Award durante el evento de premiación BET Awards. Su estilo vocal ha sido descrito como un áspero y cálido barítono y un etéreo falsetto.

    "Let's Stay Together" is a song by American singer Al Green from his 1972 album of the same name. It was produced and recorded by Willie Mitchell, and mixed by Mitchell and Terry Manning. Released as a single in 1971, "Let's Stay Together" reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100, and remained on the chart for 16 weeks and also topped Billboard's R&B chart for nine weeks. Billboard ranked it as the number 11 song of 1972.

    It was ranked the sixtieth greatest song of all time by Rolling Stone magazine on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time
    It was selected by the Library of Congress as a 2010 addition to the National Recording Registry, which selects recordings annually that are "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The song went on to claim the number-one position on the Billboard Year-End chart as an R&B song for 1972.

    The song was used in the Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction (1994),the John Singleton film Higher Learning (1995), the 2004 film Hellboy and the 2005 film Munich. It was also used in the 2003 romantic comedy film How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days and can be heard in the films Down to You (2000), Jersey Girl (2004), and the 2012 romantic comedy Hope Springs features the song.

    On television, the song was featured in various shows. It was played in the Parks and Recreation episode "Road Trip". During Leslie Knope and Ben Wyatt's road trip, as assigned by Chris Traeger, they listen to a series of unusual songs, until Let's Stay Together plays. It is later confirmed that Ann Perkins had burned the song in order to get them together. It was parodied by The Fringemunks to recap Fringe episode 2.06, "Earthling", and performed in an episode of Ally McBeal. Kermit Ruffins and his band cover the song in season 2, episode 9 of the HBO series Treme. Likewise, an instrumental version of the song appears in episode 23 of the anime adaptation of Monster.

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