Sunday 15 January 2017

1 9 6 3 - Bossa Nova, Kirk Douglas, Maurice Chevalier, Ray Charles

Kirk Douglas & wife Anne Buydens in Rio for Carnaval 1963.
13 January 1963 -  Mugui – Japanese night-club on Rua Augusta – show at 0:30 AM and 4:30 AM. Shan Du Show with Nancy Mary & Noburo Taki with  Ichiro Nakagawa & His Combo Brasa Nova; Tonia Carrero was in 'Tiro e queda' at TBC; comedienne Dercy Gonçalves was 'Senhora Presidenta' 50 years before Dilma Rousseff became the 1st Brazilian Presidenta (female president).
18 January 1963 - Bossa Nova was getting bigger with more & more shows attended by university students. Teatro Record had a special Bossa Monday night with some of the best acts around. This trend would go on a crescendo which culminated in 1964-1965; Tonia Carrero was at TBC.
20 January 1963 - Teatro Record emulates Carnegie Hall's 21 November 1962 Bossa Nova splash and presents its own Bossa Nova Monday night show with Marisa, Lucio Alves, Tamba Trio, Os Cariocas, Claudette Soares, Doris Monteiro, Roberto Menescal & His Combo plus Sexto Bossa Rio.
20 January 1963 - from Tuesday through Sunday Teatro Record presents 'Boa noite, Betina' a musical comedy with Otelo Zeloni, Anilza Leoni, Raquel Martins, Walter Stuart, Solange França, Manoel Vieira, Augusto M.de Campos, Aliomar de Matos & Ballet 'Tio Samba'... as one can see they used the same ballet corps formed for Aloysio de Oliveira's extravaganza 'Tio Sam...ba'.
10 February 1963 - Mary Wynne tells all: Italian actor Rossano Brazzi stayed at the Othon Palace Hotel on Praça do Patriarca on his way south to Jacarezinho, a small city in Parana, where he was to play the male lead in 'Pão de Açucar' aka 'Instant love', with Rhonda Fleming & Odete Lara. Ms Wynne tells the latest news about pianist Freddy Feld too:

Ms Wynne says: Freddy Feld já recebeu seu Sacizinho de Ouro como o melhor pianista três vezes - 1957 - 1958 - 1959 voltou do Rio, onde obteve o auxilio da Embaixada Americana na tentativa de conseguir levar seu trio a Boyne Mountain Lodge em Michigan... nada adiantou devido a tal Musicians' Union... Mas, por outro lado, o Freddy foi convidado para tocar no Top Club do Baron Von Stukkart (Vogue) a ser inaugurado breve...
10 February 1963 - TV Record, Channel 7 presents Friedrich  Durrenmatt's 'Der Besuch der alten Dame' (A visita da velha senhora) with Cacilda Becker, Sergio Cardoso, Fredi Kleeman, & Kleber Machado - directed by Walmor Chagas.
Brazilian PR man Mauricio Kus is greeted warmly by Kirk Douglas in a social function in São Paulo. 
23 February 1963 - Hollywood star Kirk Douglas visits Brasilia and is fascinated with he sees. Brazil was a country on the move in 1963...
3 March 1963 - Ms Wynne tells all about Kirk Douglas, who was visiting Brazil and going to many night-clubs in Brasilia, Rio & Sao Paulo.
Kirk Douglas signs autographs to fans at União Cultural Brasil-Estados Unidos in São Paulo.
Kirk Douglas application to the Brazilian Consulate in Los Angeles, California to visit Brazil.
3rd March 1963 - Mary Wynne says: Orlando Alvarado, o mestre do Ballet Espanhol do restaurante 'Noites Ibéricas', vai ser homenageado na terça-feira, dia 5, ai mesmo no famoso restaurante luso-espanhol da rua Sebastião Pereira, 184 na Santa Cecília.
22nd March 1963 - Teatro Record presents its II Bossa Nova Festival on a Friday night with Sylvia Telles, Tamba Trio, Os Cariocas, Baden Powell, Carlos Lyra, Alaíde Costa, Ana Lucia & Geraldo Vandré plus the combos of Pedrinho Mattar & Moacyr Peixoto. 
22nd March 1963 - the musical revue produced for 1962's Roquette Pinto Award Gala at Teatro Record was so dazzling and grandiose that the revue-sans-the-Awards kept on being shown at the Rua da Consolação theatre for a few days. The 1963 Revista do Roquette Pinto in particular had a longer run than the former years.  
22nd March 1963 - Mary Wynne tells about the shows produced at Teatro Record... and thanks Maria Eliza from TV Record to have sent her her free-tickets.
26 March 1963 - World famous French transexual Coccinelle strutted her thing on the stage of Teatro Record on Wednesday (27) and Thursday (28) at 8:00 PM and 10:00 PM.  Born in Paris as Jacques Charles Dufresnoy, she took the stage name Coccinelle making her debut as a transgender showgirl in 1953 at Chez Madame Arthur. In 1958 she traveled to Casablanca to undergo a vaginoplasty. Coccinelle became really famous after she appeared in Alessandro Blasetti's 'Europa di notte'.
31st March 1963 - Mary Wynne introduces two new-faces in Sao Paulo's night ligh-life: Luiz Carlos Paraná and Tommy Standen: Neither act had his 'definite name' yet: the first started as Luiz Carlos and then changed to Carlos Paraná... he would change it definetely to Luiz Carlos Paraná a few years later; the second was introduced as Tommy Staden... he would add an N to his surname and be known as Tommy Standen for 8 years until he changed it to Terry Winter and finally got to #1 in the charts with 'Summer holiday'.  

Em foto hoje, 2 jovens cantores: Carlos Paraná e Tommy Staden. O primeiro é cantor-guitarrista, antes conhecido como Luiz Carlos quando no Clube 550; está estreando a nova fase musical de Le Barba; ao mesmo tempo que saiu seu 1o. disco pela RCA, 'Migalhas' (tango) e 'Vou morte de A....' (guarânia), ambas de sua autoria. 

Tommy Staden, que na foto parece muito o tipo Elvis Presley não é da nova geração americana, mas é do 'set britanico'. Canta e toca guitarra especializado em twist, rock, balada etc., atuando com o conjunto The Jordans, deve estrear brevemente na boite Waikiki. Mary Wynne, 31st March 1963. 
7 April 1963 - while Bossa Nova was picking up as a desirable 'product' Jazz with the São Paulo Dixieland Band was trying to do the same its Brazilian relation did: having jam-sessions every Monday night at Teatro Oficina while Bossa Nova had Teatro de Arena the same time-slot. Virtusoso guitarrist and banjo player Dudu, who had played rock'n'roll with The Avalons during 1959 and 1960 was back with his true passion: Dixieland jazz.
14 April 1963 - at Juãozinho Saloon on Rua Augusta, 2203, underground – dancing dinner with rock instrumental band The Jet Blacks; top-entertainer Nelson Gonçalves at Michel, rua Major Sertorio, 106; at TAIB - Teatro Alternativo Israelita Brasileiro - they were showing An-Ski's 'O Dibuk' translated into Portuguese by Jaco Guinsburg; at Teatro Record, comedian Chico Anisio did his one-man-stand-up-comedy act twice daily;
14 April 1963 - Bernard Shaw's 'Caesar and Cleopatra' produced and starred by Cacilda Becker staged at her own Teatro Cacilda Becker on Av. Brigadeiro Luiz Antonio, 917; Italian movie-star Vittorio Gassman & Teatro Popolare Italiano in 'Oreste' and 'Il gioco degli eroi' at Theatro Municipal sponsored by TV Record; Russian ballet Moissoeiv with 115 members. In the movies there was Sarita Montiel with 'Perfidia', originally called 'Piel canela' a Cuban-Mexican co-production made in 1953 at Cine Regina & Cine Barão.
21 April 1963 - at Saloon on rua Augusta, rock band The Jet Blacks reigned supreme... they were the first really serious instrumental rock band and made history... 
21st April 1963 - Teatro Record presents 'III Festival da Bossa Nova' with Tamba Trio plus the combo of  Luiz Cesar, Luiz Chaves & Rubinho - which with the addition of pianist Amilton Godoy in 1964 would become the popular Zimbo Trio; North-American dancer Lennie Dale & Martha Botelho would introduce the Bossa Nova dance - devised not long before at Rio de Janeiro's night-club 'Au Bon Gourmet'.
21st April 1963 - ever-green comedian Dercy Gonçalves is 'Senhora Presidenta' - at Teatro Natal some 40 years before Dilma Rousseff became the first and only (so far) Presidenta of Brazil.
21st April 1963 - Jewish theatre TAIB - Teatro de Arte Israelita Brasileiro is not having 'O Dibuk' tonight - instead they're having a memorial service to honour the Warsaw Ghetto uprising which took place from 19 April to 16 May 1943; An-Ski's 'O Dibuk' translated by Jacó Guinsburg, directed by Graça Mello.
28 April 1963 - Monday night at Teatro Record: 'I Encontro Samba-Jazz' with Dick Farney, Moacyr Peixoto, Casé & Pedrinho Mattar plus Leny Andrade and Dave Gordon. Following the triumph of the previous 3 Bossa Nova nights at Teatro Record, manager Paulo Machado thought it good to go a little further afield and bring what some people called Samba-Jazz to the fore: singer pianist Dick Farney, pianists Moacyr Peixoto and Pedrinho Mattar would fit the bill all right. Leny Andrade whose specialty was scat-singing would be right on top too... plus Dave Gordon, a singer from British Guiana who was married to Denise Duran, sister of late Dolores Duran
28 April 1963 - Teatro Records presents 'Oito mulheres' with Dulcina, Maria Fernanda and 6 other stars... 
28 April 1963 - at Teatro Cacilda Becker, Bernard Shaw's 'Cesar e Cleopatra' with Cacilda herself & Ziembinski...
12 May 1963 - Mexican movies were popular in Brazil in the 50s & 60s. Pel-Mex's 1952's 'El derecho de nacer' (O direito de nascer) with Jorge Mistral was back at Cine Marco Polo; 1957's 'El bolero de Raquel' (O engraxate) was Cantinflas at his best; 20th Century Fox's 1962's 'The longest day' (O mais longo dos dias) which might be dubbed 'The most boring day' was playing at Cine Marrocos; French chansonier Gilbert Becaud was visiting São Paulo, performing at Theatro Paramount and TV Excelsior; comedienne Dercy Gonçalves showed all her roughness-cum-vulgarity in 'Siamo tutti tarados' which in free-translation means 'We are all degenerate'; at Michel night-club Edith Veiga sang nightly.

21st July 1963 - Have a look at all the stars that were shining brightly on Sao Paulo's night life: stating with Alaide Costa, Moacyr Peixoto Trio & Sabá Trio at A Baiuca; Rock'n'roll king Carlos Gonzaga at Black Jack boite; a whole musical revue at Bum-Bum-Bum with Paula do Salgueiro, movie star Marlene França & many others in 'Sambolelé'; at Cambridge Bar on Avenida 9 de Julho, Maricene Costa sings with Pedrinho Mattar Trio; at Fasano on Avenida Paulista, Uccio Gaeta & his combo; at Juão Sebastião Bar, Claudette Soares & Leny Andrade with their different combos; at Juãozinho aka Saloon on Rua Augusta which was a rock'n'roll joint, The Jordans kept on playing their loud rock'n'roll trying to emulate The Jet Blacks; at Michel on Rua Major Sertorio 1950s Os Demonios da Garoa that would have a big come back in late 1964 were still singing their quaint sort of 'Paulista samba'; and finally at Pierrot, Denise Dumont & Geraldo Cunha were doing their (separate) thing.

11 August 1963 - It is almost unbelievable Maurice Chevalier who would turn 75 years old in exactly 4 weeks: Maurice Auguste Chevalier who was born in Paris on 12 September 1888, was still working hard on the stage. It makes one wonder what poor Maurice did with the millions of dollars he earned in Hollywood in the 1920s, 30s, 40s & 50s.
11 August 1963 - Mary Wynne writes: This evening at 6:00 PM there will be a press-conference at Terrazza Martini, at Conjunto Nacional on Avenida Paulista where 'magnifique' Maurice Chevalier will again meet Mr. Freddy who is considered by many as 'the Chevalier who lives in Sao Paulo'. They have met before in France when this photo was taken (the photo unfortunately did not appear - only a black spot in its place). Tomorrow (12 August 1963) Mr Chevalier will perform at Teatro Record at 9:00 PM. 
18 August 1963 - Variety theatre Natal had two different halls: Sala Vermelha (Red Room) presented 'Tem bôas p'ra tudo', a pun on an Alcides Gerardi hit-song called 'Tem bôbo p'ra tudo' - they only exchanged the word 'bôbo' (fool, simpleton) for 'bôa' (broad); popular movie actress & show-girl Sonia Mamede was the revue star; at Sala Azul (Blue Room) show-girl Marly Marley stars in 'Miss Universo é nossa' (Miss Universe is ours) in reference to the fact that Miss Brazil 1963, Yeda Maria Vargas was chosen as Miss Universe in Miami just a month ago. Brazilians followed the Miss Universe pageant with bated breath ever since 1954 when Martha Rocha was the runner-up.
Sonia Mamede & Marly Marley at Teatro Natal.
18 August 1963 - actress-singer Bibi Ferreira plays Eliza Doolittle in the Brazilian version of 'My fair lady' translated quaintly as 'Minha querida lady'; Edson França plays professor Henry Higgins... now I don't know how Henrique Pongetti, the translator, went about dealing with the Cockney pronunciation of words...
18 August 1963 -
'Os ossos do barão' original cast; Rubens de Falco, Leila Abramo, Otelo Zeloni, Cleide Yaconis, 1, 2 de óculos, Dina Lisboa, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, Aracy Balabanian, 10.  
Pedrinho Mattar and his 1963 album for Farroupilha Records.
18 August 1963 - Estadão columnist Mary Wynne congratulates pianist Pedrinho Mattar on his 27th birthday; Mattar was born in Santos-SP on 19 August 1936 and 'Velha Guarda' singer Aracy de Almeida, who turns 49 years old, she was born in Rio de Janeiro-DF on 19 August 1914.

1st September 1963 - Rio de Janeiro: the best Bossa Nova acts were signed by TV Rio: Wilson Simonal, Lucio Alves, Sylvio Cesar and others...  
22nd September 1963 - What a terrific Sunday for Sao Paulo to boast: the great Ray Charles with orchestra and chorus at Clube Atletico Paulista at 4:00 PM; see what & who follows below:
22nd September 1963 - at Teatro Record at 5:00 and 9:00 PM Italian crooner Nico Fidenco followed by Mexican Norma Herrera; look at the opening act: Isaurinha Garcia accompanied by Tamba Trio; if one goes down rua da Consolação one would then see Baden Powell & Ana Lucia at Teatro de Arena at 9:00 PM; on the Monday, 23 September, French-Italian-Egyptian singer Dalida had her recital at Teatro Record.
22nd September 1963 - Brazilian pop music at Mackenzie's Centro Academico: at 9:00 PM at Auditorio Ruy Barbosa the 'Primeira Noite de Bossa à Bessa' with Geraldo Cunha, Claudette Soares, Marisa, Maricene Costa, Ana Lucia, Thelma, Geraldo Vandré, Paulinho Nogueira, Sylvio Cesar, Chico Buarque, Taiguara, Nivaldo, Luiz Bonfá, Wilson Simonal, Papudinho, Bossa Trio, Pedrinho Mattar, Os Poligonais, Sabá & Manfredo. Some especially invited people from Rio de Janeiro are: Sylvinha Telles, Lucio Alves, Roberto Menescal & Odete Lara.
P.S.: I highlighted Chico Buarque's name because I think this is the first time ever Buarque's name is mentioned in a publication. I may be wrong; I'm open to be challenged.

22nd September 1963 - French-Italian-Egyptian singer Dalida sings at Teatro Record on the Monday, 23rd September 1963.
29 September 1963 - French singer Dalida's two last days at Teatro Record; At Teatro de Arena, Ana Lucia & Baden Powell have their last recital.
3rd October 1963 - A brand-new comedy 'O melhor juiz, o rei', by playwrights Gianfrancesco Guarnieri, Augusto Boal & Paulo José.
20 October 1963 - US dancer Lennie Dale at Teatro de Arena as of 22 October 1963.
20 October 1963 - at Teatro de Arte Israelita Brasileiro 'Raizes profundas' spoken in Yiddish.
12 November 1963 - Spanish diva Sarita Montiel sings at Teatro Record; Claudette Soares sings with Walter Wanderley and Paulinho Nogueira at Teatro de Arena; later on Claudette sings at Juão Sebastião Bar in the same show as Pery Ribeiro accompanied by Manfredo; Claudia Moreno sings at Belisco, on Rua Caio Prado; Pedrinho Mattar plays his piano and Maricene Costa sing at the Cambridge Bar; Luiz Loy & his combo play at Fasano on Avenida Paulista; Raul Gil and Demetrius sing at Michel;  pianist Fred Feld plays at The Pub on the corner of rua São Luiz and Praça Dom Jose Gaspar; Bibi FerreiraPaulo Autran & Jaime Costa play 'My Fair Lady' at Teatro Paramount for the umpteenth time.
12 November 1963 - Spanish superstar Sarita Montiel has 2 recitals on Tuesday, 12 November 1963, at Teatro Record: at 5:00 PM for the families & their children and then at 9:00 PM for adults.
1st December 1963 - only 7 weeks after Nico Fidenco took to the stage of Teatro Record, another Italian singer - Emilio Pericoli presents his repertoire to the Brazilian public. Soon, Italian records would take over the Brazilian charts in what is known as the Italian music invasion. It's no coincidence that the Fidenco & Pericoli - 2 of the initial 'invaders' were the very first to present themselves in person in Brazil: Emilio Pericoli's 'Al di là' was the first Italian record to reach the top of the Brazilian charts in 1963; then Fidenco's 'Legata a un granello di sabbia' also went all the way to Number One in the charts.
8 December 1963 - not only Teatro de Arena & Teatro Oficina had Bossa Nova nights... look at TAIB - Teatro de Arte Israelita Brasileiro with Pery Ribeiro & Manfredo Fest Trio;  at Teatro Aliança Francesa one could go to hear & see the Bossa Nova of Thelma Soares, Walter Santos & Sabá Trio plus baroque music to boot.
8 December 1963 - at Juão Sebastião Bar at rua Major Sertorio, 772: Pery Ribeiro & Conjunto de Manfredo aka Manfredo Fest Trio plus Claudette Soares with the combo of Walter Wanderley.
22nd December 1963 - just 2 days after Christmas Oscarito premieres 'Zero à esquerda' a revue written by Jose Wanderley & Mario Lago with Raquel Martins, Margot Louro (Oscarito's wife), Renato Restier (maybe Brazilian cinema's most famous bad-man alongside Aurelio Texeira) & others. Oscarito had always worked at the theatre even when he was the most popular cinema comedian in the country. Brazilian film industry never paid big salaries like those earned by American stars in Hollywood so even our biggest film-stars had to make personal appearances at theatres to supplement their income. By 1963-1964 Brazilian musical-comedy-films were anything but dead & buried and their former stars were almost forgotten but not gone yet. Oscarito who was born in Malaga, Spain on 16 August 1906, died on 4 August 1970, 12 days short of his 64th birthday. 

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