Joy (1970) | Oscar Brown Jr. / Jean Pace / Sivuca Original Soundtrack [Full LP]
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- Soundtrack LP of funky Off-Broadway musical revue written By Oscar Brown, Jr. and performed by Brown, Jean Pace (his wife) and Brazilian musician Sivuca. Originally released by RCA records in. 1970, it is out of print/Never on CD. Presented here for historical purposes.
Tracklist:
01. Time (Brown Jr.)
02. What Is A Friend (Brown Jr./Henrique/Sivuca/Shobey)
03. Funny Feelin’ (Brown Jr./Henrique/Pace)
04. Under The Sun (Brown Jr./Pace)
05. Wimmen’s Ways ((Brown Jr)
06. Brown Baby (Brown Jr./Pace)
07. Mother Africa’s Day (Brown Jr./Sivuca)
08. A New Generation (Brown Jr./Pace)
09. Sky And Sea (Alt)
10. If I Only Had (Pace)
11. Nothing But A Fool (Reis/Barbosa)
12. Much As I Love You (Brown Jr./Sivuca/Shobey)
13. Afro Blue (Pace)
14. Funky World (Brown Jr)
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“JOY” is a coming together and goings-on, a here and now-a-days and a once-upon-a, a bearer of good tidngs, a fortuitous circumstance, a look at the life around us. It is one of a hundred things and a hundred things. A song. A dance. A fact. Time.
“Joy” is a musical statement. A philosophical spurt of the moment. To raise laughter, raise hope, raise hob. To entertain audiences. To entertain thoughts of jubilation and lamentation. It sings of people and places - emphasis on the time for joy. The time of joy.
The songs are saying something. They beat their way from Afro blue to brazilliant. They put their arms around you and whisper on your ear. They stand with arms akimbo and grin and guffaw. They hee and haul you to climactic pleasure. They flash a smile, flush out a truth. They turn a phrase and a corner of the world. They dream and they strip away disillusions and leave you with the feeling of one fine morning. They get to you. They get you.
“Joy” begins with “Time”. Wake-up time that “turns on us all and turns us all on”. It looks back at the roots and routes that are traveled from beginning to end, from man to woman, from man to man. It swings back and forth. It ticks and tickles the fanciful and explodes into pleasures.
At the start man found that he was lost. Adam learned he had nothing to go by - except whatever Eve desired. Wimmen’s Ways tells the truth about the weaker sex as Adam learned it. Funny Fellin’ covers the depths of a woman.
How to get what she wants and how to enjoy it.
“Joy has a beginning and an end”. Man also finds it in loyalty and friendship, with the boys, with people. It bridges gaps and shares experiences. It is intimate. And vast. And musical. It jumps from the seat singing of Sky and Sea, jolts its way through the Afro Blue source and emerges at the dawn of a great new Mother Africa’s Day.
Oscar Brown Jr. continues the story. “Now a new generation appears on the scene. Raising babies with love and high hope. Insisting a more joyful time can be shared by all. Aware we are not all wise, but wise we are all on the same mortal trip, striving always to inject more joy into the journey. The new generation is musical. Its musical time comes from the source. From the heartbeat of Mother Africa. The new generation projects that swinging time as a positive moving force to help us all come together for joy. Where are you?”.
“Joy” has grown up from its birth in Chicago in 1966. There were songs then. A communal offering, a communication. Luiz Henrique, from Florianopolis, Brazil, and Jean Pace and Oscar Brown Jr. cradled the dream and sequential moments for seven months. They force fed the project, nurtured the spirit, spread the canvas, enhanced the material. It was a Judy Garland-Mickey Rooney-type saga. From Chicago they came to New York and a Central Park presentation. Then closed for contemplation.
More than two years went by. It is April 1969 in San Francisco. Sivuca, well rounded, well bearded, has replaced Henrique. The musical backing is complete. James Benjamin on bass, Norman Shobey on congo and Everaldo Ferrera, drums. New songs emerged. What was once a thread is now a theme, a point of view. Contrary to the usual procedure, the conception of “Joy” followed the birth. Then in June it opened at San Francisco’s On Broadway Theatre and ran through September.
Now it is Month I of new decade. “Joy” is custom-tailored. An emotional experience. If is a musical that comes together out of folklore and familiar concentration. Out of vinegar and vine-covered courtship. It is adventurous. An adventure. It is a timepiece, a soiree.
It opened January 27,1970, at the New Theatre in New York.
Mort Goode
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simply wonderful
I had bought this album in the 70's. I found it in the dollar bin at McCrory's. I had been so struck by "Wimmen's Ways" and "Brown Baby" that I've performed them from time to time at community venues. Thanks for introducing Oscar Brown et.al. to a new generation.
I first got hip to Sivuca during the summer of 1970 by my mom. I had never seen anyone playing the accordian & scatting,too ! She new that I dug Oscar Brown jr. & Brazilian music. They were on Merv Griffin tv show doing songs from the play. Many years later,when I was performing in Brazil,I met his wife & son. They had been living in Trenton,New Jersey but now in Rio de Janeiro. She had a lp in her bar with his picture on a mountain top....please post ,Sea & SKy"...
class. there are at least a coupe of very serious tunes on this little gem.
Thank you so much for posting!!! I saw this production in New York in 1970(?) Our first play...What an experience: the music, the set...I am enjoying it as much as the first time I was introduced to these artists...waited so long to hear this again. I can't even express the joy I am feeling right now....THANK YOU SO MUCH.
AAAWWWWW That is so wonderful! My name is Africa I am the daughter of Oscar & Jean. I would love to hear more
i too saw the show in NYC. loved it.
Jean and her daughter Africa stayed with my family for a summer in Detroit around '78, and it was a trip.
Hello, this is Africa Brown and I just wanted to reach out and give a warm greeting. Please help me remember you ;-)
Thank you for preserving this recording , particularly "Wimmen's Ways". It took me back to when my mother, Ginny McElroy brought this album when she was working as a Head Start Day Care Center in the Tuxedo Junction Housing Project in the Ensley Section of Birmingham.
I saw this in San Francisco during it's very short run. Was great.
I found the song book but not the album
My friends went to see it in NY
Please give us some more feedback my name is Africa Brown I am the daughter of Oscar & Jean. Would love to hear more.
@@josebelindo1641 Hello my name is Africa Brown I am the daughter of Oscar & Jean and I would love to hear more.
@@africabrown8507 In 1966 I went to see Joy 66 almost every other weekend at the Happy Medium! I absolutely loved the show. I have always loved the work of your dad. He was brilliant! This show was the perfect fit for him and your mom. Every number was always new and fresh. Listening to these cuts brings me back to those days and the joyous feelings of inspired music and words. Your parents were always extremely gracious in meeting folks after the show and accepting compliments, especially from groupies like myself. After one show, I gave them a small, handblown glass unicorn that I felt represented both their gentleness and strength.
Thanks for posting. I hope someone can post each song individually!
Nos passos de Sivuca
Seu Severino
Salve mestre
Aqui atuando tambem como diretor musical
Alem de compositor e instrumentista em 7 faixas ou mais.
CLassic Soundtrack.