Brazilian Pop
Friday, June 28, 2024
Marta & I at Antonio Aguillar's 1960s photo exhibition in January 2004
Monday, May 27, 2024
A Gazeta & A Gazeta Esportiva
Tuesday, May 21, 2024
Radio Nacional Paulista
Thursday, February 22, 2024
Adelino Moreira, a songwriter of torch songs
There was a time in the 1950s when Adelino Moreira was probably the most popular song writer in the Brazil. Adelino wrote mostly 'torch songs' that told of betrayal, women who ended up on the wrong side of the tracks, drunkeness, masochism, sadism and all sorts of human feelings and conditions. Nelson Gonçalves (born on 21st June 1919) by far the most popular crooner in the 1950s, usually got to sing Adelino's best songs and sold hundreds of thousands of records up to the early 1960s, before Brazilian rock'n'roll caught up with them.
Adelino Moreira de Castro was born on 28 Mach 1918, in a small village near Pôrto, Portugal. His father Serafim and mother Rosa migrated to Brazil in 1919, when little Adelino was only 1 year old, so he grew up in Rio de Janeiro.
Tuesday, May 23, 2023
Mary Wynne & her São Paulo night-club column at Estadão
We don't know with certainty when US citizen Mary Wynne started as a journalist at daily 'O Estado de São Paulo' for she began her role working 'behind the scenes'. We presume she was first given the task of assembling a list of the best restaurants and night-clubs in town and publish it among the cinema & theatre ads section at the last pages of the newspaper.
A column called 'Bares Boites Restaurantes' was first published on 6 June 1954. From a nameless strip it soon started being signed by Mary. Eventually it became highly personalized changing its name to 'Mary go-round'.
Sunday, April 9, 2023
Mary Wynne, an American journalist with a daily column about São Paulo's night-life
Once upon a time there was an American young lady from Texas named Mary Wynne who arrived in São Paulo, Brazil circa 1929, to work as a governess for an American family who had a young daughter to be educated. Miss Wynne was only 18 years of age and we can't say much more about her then.
We only know that Mary eventually met a young Dutch national whose last name was Tadema like the Dutch painter Lawrence Alma-Tadema. They got married and had a baby boy called Klaas who eventually went to school in the USA, while Mary stayed in Brazil.
We can only surmise Mary and her husband had a pretty busy social life going out to restaurants and night clubs around São Paulo very often.