"Don't Ever Go Away (Por Causa de Você)" aka "Por Causa de Você (Because of You)" is a bossa nova song composed in 1957 by Antônio Carlos Jobim, with original lyrics by Dolores Duran. English lyrics were later added by Ray Gilbert. A version in French was written by Serge Rohde.[1]
Bossa nova historian Ruy Castro relates a story of how Jobim and Duran wrote the song: "The two of them had met by chance at Rádio Nacional, and Jobim had shown her the song, which didn't yet have any lyrics--Vinícius de Moraes was supposed to be taking care of that. When Dolores heard the music, she took her eyebrow pencil out of her pocket, rapidly scribbled a few lines on a paper napkin, and showed them to Jobim. He liked them and sighed: 'What do you think this music would sound like with Sinatra?'"[2]
As it turned out, Frank Sinatra recorded the song with Jobim in 1969, under the title "Don't Ever Go Away (Por Causa de Você), which appeared on his album Sinatra & Company (1971).
The first recording of the song was in 1957 by Sylvia Telles.[3] In 1960, she recorded the first version in French as "Gardez Moi Pour Toujours."[1]
Recorded versions
edit- Sylvia Telles - Carícia (1957)[3] and Amor em Hi-Fi (1960)
- Dolores Duran - Dolores Duran Canta Para Você Dançar... (1957)[3]
- Maysa - Convite para ouvir Maysa n. 2 (1958)
- Agostinho dos Santos - Antonio Carlos Jobim e Fernando Cesar na voz de Agostinho dos Santos (1958)
- Antônio Carlos Jobim - A Certain Mr. Jobim (1967) and Inédito (1987)
- Frank Sinatra & Antônio Carlos Jobim - Sinatra & Company (rec. 1969, released 1971)
- Baden Powell - Solitude on Guitar (1971)
- Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Abraça Jobim (1981) - released on the original LP but left off the 1991 CD version
- Paulinho Nogueira - Tom Jobim – Retrospectiva (1981)
- Eliane Elias - Eliane Elias Plays Jobim (1990) - instrumental and vocal versions
- Paul Winter with Oscar Castro-Neves - Brazilian Days (1998)
- Gal Costa - Gal Costa Canta Tom Jobim Ao Vivo (1999)
- Rosa Passos & Ron Carter - Entre Amigos (2003)
- Vanessa da Mata - Vanessa da Mata Canta Tom Jobim (2013)
- Carminho - Carminho Canta Tom Jobim (2016)
References
edit- ^ a b "Silvia Telles - Amor Em Hi-Fi". Discogs.com. Retrieved March 23, 2019.
- ^ Castro, Ruy, Bossa nova: the story of the Brazilian music that seduced the world, A Cappella Books, Chicago, IL, 2000. ISBN 9781556524097>
- ^ a b c Second Hand Songs Por Causa de Você