O canal no YouTube do programa do apresentador norte-americano Ed Sullivan (1901-1974) já tinha uma vasta mina de ouro em seu acervo, mas a quarentena vem acelerando este processo – e há alguns dias eles começaram a subir umas pérolas daquelas: os Temptations azeitadíssimos, as Supremes maravilhosas, Marvin Gaye cantando como nunca, Beach Boys mandando “Good Vibrations” (a voz do Carl!), Gladys Knight (que voz!) & The Pips cantando num hospital, os Jackson 5 mandando ver em “Stand!”, Neil Diamond cantando seu clássico “Sweet Caroline”, Smokey Robinson cantando “Yesterday”…

…e pelo visto tem muito mais vindo aí…

Dá pra dividir a carreira de Michael Jackson em duas fases, embora ela não seja tão facilmente separada pela assinatura do autor. A fronteira que determino é a da mudança de timbre de sua voz: enquanto ainda tinha voz fina de criança, ele já havia feito um senhor estrago na história do pop, mas nada se compara a quando ele engrossa – um pouco – a voz e começa a tomar as rédeas da carreira. Entre o Jackson 5, os Jacksons e sua carreira solo, no entanto, podemos encontrar ambas vozes nas três formas que Michael Jackson já se apresentou, por isso dedico esse Vida Fodona às canções que Michael cantava com voz de guri, antes de assumir a sensualidade como ingrediente crucial e a futura androginia robótica. É mais ou menos como separar os Beatles entre antes e depois dos quatros terem topado usar drogas para ampliar sua criatividade. Vamos aos anos de beatlemania de Michael Jackson, portanto.

Michael Jackson – “Ben”
Jackson 5 – “Never Can Say Goodbye”
Michael Jackson – “Ain’t No Sunshine”
Michael Jackson – “With a Child’s Heart”
Jackson 5 – “I’ll Be There”
Jackson 5 – “Touch”
Jackson 5 – “Zip-A-Dee Doo-Dah”
Jackson 5 – “I Want You Back”
Jackson 5 – “The Young Folks”
Jackson 5 – “Chained”
Jackson 5 – “The Boogie Man”
Michael Jackson – “Love Is Here And Now You’re Gone”
Jackson 5 – “Ready or Not Here I Come”
Jackson 5 – “Big Boy”
Jackson 5 – “Soul Jerk”
Jackson 5 – “Track of my Tears”
Jackson 5 – “My Girl”
Jackson 5 – “The Love You Save”
Jackson 5 – “Children of the Light”
Michael Jackson – “The Greatest Show on Earth”
Jackson 5 – “Stand!”
Michael Jackson – “Dancing Machine”

“I’ll Be There”

No programa de hoje temos a vocalista do Yeah Yeah Yeahs virando o Mick Jagger (enquanto seu hit torna-se folk e inofensivo), a faixa que batiza o disco do ano passado de uma das melhores bandas instrumentais do Brasil, uma das músicas do Sensational Fix, novas do MSTRKRFT, Rômulo Fróes e Mulatu Astatke, Erasmo vintage, Hot Chip com Robert Wyatt, Arnaldo ao vivo, Booker T. tocando Beatles, Wilco tocando Costello, tributo a Lux Interior, Spoon, Momo, Of Montreal e Paul McCartney.

Arnaldo Baptista & Patrulha do Espaço – “Feel in Love One Day”
Rogue Wave – “Maps”
Paul McCartney – “Check My Machine”
N.A.S.A. (com Karen O, Fatlip e Ol’ Dirty Bastard) – “Strange Enough”
MSTRKRFT (com Lil Mo) – “It Ain’t Love”
Smokey Robinson & the Miracles – “Tears of a Clown (Action Jackson Remix)”
Booket T. & the MG’s – “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)”
Mulatu & The Heliocentrics – “Chinese New Year”
Sonic Youth – “Rats”
Of Montreal – “And I’ve Seen a Bloody Shadow”
Pata de Elefante – “Um Olho no Fósforo, Outro na Fagulha”
Wilco – “Peace, Love and Understanding”
Rafael Castro e os Monumentais – “TV”
Momo – “Fin”
Rômulo Fróes – “A Anti-Musa”
Hot Chip com Robert Wyatt – “We’re Looking for a Lot of Love (Remixed by Geese)”
Erasmo Carlos – “Grilos”
Spoon – “The Way We Get By”
Cramps – “Sunglasses After Dark”

Vambora?

Hoje também é dia de capricorniano ilustre: quem completa meio século de vida é ninguém menos que a Motown e eu vou passar a semana linkando vídeos da gravadora que apresentou o soul ao mundo em escala industrial. Começando com o primeiro hit:

“Shop Around”
(William “Smokey” Robinson & Berry Gordy)

When I became of age my mother called me to her side
She said ‘son you’re growing up now, pretty soon
You’ll take a bride’…

[Sings:]
And then she said…
‘Just because you’ve become a young man now
(Man, now)
There’s still some things that you don’t understand now
(Son, now)
Before you ask some girl for her hand now
(My son)
Keep your freedom for as long as you can now’

My mama told me…’you better shop around’
(Shop, shop around) a-whoa-yeah
You better (uh-huh) shop around!
(Shop, shop around)
Uh-uh-uh

‘There’s some things that I want you to know now
(Uh-huh-…ooo)
A just as sure as the winds gonna blow now
(Uh-huh-…ooo)
The women come and the women gonna go now
(Uh-huh…ooo)
Before you tell ‘em that you love ‘em so now
My mama told me…’you better shop around’
(Shop, shop around) whoa-yeah
You better (uh-huh) shop around
(Shop, shop around)

‘A-gotta get yourself a bargain son
Don’t be sold on the very first one
A-pretty girls come a dime a dozen
A-try to find one who’s gonna give ya true lovin’
(Uh-huh…ooo)
‘Before you take a girl and say I do now
A make sure she’s in love with-a you now’
My mama told me
(You better shop around)

Oh-hey-hey-hey
(ooooooh)
‘Try to get yourself a bargain son
Don’t be sold on the very first one!
(First one, first one)
A pretty girls come a dime a dozen
A try to find one who’s gonna give ya true lovin’
(Uh-huh…ooo)
Before you take a girl and say ‘I do’ now
Make sure she’s in love with a-you now
Make sure that her love is true now
I’d hate to see you feelin’ sad and blue now’
My Mama told me
‘You better shop around’
(Shop, shop around)
(Uh-huh ‘don’t let the first one get you’)
(Shop, shop around)
On no,cuz I don’t wanna see ya ‘wicher’
(Uh-huh shop, shop around)
Uh-huh ‘before you let ‘em hold you tight’
(Shop, shop around)
A-yeah-yeah (shop around)
‘Make sure shes alright’
(Uh-huh, shop, shop around)
‘Uh-huh before you let ‘em take your hand my son’
(Uh-huh, shop, shop around)
‘Understand my son’
(Uh-huh, shop, shop around)
‘Be a man my son’
(Uh-huh, shop, shop around)
‘I know you can my son’
(Uh-huh, shop, shop around)
I love it
(Uh-huh shop, shop around)
A shop around…