1971 October - 'Love story' / ZéDi

Marcio Greyck, who had been on the road since 1967 (see below), finally makes it to the top of the charts in September 1971, with self-penned 'Impossível acreditar que perdi você' (It's unbelievable to realize I've lost you). Greyck followed it up with similar ballads but none as powerful as this one.

a very young Marcio Greyck in earlier times, 1967. Sétimo Céu magazine.

5 October 1971 - Amiga n. 72 

1. Impossivel acreditar que perdi você - Marcio Greyck (CBS) (4)

2. Oh me oh my - B.J. Thomas (Scepter-Top-Tape)

3. Amada amante - Roberto Carlos (CBS)

4. It's too late - Carole King (Ode-A&M-Odeon)

5. Fire and rain - James Taylor (WB-Philips)

6. Barbarella - Archaeopterix (CID) 

7. If - Bread (Elektra-Philips) 

8. Quem mandou você errar? - Claudia Barroso (Continental)

9. Sweet hitch-hiker - Creedence Clearwater Revival (Liberty-RCA)

10. Independência ou morte - Zedi (Tapecar)

11. Have you ever seen the rain? – Creedence Clearwater Revival (Liberty-RCA)

12. Be my baby - Cissy Houston (Janus-Top-Tape) 

13. Funny funny – The Sweet Set ()

14. Oho oha – Los Angeles (Hispa-Vox-Continental)

15. Rainy days and Mondays - Carpenters (A&M-Odeon)

16. Sticky - Alacran (Epic-CBS)

17. Love story – Andy Williams (CBS)

18. Minha história (Gesubambino)  – Chico Buarque de Hollanda (Elenco-Philips)

19. That’s what I want – Square Set (Epic-CBS)

20. It don’t come easy – Ringo Starr (Apple)

Chico Buarque who had his 'Apesar de você' banned by the Military Junta that governed Brazil came back now with 'Minha história' a translation of Lucio Dalla's 'Gesubambino' (Baby Jesus). The story of a woman who had been seduced by a sailor in a port-town and gives birth to a boy who she calls 'Baby Jesus'.

'Impossível acreditar que perdi você', com Márcio Greyck lidera durante 3 semanas a parada, agora seguida de perto por 'Oh me oh my', com B.J. Thomas, que passou para o 2o. lugar. 'Amada amante' com Roberto Carlos desceu para 3a. colocação. 

Extended-plays (compactos-duplos)

1. Amada amante - Roberto Carlos (CBS) 
2. De tanto amor - Claudette Soares (Philips)
3. Love story - Francis Lai (Paramount-RGE)
4. Ave Maria no morro - Eduardo Araujo (Odeon)
5. Love story - Johnny Mathis (CBS)  

6. Na galha do cajueiro - Wilson Simonal (Odeon)  
7. Friends - Elton John (Paramount-Young-RGE) 
8. Super Erótica - Os Carbonos (Beverly) 
9. I put a spell on you - Creedence Clearwater Revival (Liberty-RCA) 
10. Mar de rosas (Rose garden) - Celly Campello (Continental)

Celly Campello, former Brazilian Queen of Rock returns to the charts after an absence of 9 years singing 'Mar de rosas', a cover of Lynn Anderson's 'Rose garden'. Campello would never catch up with the times anymore. Nine years is an eternity in show business.

Albums (long-plays)

1. As 14 Mais vol. 25 - various artists (CBS)
2. Love story - Johnny Mathis (CBS)
3. Love story sound-track - Francis Lai (Paramount-RGE)
4. Mar de rosas - The Fevers (London)
5. Pendulum - Creedence Clearwater Revival (Liberty-RCA)

6. O cafona (Internacional) - various foreign songs (Sigla-Som-Livre)
7. Salve, salve brasileiro - Eduardo Araujo (Odeon)
8. Clara Nunes (Odeon)
9. Sinfonias - Waldo de los Rios (Hispa-Vox-Continental)
10. Where I'm coming from - Stevie Wonder (Tamla-Tapecar)

5 October 1971 - songs with most air-play on the radio around the country: Radio Tupi de Sao Paulo (Luiz Aguiar); Radio Cultura BH-MG (Geraldo Ferreira); Radio Continental de Recife-PE (Mario Silva); Radio Farroupilha de Porto Alegre (Homero Coimbra); Radio Piratininga de S.Paulo (Sandro Vilar) and Radio Bahia de Salvador (Valdir Serrão). 

1. Amada amante - Roberto Carlos (CBS)
2. Impossivel acreditar que perdi você - Marcio Greyck (CBS)
3. Menina da ladeira - João Só (Odeon)
4. If - Bread (Elektra-Philips)
5. Oh me oh my - B.J. Thomas (Scepter-Top-Tape)

6. Minha história (Gesubambino) - Chico Buarque de Hollanda (Philips)
7. Independência ou morte - Zedi (Tapecar)
8. Here comes that rainy-day feeling again - The Fortunes (Philips)
9. 16 toneladas - Noriel Vilela (Copacabana)
10. It's too late - Carole King (Ode-A&M-Odeon) 

11. O que é que houve? - Gutemberg Guarabira 
12. De tanto amor - Claudette Soares (Philips)
13. Love story - Johnny Mathis (CBS)
14. Salve, salve brasileiro - Eduardo Araujo (Odeon)
15. Ouriço - Wilson Simonal (Odeon) 

12 October 1971 - Amiga n. 73 

1. Impossivel acreditar que perdi você - Marcio Greyck (CBS) (5)
2. Amada amante - Roberto Carlos (CBS) 
3. Oh me oh my - B.J. Thomas (Scepter-Top-Tape)
4. Fire and rain - James Taylor (WB-Philips)
5. It's too late - Carole King (Ode-A&M-Odeon) 

6. If - Bread (Elektra-Philips)
7. Sweet hitch-hiker - Creedence Clearwater Revival (Liberty-RCA)
8. Independência ou morte - Zedi (Tapecar)
9. Barbarella - Archeopterix (Kuckuck-Cid-Discos)
10. Quem mandou você errar? - Claudia de Barros (Continental)

11. Have you ever seen the rain? – Creedence Clearwater Revival (Liberty-RCA)
12. Oho aha - Los Angeles (Hispa-Vox-Continental) 
13. Funny, funny – The Sweet Set

14. Le rois mages - Sheila (Sigla)

15. Minha história (Gesubambino) – Chico Buarque (Elenco-Philips)

16. Rainy days and Mondays - Carpenters (A&M-Odeon) 

17. Acapulco gold – Mason-Dixon (Jubilee-Top Tape)

18. Sticky - Alacran (Epic-CBS)

19. Be my baby – Cissy Houston (Janus-Top Tape)

20. Where do I begin? (Love story) – Andy Williams (CBS)

German band Archaeopterix reach Top 10 with 'Barbarella' recorded originally for Kuckuck; it got to these shores through Red Bird Records (God only knows what that label was) and was pressed in Brazil by Cid Discos.

'Acapulco gold'  by Mason-Dixon and Sheila's 'Le rois mage' played on the sound-track of TV novela 'O Cafona'.

New Records was a new label which was an off-shoot of Beverly Records which in its turn was an off-shoot of Copacabana Discos. Super Erótica was played by rock-band Os Carbonos whose after-production layed a track of heavy-breathing on top of it to give it a sense of fucking-while-you-play.

Extended-plays (compactos-duplos) 

1. Amada amante - Roberto Carlos (CBS)
2. De tanto amor - Claudette Soares (Philips)
3. Love story - Francis Lai (Paramount-RGE)
4. Love story - Johnny Mathis (CBS) 
5. Ave Maria no morro - Eduardo Araujo (Odeon) 

6. Super Erótica - Os Carbonos (New Records-Beverly) 
7. Na galha do cajueiro - Wilson Simonal (Odeon) 
8. Friends - Elton John (Paramount-Young-RGE)
9. The end - Earl Grant (Decca-Chantecler) 
10. I put a spell on you - Creedence Clearwater Revival (Liberty-RCA) 

Albums (long-plays)

1. O cafona (Internacional) - various novela songs (Sigla-Som Livre)
2. As 14 Mais vol. 25 - various Brazilian artists (CBS)
3. Love story - Johnny Mathis (CBS)
4. Love story sound-track - Francis Lai (Paramount-RGE)
5. Pendulum - Creedence Clearwater Revival (Liberty-RCA)

6. Mar de rosas - The Fevers (London)
7. Manna (incluindo 'If' - Bread (Elektra-Philips) 
8. Sinfonias - Waldo de los Rios (Hispa-Vox-Continental)
9. Salve, salve, brasileiro - Eduardo Araujo (Odeon)
10. I put a spell on you - Creedence Clearwater Revival (Liberty-RCA)

'O cafona' (International) was the 1st time TV Globo released an album with only foreign-hits that were incidental music to their tele-novela-dramas; Liberty-RCA releases 'I put a spell on you', Creedence Clearwater Revival's first ever album, originally released in the USA in 1968.

12 October 1971 - songs with most air-play on the radio around the country: Radio Tupi S.Paulo (Batista Linardi); Radio Mineira BH-MG (Marco Aurelio Senra); Radio Metropolis de Porto Alegre (Ivo Gomes); Radio Clube de Recife-PE (Rosa Maria); Radio Universo de Curitiba (Pirajá Ferreira) and Radio Globo do Rio de Janeiro-GB (Mario Luiz). 

1. De tanto amor - Claudette Soares (Philips) 
2. Amada amante - Roberto Carlos (CBS)
3. Oh me oh my - B.J. Thomas (Scepter-Top-Tape)
4. Go away little girl - Donny Osmond (MGM-Philips)
5. De noite na cama - Erasmo Carlos (Philips)

6. Goodbye media man - Tom Fogerty (Liberty-RCA) 
7. Independência ou morte - Zedi (Tapecar)
8. Bangla-desh - George Harrison (Apple-Odeon)
9. Sea cruise - Johnny Rivers (Liberty-RCA)
10. You'll notice me - Terry Winter (New Records-Beverly) 

11. Let it be - The Mohawks   
12. Fire and rain - James Taylor (WB-Philips) 
13. It's too late - Carole King (Ode-A&M-Odeon)
14. Here comes that rainy-day feeling again - The Fortunes (Philips)
15. A voz do povo - Waldik Soriano (Continental)

16. Sweet hitch-hiker - Creedence Clearwater Revival (Liberty-RCA)
17. It don't come easy - Ringo Starr (Apple-Odeon)
18. Another day - Paul McCartney (Apple-Odeon)
19. Sem destino - Antonio Marcos (RCA)
20. Quem mandou você errar? - Claudia Barroso (Continental)   

The Mohawks' reggae version of The Beatles' 'Let it be'; Brazilians loved Creedence Clearwater Revival which was surely the most popular foreign band after The Beatles. When Tom Fogerty left CCR, Brazilians did again what they had done with the Beatles' members individually: they went out and bought Tom's record too.

Erasmo Carlos changed record-label going from RGE to Philips and changed his repertoire as well recording a Caetano Veloso tune called 'De noite na cama' (In bed at night).

'Independência ou morte' (Independence or death) penned by Zédi was presented as São Paulo's Vai-Vai's 'samba-enrêdo' at Carnaval time. Zédi (José Dias) - born in Mogi Mirim-SP on 6 April 1936 - recorded it for Rio's label Tapecar and became a national hit. Zédi went on to record a few albums for Tapecar.

26 October 1971 - Amiga n. 75 

1. Amada amante - Roberto Carlos (CBS) (1) 

2. Oh me oh my - B.J. Thomas (Scepter-Top-Tape) 

3. Impossivel acreditar que perdi você - Marcio Greyck (CBS) 

4. Fire and rain - James Taylor (WB-Philips)

5. Acapulco gold - Mason Dixon (Jubilee-Top-Tape) 

6. Independência ou morte - Zédi (Tapecar)

7. It's too late - Carole King (Ode-A&M-Odeon)

8. Have you ever seen the rain? - Creedence Clearwater Revival (Liberty-RCA) 

9. Co-co - The Sweet (RCA)

10. If - Bread (Elektra-Philips) 

11. Rainy days and Mondays - Carpenters (A&M-Odeon)
12. Sweet hitch-hier - Creedence Clearwater Revival (Liberty-RCA)

13. Oho aha – Los Angeles (Hispa-Vox-Continental)

14. Barbarella – Archaeopterix (Red Bird Records-Cid Discos)

15. Izabela – Renato & seus Blue Caps (CBS)

16. Minha história (Gesubambino) – Chico Buarque (Elenco-Philips)

17. Les rois mages - Sheila (Sigla-Som-Livre)

18. Quem mandou você errar – Cláudia Barroso (Continental)

19. You’ve got a friend – James Taylor (WB-Philips)

20. How can you mend a broken heart? – Bee Gees (Polydor)

Extended-plays (compactos-duplos) 

1. Amada amante - Roberto Carlos (CBS)  
2. Evie - Johnny Mathis (CBS) 
3. Love story - Johnny Mathis (CBS)
4. De tanto amor - Claudette Soares (Philips)
5. Ave Maria no morro - Eduardo Araujo (Odeon)

6. Super Erótica - Os Carbonos (New Records-Beverly)
7. Love story - Francis Lai (Paramount-RGE)
8. The end - Earl Grant (Decca-Chantecler)
9. Quem mandou você errar? - Claudia Barroso (Continental)
10. Friends - Elton John (Paramount-Young-RGE)

Albums (long-plays)

1. Love story - Johnny Mathis (CBS)
2. O cafona (Internacional) - various foreign hits (Sigla-Som-Livre)
3. As 14 Mais vol. 25 - various Brazilian artists (CBS)
4. Salve, salve brasileiro - Eduardo Araujo (Odeon)
5. Mar de rosas - The Fevers (London)

6. Só o amor contrói - Wanderley Cardoso (Copacabana)
7. Love story sound-track - Francis Lai (Paramount-RGE)
8. Pendulum - Creedence Clearwater Revival (Liberty-RCA)
9. Clara Nunes (Odeon)
10. If - Bread (Elektra-Philips)   

'Evie' com Johnny Mathis pulou da 7ª. para a 2ª. colocação. Nos LPs, 'Love story' passa à liderança deslocando 'O cafona' (Internacional).

'Minha doce namorada' a novela that ran from April 1971 up to January 1972 had a Brazilian sound-track which didn't spawn any single. The international album had Terry Winter's 'You'll notice me', Laurent's 'Sing sing Barbara', The Tremelous' 'Hello buddy' and Lobo's 'I'd love you to want me'.

Terry was Tommy Standen, a Brazilian singer-songwriter who had been around since the early 1960s but with no great success. Terry Winter records 'You'll notice me' in English for new label New Records (a Copacabana Discos subsidiary). Terry would go on to the top of the charts in 1972 with 'Summer holiday'. French-Canadian Marc Hamilton charts with 'Comme j'ai toujours envie d'aimer', a Philips record.

26 October 1971 - songs with most air-play on the radio around the country: Radio Tupi de S.Paulo (Ademar Dutra); Radio Difusora de Porto Alegre (Sadi Nunes); Radio Itatiaia BH-MG (Tarciso Rabelo); Radio Cultura de Salvador-BA (Lima Joceval Costa); Radio Tupi do Rio de Janeiro-GB (Paulo Barbosa) and Radio Central Brasil de Goiânia-GO (Jacir Silva).

1. Oh me oh my - B.J. Thomas (Scepter-Top-Tape)

2. Amada amante - Roberto Carlos (CBS)

3. Impossivel acreditar que perdi você - Marcio Greyck (CBS)

4. If - Bread (Elektra-Philips)

5. You'll notice me - Terry Winter (New Records-Beverly)

6. Snow frolic - Francis Lai (Paramount-RGE)

7. Love story - Johnny Mathis (CBS)

8. Comme j'ai toujours envie d'aimer - Marc Hamilton (Philips)

9. 16 toneladas (Sixteen tons) - Noriel Vilela (Copacabana) 

10. Desta vez vou te esquecer - Evaldo Braga (Polydor)

11. Independência ou morte - Zedi (Tapecar)

12. A voz do povo é a voz de Deus - Waldik Soriano (Continental) 

13. Have you ever seen the rain? - Creedence Clearwater Revival (Liberty-RCA) 

14. Sweet hitch-hiker - Creedence Clearwater Revival (Liberty-RCA)

15. I put a spell on you - Creedence Clearwater Revival (Liberty-RCA)

Waldik Soriano's 3rd hit in a row: 'A voz do povo é a voz de Deus' (Vox popoli vox Deus)(Cezar-Cirus); Noriel Vilela's '16 toneladas' is a cover of 'Sixteen tons' recorded by Tennessee Ernie Ford in 1956.

1971 was Claudia Barroso's best year ever.