Don't Ever Go Away (Por Causa de Você)

"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
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References
  1. "Silvia Telles - Amor Em Hi-Fi". Discogs.com. Retrieved March 23, 2019.
  2. Castro, Ruy, Bossa nova: the story of the Brazilian music that seduced the world, A Cappella Books, Chicago, IL, 2000. ISBN 9781556524097>
  3. Second Hand Songs Por Causa de Você
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