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 lyrics by Dolores Duran. English lyrics were later added by Ray Gilbert.

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?'"^[1]

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.^[2]

Recorded versions

• Sylvia Telles - Carícia (1957)^[2]
• Dolores Duran - Dolores Duran Canta Para Você Dançar... (1957)^[2]
• 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 (rec. 1987, released 1997)
• 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)
• 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)

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