Dick Farney

Farnésio Dutra e Silva (14 November 1921 – 4 August 1987), better known as Dick Farney, was a Brazilian jazz pianist, composer, and singer who was popular in Brazil from the late 1940s to the mid-1970s and 1980s.

Biography He began playing piano as a child, as his father Eduardo Dutra taught him classical music and his mother taught him how to sing. In 1937, he debuted as a singer on the show Hora Juvenil of Radio Cruzeiro do Sul in Rio de Janeiro, performing the song "Deep Purple" composed by Peter DeRose. Farney was invited by César Ladeira to Radio Mayrink Veiga to host the program Dick Farney, the Voice and Piano. He then formed the group Os Swing Maniacos with his brother Cyll Farney on drums. The band accompanied Edu da Gaita for the recording of "Indian Song" by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. From 1941 to 1944, Farney sang with the orchestra of Carlos Machado at the Casino da Urca when gambling was still allowed in Brazil.

In 1946, he was invited to the United States after meeting the arranger Bill Hitchcock and pianist Eddy Duchin at the Copacabana Palace Hotel. In November 1947, Farney had a Billboard chart hit with the song "I Wish I Didn't Love You So", which reached number 13. In 1947 and 1948, he appeared on many radio shows for NBC, particularly as a singer with The Milton Berle Show. In 1948, he performed at Vogue, a nightclub in Rio de Janeiro. In 1959 he had his own TV program, The Dick Farney Show, which was aired by TV Record Channel 7 in São Paulo. During the following year, he formed Dick Farney and His Orchestra and played at many events. In 1965, he hosted the Dick and Betty Show with Betty Faria on the newly created TV Globo Channel 4, Rio de Janeiro.

Farney was the owner of the nightclubs Farney's and Farney's Inn, both in São Paulo. He formed a trio with Sabá in 1971. From 1973 to 1978, he played piano and sang at the nightclub Chez Régine in Rio.

Discography 1944 - "The Music Stopped" (fox) / "Mairzy doats" (fox-trot) - with the Ferreira Filho Orchestra - Gravadora Continental 1944 - "What's new?" (fox-trot) - crooner do conjunto Milionários 1944 - "San Fernando Valley" / "I love you" 1944 - "I don't want to walk without you" 1945 - "This love of mine" / "The man I love" 1946 - "Copacabana"/ "Barqueiro do rio São Francisco" - with Eduardo Patané 1946 - "Era ela" / "Ela foi embora" 1947 - "Worth Duckin'" (parody of the "Duckworth Chant", on A side of V-Disc 799, with Leroy "Slam" Stewart on bass and scat-singing) 1947 - "Just an Old Love of Mine" (Peggy Lee/Dave Barbour) / "For Once in My Life" (Fisher/Segal) with Paul Baron and his Orchestra 1947 - "Marina" / "Foi e não voltou" 1947 - "A Gal in Calico" / "For sentimental reasons" 1948 - "Ser ou não ser" / "Um cantinho e você" 1948 - "Meu Rio de Janeiro" / "A saudade mata a gente" 1948 - "Esquece" / "Somos dois..." 1949 - "Ponto final" / "Olhos tentadores" 1949 - "Junto de mim" / "Sempre teu" 1950 - "Não tem solução" / "Lembrança do passado - gravadora Sinter" 1951 - "Uma loira" / "Meu erro" 1951 - "Canção do vaqueiro" / "Nick Bar" 1952 - "Mundo distante" / "Não sei a razão" 1952 - "Luar sobre a Guanabara" / "Fim de romance" 1952 - "Sem esse céu" / "Alguém como tu" 1953 - "Perdido de amor" / "Meu sonho" 1953 - "Nova ilusão" / "João Sebastião Bach" 1953 - "April in Paris" / "All the things you are" 1953 - "Speak low" / "You keep coming back like a song" 1954 - "Copacabana" / "My melancholy baby" 1954 - "Tenderly" / "How Soon" - Majestic Records 1954 - "Somebody loves me" / "There's no sweeter word than sweetheart" 1954 - "Marina" / "For once in your life" 1954 - "Grande verdade" / "Você se lembra?" 1954 - "Outra vez" / "Canção do mar" 1954 - "Tereza da praia" / "Casinha pequenina" - with Lúcio Alves 1954 - Música romântica com Dick Farney 1954 - Sinfonia do Rio de Janeiro 1955 - A saudade mata a gente 1955 - "Foi você" / "Tudo isto é amor" 1955 - Dick Farney e seu Quinteto 1955 - "Bem querer" / "Sem amor nada se tem" 1955 - Dick Farney on Broadway 1956 - Jingle bells/White Christmas/Feliz Natal 1956 - Jazz Festival 1956 - Jazz after midnight 1956 - Meia-noite em Copacabana com Dick Farney 1956 - Dick Farney Trio 1957 - "Un argentino en Brasil" / "Nem fala meu nome" 1957 - "O ranchinho e você" / "Só eu sei" 1957 - "Toada de amor" / "O luar e eu..." 1959 - "Este seu olhar" / "Se é por falta de adeus" 1959 - "Esquecendo você" / "Amor sem adeus" 1959 - Atendendo a pedidos 1960 - Dick Farney em canções para a noite de meu bem 1960 - Dick Farney e seu jazz moderno no auditório de O Globo 1960 - Dick Farney no Waldorf 1961 - "Somos dois" / "Uma loura" 1961 - Dick Farney Jazz 1961 - Dick Farney Show 1961 - Jam Session 1962 - Dick Farney apresenta sua orquestra no auditório de O Globo - featuring Leny Andrade 1965 - Meia-noite em Copacabana 1967 - Dick Farney, piano e Orquestra Gaya 1972 - Penumbra e romance 1973 - Dick Farney 1973 - Concerto de Jazz ao vivo 1974 - Dick Farney e você 1974 - Um piano ao cair da tarde 1975 - Um piano ao cair da tarde II 1976 - Dick Farney 1976 - Tudo isso é amor - with Claudette Soares 1977 - Cinco anos de jazz 1978 - Dick Farney 1978 - Tudo isso é amor II 1979 - Dick Farney: o cantor, o pianista, o diretor de orquestra - série Retrospecto - gravadora RGE 1981 - Noite 1983 - Feliz de amor 1985 - Momentos 1987 - Dick Farney "ao vivo" (Arte do espetáculo)