Sergio Mendes meets The Peas

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Sergio is alive!?

Very interesting version with The Peas...

Please people dont kill me with Bossa Nova songs today..hmmmm...:eek:uch:

:puppy_dog_eyes: Its very painful in the soul and veins to hear it in cloudly almost raining days & not looking and smelling the sea and worse without company to cuddlying...:hug:

About Billy Eckstine's version of Felicidade for sure he is speaking nice portuguese...but the problem is the "ending" pronunciation of words and "breathing" it while singing is a must & plus having an accent from Rio is very exquisite and special to sing with in my personal oppinion ...i do prefer when proffisional singer people sing Bossa in whatever idiom they speak as mother tongues...and put their soul and expression in it...:wink: and the rest of us sing whatever we want it..hehehehe...u have to listen to me singing in english..i do invent lots of words that do not exist for sure.

Thank u for your findings about Sergio, Stronzo - and Naughty thanks u too for adding links that i did not knew with sample of lots songs!!!

After all of that I have the blues...:raincloud: :puppy_dog_eyes: but its friday and i will be ok later if not on saturday for sure!:tongue:
 

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Stronzo said:
I can sense it in that short piece. What I particularly liked about it was the indigenous South American sound to the intro before he started singing ... very reminiscent of Getz's version of "Berimbao" at it's introduction before Astrud sings. Pure pure stuff.



You and I were separated at birth musically. For years I hunted for a haunting theme from the movie Agatha (starring Vanessa Redgrave and Dustin Hoffman) which was, I think, produced in the late 80s. The theme from it; Close Enough for Love was mesmeric. Shirley's version is good but not her best singing.

However, the arranger/producer Johnny Mandel (who's helped Diana Krall with IMO her best work to date) produced Shirley Horn's album Here's to Life which is one of the ONLY recordings I know of another song which brings on that same reaction. And with Mandel's haunting orchestration it's almost other-wordly.

I found it here - it's the title cut and #4. The entire album has that merged sophistication of an America music influenced by the stuff coming out of Brazil in the mid 60s, a dash of the best of Mancini, and a product purely "Mandel" in the making. In a word it's just fucking chic.

Here's the link (again cut #4) to Horn and Mandel's A Time for Love:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000046KM/102-8025279-4834504?v=glance&n=5174http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000046KM/102-8025279-4834504?v=glance&n=5174

Stronzo,

Is a "Time for love" the best song or what? I LOVE that album. I adore "Here's to life" "WHere do you start", "Isnt it a pity" and "A time for love" best. Johnny Mandel is one of my favorite arrangers. I do so miss Shirley Horn's smokey vocals. Her chords were scored with cigarette smoke and Johnny Walker Black which she insisted upon having at her side on the piano. Her phrasing is impeccable. I think she synthsizes her abilities as a pianist into her minimimalist phrasing... I am glad her career outlasted many of her contemporaries. Her voice, as did Peggy Lee's, reminded me of the husky tones of my great aunts.... which by all accounts, I too inherited....
 

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Gisella said:
:eek:

Sergio is alive!?

Very interesting version with The Peas...

Please people dont kill me with Bossa Nova songs today..hmmmm...:eek:uch:

:puppy_dog_eyes: Its very painful in the soul and veins to hear it in cloudly almost raining days & not looking and smelling the sea and worse without company to cuddlying...:hug:

About Billy Eckstine's version of Felicidade for sure he is speaking nice portuguese...but the problem is the "ending" pronunciation of words and "breathing" it while singing is a must & plus having an accent from Rio is very exquisite and special to sing with in my personal oppinion ...i do prefer when proffisional singer people sing Bossa in whatever idiom they speak as mother tongues...and put their soul and expression in it...:wink: and the rest of us sing whatever we want it..hehehehe...u have to listen to me singing in english..i do invent lots of words that do not exist for sure.

Thank u for your findings about Sergio, Stronzo - and Naughty thanks u too for adding links that i did not knew with sample of lots songs!!!

After all of that I have the blues...:raincloud: :puppy_dog_eyes: but its friday and i will be ok later if not on saturday for sure!:tongue:


Gisella,

I am going to have to get you for a vocal coach when singing Bossa Nova. I LOVE IT. I actually went to see Sergio Mendes about ten years ago, I loved listening to the aural comfort food of my childhod, but it pissed me off to see these geriatric men with young nubile vocalists. I know he probably traded them in every decade, but it spoke volumes to me about how women were viewed.

I'm sorry you didnt get to hear the entire Eckstine version of "Felicidade" I know some of his pronunciation had a decidedly American flavor his timber and the color of his vocal are positively stunning in places. "Virile" is the word I would use...
Baby I am sure that Jobim would not want use to "kill you softly with his songs..." but I do love the sound....
 

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Matthew said:
It's to blame? :wink:

I love that song....I swear it was writen just for me.....

"I was at a dance when he caught my eye
Standin' all alone lookin' sad and shy
We began to dance, swaying' to and fro
And soon I knew I'd never let him go"


:smile:
 

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