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corcavado

Só Danço Samba

Vivo Sonhando a close 2nd

Crap: I voted for "Corcovado" before remembering how much I like the sax solo on "So Danco Samba"

Corcovado but I could easily have given it to the title track or So Danco Samba

Corcovado. 1st couple lines set the mood for all of bossa nova.

Not that this thread needs another "me too!" voice, but "Corcovado" is one of the most perfect songs ever. My mom isn't too familiar with Brazilian music, but she loved this when I played it for her - she said, "her voice is so pretty." I'm afraid that may have been due to some perceived similarity to Joan Baez, and personally, I think it's his voice that really makes it....I haven't been able to find too many other songs of his that really bring out the gentle beauty in his voice the way this one does. I will say that "Para Machucar Meu Coração" is definitely my #2 pic from this album, and "Caminhos Cruzados" is one other song of his that consistently gets me in that weepy kind of mood. I don't doubt that there's another thread entirely devoted to it, but I don't really feel like searching for it and any other suggestions would be appreciated.

no Chega De Suadade ?

i vote Desafinado

"Só Danço Samba"

"Chega de Saudade" was not on this record, no.

which one of these was the pharcyde joint

wasn't on this album

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U30vT17TtHw

sorry, didn't know you were just doin this album...

dumb mistake

Speaking of Pharcyde/Runnin' and Bossa samples, Dilla also sampled Walter Wanderly's Summer Samba for De La's Supa MC's

Pharcyde sample was "One Note Samba" which is on the live album, I think

nah, it was suadade (the link i posted)

agh you are right. man I know SOMEONE sampled One Note Samba, I'm blankin on what it is thoug... hmmmm

Stereolab sampled the Switched On Bossa Nova version of One Note Samba.

Gene Lees wrote the English lyrics for "Corcovado"? Who knew?

Who reads liner notes?

"Desafinado", although I prefer the instrumental version on "Jazz Samba"

Let us now commence some much-broader category that will allow me to vote for Tom e Elis "Aguas de Marco"

nabisco, you never answered my long-ago-asked-and-now-unsearchable question about the chord changes of that song, although upstream on the same unfindable thread I seem to remember you waxing nabiscoesque about the changes to "The Long And Winding Road."

Which one is the one that sounds like mario kart?

Let us now commence some much-broader category that will allow me to vote for Tom e Elis "Aguas de Marco"

-- nabisco, Friday, August 15, 2008 11:13 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

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"Vivo Sonhando" (Jobim) – 3:04 0

ppssshhhhhhh

RIP Dorival Caymmi.

The Girl from Ipanema came up on a shuffle today and made me feel good.

agh you are right. man I know SOMEONE sampled One Note Samba, I'm blankin on what it is thoug... hmmmm

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, August 15, 2008 1:36 PM (7 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Stereolab sampled the Switched On Bossa Nova version of One Note Samba.

― Steve Shasta, Friday, August 15, 2008 1:47 PM (7 years ago)

Stereolab sampled Perrey and Kingsley's One Note Samba at the very end of Peng's "I'm Going Out Of My Way".

Stereolab COVERED "one note samba" unless I'm misunderstanding those posts

A very nice retrospective review by Andy Beta:

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/stan-getz-joao-gilberto-getz-gilberto

I especially enjoyed his tribute to "Desafinado":

While it had instantly entered the jazz canon and had been recorded by Gilberto, “Desafinado” gets a definitive reading here, with the attuned ears of producer Creed Taylor and engineer Phil Ramone capturing its indelible essence. Jobim penned the song with Newton Mendonça as a cheeky homage to all the tin-eared samba singers they had heard over the years: “If you tell me l’m out of tune, my love/You must know that causes me immense pain,” states its purpose clearly in the opening couplet.

Getz’s Grammy-winning version of it was not quite right, so the Getz/Gilberto version detunes it properly. The melody and harmony are in E-flat major, but the end of verse lines lie outside of that scale, the harmony sliding down in half steps that create a subtle dissonance and ending in a F7 b5. Gilberto’s delivery is smooth enough that only upon close listening do his vowels clang and feel off. (You can hear a clearer example of this approach in English, as on this version of Gershwin’s “’S Wonderful,” the held vowels sour and then subtly sweeten as the harmony finally aligns, like a foul ball just curling fair.) Easy as it sounds, in practice “Desafinado” is one of the trickiest songs of the 20th century, with no verse-chorus structure, running 74 measures long, featuring over 20 chords in the harmony, and full of subtle shifts that slide underfoot like the white sands of Ipanema Beach, leaving even the most sure-footed singer and player wobbling and off-balance.