Bossa Nova Music

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I like Manha De Carnaval so much that I listened to Domingo, Nana Mouskouri, Carly Simon and Luis Miguel's versions borrowed from the libraries. I like the original song in track 6 by Luiz Bonfa. Track 8 guitar playing is also beautiful. Track 11 female vocal is wonderful, spontaneous and second to none. The sound quality is excellent.

It's wonderful to have a new recording of the sound track from the movie Black Orpheus. The movie was one of my favorites but I played my old record of the sound track so many times (and put it through so many moves) it was scratched and no longer enjoyable to listen to. Now everytime I listen to my CD version I am transported to the time and space of the movie and the time and space of the early sixties when I first heard it. The little bonus addition at the end of the CD is fun too.

Considerada la primera película en la que se da a conocer el bosanova, "Orfeo Negro" incluye una serie de fabulosas canciones como "A felicidade", "A nosso amor" y "manha de carnaval". Al parecer los temas fueron tomados de la película, razón por la cual el audio no es el mejor. Este es un disco para coleccionistas entusiastas del bosanova pero no espere variedad ni calidad de audio. Como punto negativo encuentro que en el CD no incluyeron los nombres de los intérpretes de cada canción.

Save your money. I love the movie very much, and to watch it and to listen it is an experience like none other. However, if you look for the music from this movie, do not look here. This is just the movie, except without video. I have great respect for Bonfa and Jobim's work on this music, but they do not get glorified truly since the tracks change so quickly and the movie sounds play such a large role in the soundtrack cd. Listen to Trio da Paz and their Black Orpheus album and see how it compares, and even though it is not the original Jobim or Bonfa, it pays more homage to them than this original soundtrack. Verve took the wrong route with this one. Yes the music is landmark in evolving Samba/Bossa Nova, but this cd does not depict truly how wonderful the music is.

Brand new and shipped fast. Great merchant

I like Manha De Carnaval so much that I listened to Domingo, Nana Mouskouri, Carly Simon and Luis Miguel's versions borrowed from the libraries. I like the original song in track 6 by Luiz Bonfa. Track 8 guitar playing is also beautiful. Track 11 female vocal is wonderful, spontaneous and second to none. The sound quality is excellent.

It's wonderful to have a new recording of the sound track from the movie Black Orpheus. The movie was one of my favorites but I played my old record of the sound track so many times (and put it through so many moves) it was scratched and no longer enjoyable to listen to. Now everytime I listen to my CD version I am transported to the time and space of the movie and the time and space of the early sixties when I first heard it. The little bonus addition at the end of the CD is fun too.

Considerada la primera película en la que se da a conocer el bosanova, "Orfeo Negro" incluye una serie de fabulosas canciones como "A felicidade", "A nosso amor" y "manha de carnaval". Al parecer los temas fueron tomados de la película, razón por la cual el audio no es el mejor. Este es un disco para coleccionistas entusiastas del bosanova pero no espere variedad ni calidad de audio. Como punto negativo encuentro que en el CD no incluyeron los nombres de los intérpretes de cada canción.

Save your money. I love the movie very much, and to watch it and to listen it is an experience like none other. However, if you look for the music from this movie, do not look here. This is just the movie, except without video. I have great respect for Bonfa and Jobim's work on this music, but they do not get glorified truly since the tracks change so quickly and the movie sounds play such a large role in the soundtrack cd. Listen to Trio da Paz and their Black Orpheus album and see how it compares, and even though it is not the original Jobim or Bonfa, it pays more homage to them than this original soundtrack. Verve took the wrong route with this one. Yes the music is landmark in evolving Samba/Bossa Nova, but this cd does not depict truly how wonderful the music is.

During this period of pop music, Eydie Gorme was the most versatile of pop singers. Her Columbia period & that just before were all genre-themed albums. Her 1st on Columbia, BLAME IT ON THE BOSSA NOVA, was her only jazz venture. The title tune which was her biggest comemrcial hit, 11 other jazz styled tracks , & 2 bonus Bossa Nova tracks compose this cd.. That title tune was fun, arty & as nuanced & off keyed as any Peggy Lee. Whatever the instrument is in the song's middle, it works just fine! The cd sound, which makes E.G.'s voice sound richer, is better than the lp sound. I can't think of any other singer who did more to make her voice so different to fit the respective material. I stated that Jo Stafford was the most verstatile of singers. Well, then, Eydie Gorme took ovet the honor followed by Linda Ronstadt. With today's music, who knows & who cares! Still, Linda did not change her voice as much as she did genres; Eydie & Jo could make their voices sound different. During Eydie's period, her big selling Blame It On Bossa Nova & Grammy winning If He Walked Into My Life were the farthest vocal stretch in pop music. In the BLAME IT ON BOSSA NOVA opener, One Not Samba, Gorme strays very far from that note. Paradoxically, she sings every note on key. Eydie starts & ends with that glorious high note & scats so well Ella must have cringed! In Dansero, Eydie sings the same line off & on key to give stylistic & artistic effects to the same feeling of love. The cross overs to jazz (Melodie D' Amour, The Sweetest Sounds, Almost Like In Being In love, The Coffee Song, Moon River, & I Remember You ) artfully equal the stritly jazz ones, (Desfinado, The Message, The Gift, Dansero, & One Nore Samba) while the big hit nicely supports those "better songs". Eydie was quite the revealation. She was jovial, dramatic, wide-ranging & vibrant. Most jazz singers have to stretch their voices to do this materail; but on those other 11 & the 2 bouus songs, she was straight on key, never flinching. She was & is what other singsers could never be: EYDIE GORME! PS. Only Eydie could make Moon River really swing. It's that's song definitive version because everyone else did it as a ballad.

I am Brazilian and I have been a big fan of Ms. Gorme for her extraordinary voice and feeling when singing in her native language and in Spanish. So I should be specially proud about this album but ... there's something wrong here!

This is one her albums with Bossa Nova ensemble but arrangements do not hip as they should. Unfortunately, Brazilian Music is not to be approached as a Latin sound with 'maraccas' and all that percussion typical from Cuba.

Despite this big discomfort, you'll find great renditions of 'Dansero', 'The Sweetest Sounds', 'Almost Like Being in Love' and the Brazilian samba 'The Message'.

What a shame that "Blame It On the Bossa Nova" is not a greatest hits album! And, yes, what a shame that her other CD which appears to be a greatest hits package - Golden Hits - is not a definitive retrospective of her hits either! What's going on? Almost everyone of her CDs contains only a few tracks. When will we get a chance to hear "Don't try to Fight It Baby" or "I Want You To meet My Baby"? Please give us a CD or double CD packed with this wonderful woman's hits!

Sob! Am I really the only one who wants Eydie Gorme on CD? NO! There's lots of us out there - all over the globe. Blame It On The Bossa Nova? It's class pop music from one of America's classiest popular vocalists. And is this little bit of heaven made readily available to a wide range of music fans? NO! You rotters...
P.S. If any record company exec's get the message - please could you get together Eydie's other great pop hits from 1963, the lovely Everybody Go Home, the super Don't Fight It and the smoochy I Wanna Stay Here.
Other record companies do it for other stars of that era (Bobby Vee, Nat 'King' Cole et al) why can't you?

Eydie Gorme is a very under-rated singer. As a vocalist she is just stunning (what a set of lungs! and she has a range to die for!). Her voice is also one of the most delightful I've heard. I'm 19, and by no means an avid fan of Eydie's entire career as some reviewers of her CD's seem to be, however, I LOVE this album. The Bossa Nova was an amazingly fun and exciting style and these songs are just swinging, to coin the phrase - so its no wonder this album was one of her most succesful. This newly remastered copy brings the good times swinging into the new millenium with wonderful sound quality.
However the highlight for me is still Blame It On The Bossa Nova - my all time favorite song!!!
That song in itself sold the album to me, but to my joy...and amazment - the rest is superb too!
Way to go, Eydie!

I have loved Eydie Gorme's singing ever since i first heard her on the radio back in the sixties on a song called, "Blame It On The Bossa Nova"! I still love the song . . . i still find myself singing that song . . . and i still listen to the recording of that song by "the voice": Ms Eydie Gorme! (As you listen to her rfecording of this song you can "hear" her smiling . . .and she makes you smile along too!)

THe original LP was recorded at the beginning of the "Bossa Nova" craze . . and while the 'fad" may have ebbed, the style and the music has not faded by any means. . . and Eydie's recordings hold up as "classics" . . and sound as vibrant and relevant to today's musical ear as they did when she first laid these tracks down. (She has included two additional bonus tracks on this "remastered cd" - songs she recorded with 'Louis Bonfa' the brazilian composer/musician.)

One of my own personal favorites on the album is Eydie's take on "Melodie D'Amour! I love the song . . . and I love Eydie's presentation of it.

Another 'classic favorite' of mine found its way into her "bossa nova" styling: "Moon River" from the "Breakfast At Tiffany's" motion picture.

Every track is a most pleasant experience to listen to again and again . . . I'll never be 15 years old again hearing "Blame It On The Bossa Nova" for the first time on the radio . . . but I can relive that time again and again just by putting this cd into the player.

Thank you Ms Eydie Gorme for all of the great music you have gifted us with through the years . . . and particularly thank you for the "smile" that is "Blame It on The Bossa Nova"! (yeah yeah . . . the bossa nova . . no no . . . the bossa nova . . . the dance of love . . . )

Steve Conte has done work with many famous musicians and has even sung for the popular anime composer, Yoko Kanno, doing work for Wolf's Rain and Cowboy Bebop. He has an amazing voice. I love his music and it's well worth your money.

I've had the pleasure of seeing Brian Nova perform live, what a showman! His guitar playing is incredible, and he has a vocal style that is reminisent of Frank Sinatra. After listening to my copy of Blue and Bossa Nova I must say that I was not dissapointed. The lightning fast guitar licks are tastefully dispersed throughout fine melodic improvisation, and the remainder of the quartet,( Buddy Catlett, Larry fuller, Greg Williamson), are rock solid, locking into groove after groove. I like to put this on, put my feet up and enjoy a glass of Merlot after a hard days work. This is a c.d. to be 'savored'.