Beach Samba (CD)

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• Release Date: September 21, 1993
• Label: Verve (USA)
• UPC: 731451980121
• WAPI (Tower ID): 106273938
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #75878 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #1462 in Latin Music (See Top 100 Latin Music Bestsellers)
• #38 in Bossa Nova (See Top 100 Bossa Nova Bestsellers)

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Personnel includes: Astrud Gilberto (vocals); Barry Galbraith, Marcos Valle (guitars); Arnold Eidus, Gene Orloff (violin); Harold Coletta, Richard Dickler (viola); Seymour Barab, Maurice Bialkin (cello); Phil Bodner, Bill Hammond (woodwinds); Bernie Glow, James Nottingham (trumpet); Wayne Andre, Warren Covington (trombone); Ray Alonge, James Buffington (French horn); John Barber (tuba); George Devens (vibraphone); Benny Aronov (piano, harpsichord); Warren Bernhardt (piano); Jule Ruggiro (bass); Grady Tate (drums).

Additional personnel: Walter Wanderley Trio.

Recorded in New York between September 20, 1966 and June 30, 1967. Includes liner notes by Stan Levine and Neil Tesser.

Bonus tracks 13-17 originally released on the Verve LP A CERTAIN SMILE A CERTAIN SADNESS (V6-8673).

Originally released in 1967, Astrud Gilberto's BEACH SAMBA is one of the Brazilian songstress' classic albums. The bossa nova craze--ignited in 1963, by Gilberto herself, with her lovely, artless vocal on Stan Getz's "The Girl from Ipanema"--was winding down. The album sees Gilberto stretching beyond her usual collection of bossa novas and sambas, though the title track and "Nao Bate O Corocao" are two of her best, into relaxed, swinging versions of such pop standards as "Misty Roses" and "My Foolish Heart."

Perhaps the oddest inclusion is a cover of The Lovin' Spoonful's "You Didn't Have To Be So Nice," sung by Gilberto as a duet with her eight-year-old son, which is better than you might expect. Like the album as a whole, it's perfectly charming and delightful. Peculiarly, the CD ends with five tracks from Gilberto's classic 1966 album with the Walter Wanderley Trio, A CERTAIN SMILE, A CERTAIN SADNESS.

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