Sérgio Mendes

Let's have some music to go with it.

Well, Sergio Mendes, gotta be, isn't it?

I mean, it's a really easy choice.

You know, again, because of the 98 World Cup Nike advert, which is the first time really, actually, I heard the tune.

And the music's sensational.

I mean, just...

It's not actually the Sergio Mendes original.

I think it was re-recorded for the advert.

But I think with...

A four-piece, double-tracking the vocals to get that sort of mellow kind of Brazil 66, Sergio Mendes kind of thing, which it sort of needed.

And I don't think it was a song that I shouldn't have selected for this band because it didn't really fit Yui's kind of groove.

And I think after I did a really good job of picking songs and writing songs that I thought, oh, this is going to be great with Huey for the previous record.

It was the best.

It was Sergio Mendes' drums for the whole life, you know.

And from this, we connect with more musicians.

You're going to ask me about Brazilian time later on.

so so Okay.

Here's Louis Armstrong with Bill Bailey, Ben Webster and Johnny Hodges' I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me, that's from 1960, Duke Ellington, The Waltz You Saved For Me, Joe Morello from his self-titled release, we'll hear Shorten and Bread from 1961, and Cannonball Adderley with Clouds, featuring Sergio Mendez from his Bossa Nova album, 1962. piano plays

Won't you come home, Bill Bailey? Won't you come home? I'm feeling all alone.

I'll do the cooking, honey, so you can get that scoff.

So looking forward to checking out and seeing what that's all about.

And then for my last highlight and song I'd like to feature, this is one that Taylor, when we arrived there, amidst many of our conversations, we were having Lonnie Hall came up, who, of course, you, several years ago now, did our Sergio Mendez Brazil 66 episode with us, and she was in that group.

Mm-hmm.

and you I think brought up her album Sundown Lady and then sure enough you found it a copy at Harvey's and you already have one so you were kind enough to hand it to me and I put it on the turntable there it was very quiet when we got to Harvey's and I remember that there's a turntable connected to speakers that if you're tall enough you can reach over and put a record on there so I was playing this and uh It starts off with a couple Elton John covers, which they sound beautiful with her singing them.

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So we just got into the first selections of Brazilian music, and we ended up with If You Really Love Me, this is Vantage 74, Sergio Mendes, and we had Love City from Sergio Mendes and the new Brazil 77.

Sergio Mendes, 1977, RCA records, 100 years of RCA, this was all produced and released in Brazil by Arnaldo de Solteiro.

This masquerade, now and then, this rain shoe of the Carpenters.

Leon Russell tune, Bossa Nova, 1973.

Still going.

Lead singer of Sergio Mendes in Brazil, 66.

And...

As you can hear on the episode we did on the album Stillness from 1970, she departed about halfway through the recording of that album and then did her debut solo album, Suntown Lady, in 72.