Put me in your list !...... First time I heard Sergio Mendes it was in 1966 I was a young 16 year old MEXICAN guy living in the most pretty city of Mexico GUADALAJARA recently I turn 74 and still I'm a huge fan of Sergio Mendes music....... Saludos y Buena Suerte
These girls sang as one. Musical perfection. Musical genius, is the sound of Sergio Mendez and Brazil ‘66. Sergio, like Stevie, was born with the happiness gene. Just an amazing assemblage of artists.
WOW! NO STAGE MICS! NO SOUND-MAN! THAT GORGEOUS, PERFECT BLAND IS ALL THEM. ONLY MICROPHONES SEEM TO BE THE ONES MAKING THE RECORDING. YOU CAN HEAR THE NATURAL REVERB OF THE ROOM!!!!!! PRICELESS. AMAZINGLY FINE MUSICIANSHIP!!!! VERY RARE TO HEAR SUCH A PUBLIC PERFORMANCE, EVEN THEN.
I’m 73. Saw them live in the 60’s as a “opening act” with Herb Alpert. Never saw anything to top that evening. That sound. The understated power of their music has no equal. Check out any of their other music. You will be amazed. Chrystal Illusions.
Did they top Alpert? I saw Journey and the opening band, Pat Travers blew them away and I am sure there are many other instances if people want to share?
Aside from the sultry voices, let's give huge credit to Sergio Mendes for being such a tremendous arranger. He puts his own unique touch on iconic songs that are already familiar to millions. Big changes, too. Very brave to even make such an attempt yet he does it again and again. Changed the whole time signatures of both Fool On The Hill and Scarborough Fair. Brilliant stuff. It would be an insult to call any of these efforts 'covers'. Over 50 years later and these songs stand the test of time like few others.
SERGIO MENDES & BRAZIL 66.....WERE SO AHEAD OF THEIR TIME ...PEOPLE HAD REALLY NO IDEA HOW MIND BLOWING , SHARP DRESSED , STRAIGHT RAZOR SHARP.....COOL COOL COOL COOL AND SUPER COOL THEY WERE AND STILL ARE.....I AM IN LOVE WITH LANI HALL AND JANIS HANZEN !!!!!!!!
This was one of my favorite renditions of this classic song!. I love the fact that these two beautiful girls had no tattoos, no autotune, no gymnastics! Just plain and simple talent!
Lani Hall...Ay caramba! I was fortunate to grow up with this music in our household. This era and this music is what I listen most today. Sergio Mendes,Herb Alpert, Burt Bacharach,Stan Getz, Vince Guaraldi...as 10 year old I loved Bossa Nova and all kinds of Jazz. In my teens there was nothing sexier than a female Jazz singer...reckon i still feel the same. None of my friends liked this music they thought I was weird for liking it.
anyone under quarantine listening to this? im into female vocal jazz (especially nina simone) and bossa nova - old school compositions per se. at 21 i feel so aloof from the gen z but whenever i watch a treasured live clip like this makes my heart full. i feel validated that an old soul like me is accepted and embraced. i cri bec of joy, so much feels
Amazing how two such great singers sound like one. And amazing as always how Lani has the most masterful, pure and powerful feminine voice imaginable. Truly the classic high water mark against which all other female singers must be judged.
This was the studio version, and Lani Hall did sing 100% of the vocals. They did some studio work and double tracked her vocals so it sounds like there are two people singing, but it's really just two tracks of Lani. Sorry to ruin the myth! I'm sure Janis was a good singer, and she probably kicked butt in concerts when they did need both voices live.
This music...timeless...and the performers...SO GOOD...they are, REALLY SOMETHING...so something, that nowadays, we don't have this kind of music...nor this kind of performances...
Qui no recorda Sergio Mendez. Sergio Mendez va crear un so dintre la música. Grande! Arreclos i composicions inconfundibles. Vaig tingué la sort de dedicar-me a la música durant 17 anys. Tinc molta gent per recordar. Ells són uns d'aquests.
it bring back childhood memories! This music makes me happy to be healthy and still kicking. great music to watch in unprecedented time. Makes me very happy!
EU ESCUTO O MAGNÍFICO SERGIO MENDES HÁ ANOS E ESSA MUSICA ESTÁ CRAVADA NO MEU CORAÇÃO. HOJE DESCOBRI QUE MARAVILHOSA LANI HALL É ESPOSA DO INCRÍVEL HERP ALBERT. QUE TALENTO, MINHA GENTE!
@jamesmegill My dad was a huge B66 fan in the sixties and had their albums always playing. I had a huge crush on Lani Hall and here fifty years later I can see why!
I know I heard this version before and my mother had Sergio Mendez album she'd play, and Herb Alpert, a couple of his albums, but I didn't hear this that way I don't think. In the US was this also played on radio stations. So great to see them singing this live! I like live performances and so great just five of them create such beautiful songs! I like their unique vocalizations too, like they do in Jazz, and also the Bossa Nova, Samba, kind of beats. Brazil and south America has contributed such unique music to the world!
Farewell and job superbly done, Sergio Mendez. Along with Herb Alpert and Burt Bacharach, your brilliance makes up what I like to refer to as the 60s 'musical TRIFECTA.' Oh how we need your smooth, sophisticated, bosa-nova interpretations of catchy melodies more NOW than ever -- particularly when acknowledging the cultural wasteland in which we presently find ourselves. And one more thing: SO WISH dresses were STILL that short.
Lani Hall was one of the early vocalist of SM & Brazil '66. They had a couple of concerts here in the Philippines at the Araneta Coliseum & guested in some tv shows. I only watched them perform.on tv in a local show which I forgot the name of the show. I still listen to their music amidst the pandemic. Aug 16,2021
I've loved Sergio Mendes and his groups ever since I was in high school, 1967ish. Not sure how I got into them but I sure did. I went to college the next year and they appeared on a program there. And then, later that I was sent to Brasil as a mormon missionary and there was lots of Bossa Nova and Samba to listen. I heard them lots of times, as recently as about 2015 when they appeared in a casino in Las Vegas where I lived then. I'm 72 years old and pretty soon have to hear them again.
I''ve listened to this song snce 1964 and still like it. In 1964 first recorded by Little Anthony and the Imperials, written and composed By Teddy Randazzo and Baby Weinstein. The version of Sergio came two years later. Waarvan akte !
Musica de este maravilloso musico y compositor Sergio Méndez, adornado por ese coro donde estaba Lany Holl, viví algunos años en Brasil en los 70' s y recuerdo de su musica y sus costumbres, gran país y gran pueblo.
Absolutely superb ... takes me right back to wonderful memories when I was a young woman, and the world was a kind, intelligent, beautiful place. Thank you very much indeed.
Lani Hall married Herb Alpert, she sung with Sergio Mendes and Janis Hansen for only four years, lately she became a lead singer releasing her first solo album in 1972 "Sundown Lady". Sergio Mendes's music has the seal of her voice whenever you hear it.
thank you thank you so very much for this, i heard this being played by my parents when i was a kid, i wish i could grow up fast enough then to wear those clothes and dance to this type of music. I loved seeing their dresses as i saw my Mum wearing clothes like this.
@@bobjohnson205 Good point Bob, but I think the girls were covered by some boom mics. If you listen carefully to the acoustics of the performance, there is a lot of echo suggesting that they are not close mic'ed. Its certainly not a studio recording .
These two girls were very pretty and sang very well too. It is hard to love someone who ignores us and we try to find a way into that special peron's heart. Sometimes we succeed others we don't.
HAVE to agree with 'saintquinn' below!! Yes indeed ... gorgeous & unique voices!!! I too think that Sergio - in some way - surely DID luck out with finding such wondrous ladies with their amazing vocals! Perhaps this was his vision from the start. When u were 2 hey 007?!!! Wow! That's pretty fab that when u were 2 it hit u that way. I was around 8 or so when I first heard "Pretty World" on an AM radio in the neighborhood. I was hooked !!!! Indeed these ladies, especially in harmony, have a unique & fabulous sound !!! One way I would describe it is something like this: Sorry, but almost no matter who u are as a female singer, u may have to step aside & let these pros & grown-ups take over!! Can't help but LOVE them!!!!!
I was a kid then too and similar happened to me Sergio etc. Herb Alpert, Burt Bacharach hit some chord with me. I think though that Sergio is very on top of his craft and he really knew what he was doing when he selected those fine vocalists and such beautiful ladies too! I like their unique Brazilian interpretation of music too!
To Robert Klimek I discovered the fisrt edition of Brasil'66 and was immediatly struck by the tremendous vocal harmonies by Janis and Lani, and the exciting rhythm of the outstanding backing group, who could hamonize on the occasion( Jose Soares on percussion, Bob Matthews on bass, Joao Palma on drums) Though I don't quite agree with you about the sharing between Janis and Lani on vocals, I must admit that you statement about the drummer fills me with joy!! The late Joao Palma was a pillar of the "sound of Brasil'66", on the first three LP; his outstanding style was really a trademark of the group if you listen carefully. His work can be appreciated on Tom Jobim and Walter Wanderley LPs for CTI label. There is a video where you can enjoy the whole group on Vimeo(Sergio Mendes & Brasil'66 in the Lloyd Thaxton show); they play 3 titles!! Don't miss it.
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their music is timeless. ever since the brazilian jazz sound hit america in the mid 60's i was taken.
Put me in your list !...... First time I heard Sergio Mendes it was in 1966 I was a young 16 year old MEXICAN guy living in the most pretty city of Mexico GUADALAJARA recently I turn 74 and still I'm a huge fan of Sergio Mendes music....... Saludos y Buena Suerte
@@ignaciolias1533 i'm 74 also and it's all muy bueno.
its not jazz its Bossa Nova
@@duncanmcphee186 ok yes and I like it.
I often come back to this video just to watch the gorgeous and gifted Janis Hansen
These girls sang as one. Musical perfection.
Musical genius, is the sound of Sergio Mendez and Brazil ‘66.
Sergio, like Stevie, was born with the happiness gene. Just an amazing assemblage of artists.
I don't get tired of listening to Sergio Mendes songs.
Neither me... This very morning I was listening another video of "Mais que nada", and I though exactly the same!
Me too. Love their authentic amazing songs.
Me too ☺️
Anch'io!
WOW! NO STAGE MICS! NO SOUND-MAN! THAT GORGEOUS, PERFECT BLAND IS ALL THEM. ONLY MICROPHONES SEEM TO BE THE ONES MAKING THE RECORDING. YOU CAN HEAR THE NATURAL REVERB OF THE ROOM!!!!!! PRICELESS. AMAZINGLY FINE MUSICIANSHIP!!!! VERY RARE TO HEAR SUCH A PUBLIC PERFORMANCE, EVEN THEN.
I’m 73. Saw them live in the 60’s as a “opening act” with Herb Alpert. Never saw anything to top that evening. That sound. The understated power of their music has no equal. Check out any of their other music. You will be amazed. Chrystal Illusions.
omg! lucky you!
Herb Alpert married Lani Hall, the beautiful singer on the left. They still travel and perform. Alpert is 85 years old.
@@Dr.Pepper001 Yes indeed!!
Did they top Alpert? I saw Journey and the opening band, Pat Travers blew them away and I am sure there are many other instances if people want to share?
lucky papa ray . lani and janis sound so beautiful together
Aside from the sultry voices, let's give huge credit to Sergio Mendes for being such a tremendous arranger. He puts his own unique touch on iconic songs that are already familiar to millions. Big changes, too. Very brave to even make such an attempt yet he does it again and again. Changed the whole time signatures of both Fool On The Hill and Scarborough Fair. Brilliant stuff. It would be an insult to call any of these efforts 'covers'. Over 50 years later and these songs stand the test of time like few others.
So true!
Always had a crush on Lani Hall. I was introduced to Brazil 66 when I was 8 years old. Never get tired of this sound. Sergio was shear genius
In our dreams, you and I were fighting for her
Sergio was certainly a genius at picking his female singers!
Dang you said it...
SERGIO MENDES & BRAZIL 66.....WERE SO AHEAD OF THEIR TIME ...PEOPLE HAD REALLY NO IDEA HOW MIND BLOWING , SHARP DRESSED , STRAIGHT RAZOR SHARP.....COOL COOL COOL COOL AND SUPER COOL THEY WERE AND STILL ARE.....I AM IN LOVE WITH
LANI HALL AND JANIS HANZEN !!!!!!!!
You have exceptional taste.
Lani Hall has such a gorgeous voice.
I have such a crush on her. So beautiful, cute and innocent.
Absolutely. Those who had the chance to see her back then were truly lucky. So amazing.
This was one of my favorite renditions of this classic song!. I love the fact that these two beautiful girls had no tattoos, no autotune, no gymnastics! Just plain and simple talent!
Absolutely beautiful
Perfectly said.
Rare these days.
Asi es, is very beautiful song, una simpleza sublime. Guao!, la puedo escuchar varias veces y no me canso.
Oh yeah. No Tattoos. Herb Alpert, who married B '66's Lani Hall is a very lucky man indeed.
Desde Colombia, Sergio Mendes 😭😢😥, excelente músico. Tú música era puro AMOR❤
RIP Sergio! Thanks for the tunes!
I grew up in the same neighborhood as Lani Hall in Chicago. Still gorgeous today and talented as all hell.
❤❤❤, i grew up with your music, Sergio Mendes & Brazil '66, Lani Hall and hubby Herb Alpert..
OMG...Janis Hansen, such a wonderful singer, and paired with the amazing Lani Hall. Their beautiful voices and iconic 60's look! RIP Janis.
Brings back a memory or two.
Real vocals no studio machine...l miss good music...l was born in the 60s and love the songs and clothes!!!
Lani Hall...Ay caramba! I was fortunate to grow up with this music in our household. This era and this music is what I listen most today. Sergio Mendes,Herb Alpert, Burt Bacharach,Stan Getz, Vince Guaraldi...as 10 year old I loved Bossa Nova and all kinds of Jazz. In my teens there was nothing sexier than a female Jazz singer...reckon i still feel the same. None of my friends liked this music they thought I was weird for liking it.
Me too!!
Lanie hall is so beautiful.
anyone under quarantine listening to this? im into female vocal jazz (especially nina simone) and bossa nova - old school compositions per se. at 21 i feel so aloof from the gen z but whenever i watch a treasured live clip like this makes my heart full. i feel validated that an old soul like me is accepted and embraced. i cri bec of joy, so much feels
Me 😁
✌️😀👌
me too. I love this music.
Eden Roc Ramos there was a quarantine? In America? In the Land of the FREE and home of the BRAVE? well, waddya know ..
Me from Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
I was in Rio in 2007. The people there were more proud of Brazil 66 than their soccer teams!!!
Love it.. From Spain..... As so much amazing I love specially lani hall... She was very cute.... Love her
when music was ever lasting music. More than beautiful.
Exquisite voices. I remember this wonderful group when I was a kid in the 60's.
Back in the day, I'd hear this, followed by the Beatles, Dione Warwick, etc. Just an amazing collection of music.
An awesome era. I was just a baby but I remember my mom listening to this. Thanks mom I still love it.
When music was classy and beautiful.
I loved them on anything!! Grew up with them!! Super !! 🎼🎼🎶👍❤
I really love to hear Lani's amazing voice. . .especially this song. Wow! Incredible!
Lani Hall is unbelievable. That voice just melts me.
Amazing how two such great singers sound like one. And amazing as always how Lani has the most masterful, pure and powerful feminine voice imaginable. Truly the classic high water mark against which all other female singers must be judged.
This was the studio version, and Lani Hall did sing 100% of the vocals. They did some studio work and double tracked her vocals so it sounds like there are two people singing, but it's really just two tracks of Lani. Sorry to ruin the myth! I'm sure Janis was a good singer, and she probably kicked butt in concerts when they did need both voices live.
Lani's voice is so distinctive. She was the voice of Brazil 66 and then married Herb Alpert. How perfect is that!
@Amy Elise which one is Lani? The tall or short woman?
The tall
Lani is the short one on the left.
shorter lady with pink dress
Lani Hall is so lovely!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
so nice to listen to then still . have 2 albums from brasil 66 i still think Lani and Janis sounded so fantastic together .
This music...timeless...and the performers...SO GOOD...they are, REALLY SOMETHING...so something, that nowadays, we don't have this kind of music...nor this kind of performances...
Thanks so much...Neat Regards...
Sergio was a lucky man touring with those sixties beauties
Lani hall una BELLEZA de MUJER y su voz ,simplemente es pectacular....
I simply love Lani Hall during his days, she's so awesome, sweet voices, great ladies!
They had a great sound ! What wonderful voices !
This music group was one of my father's favorites. He was always humming jazzy tunes and loved Brasil 66 and Sergio Mendes!!
Then you can be completely sure that your dad had truly good taste!
@@alfredomarquez9777 No doubt.
Lani was Sergio and Herb Albert’s muse. Just an amazing vocalist.
You fall in love with her, the moment you see and hear her sing.
That is Lani Hall and Karen Phillipp, RIP Sergio for this wonderful music today I still love!
Qui no recorda Sergio Mendez. Sergio Mendez va crear un so dintre la música. Grande! Arreclos i composicions inconfundibles. Vaig tingué la sort de dedicar-me a la música durant 17 anys. Tinc molta gent per recordar. Ells són uns d'aquests.
Una maravilla lograda con tan poco , esos eran tiempos elegantes y de buen gusto, dejaron profundas huellas en nosotros,gracias.
Excelente música de la época. Habrán otrras pero solo son imitadores, como estas voces no hay en ninguna otra. MÚSICA DE ORO!!
I agree. The 1960s and early '70s were certainly a golden age for popular music.
So many memories when I hear this classic tune.....classy dames, classy era in so many ways.
These vocals are too perfect. How can they sing in such unison?
…that’s the magic of it! They were fantastic.
And the way they move.... I mean that's how you GO-GO.
My Dad used to play Brasil '66, on reel-to-reel, when I was growing up. 😊
Lani Hall was great and so was the band.
Real ladies who sing Beautifully!
it bring back childhood memories! This music makes me happy to be healthy and still kicking.
great music to watch in unprecedented time. Makes me very happy!
EU ESCUTO O MAGNÍFICO SERGIO MENDES HÁ ANOS E ESSA MUSICA ESTÁ CRAVADA NO MEU CORAÇÃO. HOJE DESCOBRI QUE MARAVILHOSA LANI HALL É ESPOSA DO INCRÍVEL HERP ALBERT. QUE TALENTO, MINHA GENTE!
Tanto talento se agradece......muy buena calidad de música
Lani Hall is such a babe❤❤❤
jamesmegill married to Herb Alpert
@jamesmegill My dad was a huge B66 fan in the sixties and had their albums always playing. I had a huge crush on Lani Hall and here fifty years later I can see why!
@@dcgravity7822 - Same for me. I used to stare at the album cover.
I was madly in love with Lani Hall as a teen. Damn you Herb Albert!! ; )
Alpert stole your girl!😊 thanks for commenting!!
hello sir sergio mendez , lani hall and janis hansen...from your fans club from the phil. islands
I will always love me some Sergio & Brasil 66!!
saw them in 1966, north Dakota university field house. I was spellbound............still am.
.
RIP The beautiful Janis
Surprising that we Do NOT Hear This Version more often today...
GORGEOUS Version!
Thank You for sharing....
I think I'm going out of my head - cause I can't explain these 2019 tears I shed - over you - I must think of a way into your 1966 heart...
I know I heard this version before and my mother had Sergio Mendez album she'd play, and Herb Alpert, a couple of his albums, but I didn't hear this that way I don't think. In the US was this also played on radio stations. So great to see them singing this live! I like live performances and so great just five of them create such beautiful songs! I like their unique vocalizations too, like they do in Jazz, and also the Bossa Nova, Samba, kind of beats. Brazil and south America has contributed such unique music to the world!
Beautiful arrangement, beautiful voices, beautiful girl and elegant gentlemen. They would go to define a sound and an era. Genius.
Lani!!! I love u. ❤️
Farewell and job superbly done, Sergio Mendez.
Along with Herb Alpert and Burt Bacharach, your brilliance makes up what I like to refer to as the 60s 'musical TRIFECTA.' Oh how we need your smooth, sophisticated, bosa-nova interpretations of catchy melodies more NOW than ever -- particularly when acknowledging the cultural wasteland in which we presently find ourselves.
And one more thing: SO WISH dresses were STILL that short.
A wonderful clasic and elegance of músic,,,its so Amazing,,,,leni hall its so Amazing and wonderfull.....!!
Lani Hall was one of the early vocalist of SM & Brazil '66. They had a couple of concerts here in the Philippines at the Araneta Coliseum & guested in some tv shows. I only watched them perform.on tv in a local show which I forgot the name of the show. I still listen to their music amidst the pandemic. Aug 16,2021
this tune never fades away/ since 1966/ melody d'amore
I've loved Sergio Mendes and his groups ever since I was in high school, 1967ish. Not sure how I got into them but I sure did. I went to college the next year and they appeared on a program there. And then, later that I was sent to Brasil as a mormon missionary and there was lots of Bossa Nova and Samba to listen. I heard them lots of times, as recently as about 2015 when they appeared in a casino in Las Vegas where I lived then. I'm 72 years old and pretty soon have to hear them again.
I''ve listened to this song snce 1964 and still like it. In 1964 first recorded by
Little Anthony and the Imperials, written and composed By Teddy Randazzo and Baby Weinstein. The version of Sergio came two years later. Waarvan akte !
Musica de este maravilloso musico y compositor Sergio Méndez, adornado por ese coro donde estaba Lany Holl, viví algunos años en Brasil en los 70' s y recuerdo de su musica y sus costumbres, gran país y gran pueblo.
Delicious music, my patents in partys playing this music. Pure joy
I love this band!
Increíble voz lani Hall, en inglés, portugués y español.
Wonderful songs in any language.
Just so completely entertaining. Truly. And Lani is still my favorite female singer.
Sergio Mendes e seu grupo é absolutamente único e fantástico Obrigada sempre por tantas músicas incríveis!
Absolutely superb ... takes me right back to wonderful memories when I was a young woman, and the world was a kind, intelligent, beautiful place.
Thank you very much indeed.
Spring cleaning in August, and digging through stacks of vinyl, discovered this piece of art again. On my list for remasters.
Lani Hall married Herb Alpert, she sung with Sergio Mendes and Janis Hansen for only four years, lately she became a lead singer releasing her first solo album in 1972 "Sundown Lady". Sergio Mendes's music has the seal of her voice whenever you hear it.
Así quiero perder la razón con estás bellísimas mujeres que voz gracias a Sergio Mendez y Brazil 66
It's going to be very cool. March 10, 2023 Herb Alpert and Lani Hall in Arizona.
Lani's voice !!!!!!!💌💞💟💘❤❤😍😍😍😍
Lani Hall...so cute. Such a great voice. Did I say how cute she is?
thank you thank you so very much for this, i heard this being played by my parents when i was a kid, i wish i could grow up fast enough then to wear those clothes and dance to this type of music. I loved seeing their dresses as i saw my Mum wearing clothes like this.
This is great music! I remember these songs when I was just a little boy.
I remember seeing them in El Paso in the mid-sixties. They were fantastic.
😮
Simply beautiful 🙏
Their voices and music 🎶 I wanted to hear more
As musicas mais lindas do mundo.
This is my favorite lineup; Lani and Janis.
Use of dynamics, great by Sergio....
So great!!!!!
Incredible vocal power from Lani Hall here. Terrific live performance.
Yes, a 'live' performance with not a single mic in sight and none of the instruments plugged in! Simply magical! lol
@@bobjohnson205 Good point Bob, but I think the girls were covered by some boom mics. If you listen carefully to the acoustics of the performance, there is a lot of echo suggesting that they are not close mic'ed. Its certainly not a studio recording .
Her voice, her eyes, the way she moves, everything. She's the perfect icon of the 60's.
Going to see him tonight at the Hollywood Bowl!
Always loved this song, still do!
Eternal music.
An outstanding group. I like all of their songs!!
Simply the best!❤❤❤Brazil 66!
These two girls were very pretty and sang very well too. It is hard to love someone who ignores us and we try to find a way into that special peron's heart. Sometimes we succeed others we don't.
Ele tocava muito..Maestro Sérgio Mende!!!..RIP
Adiós amigo siempre te recordaremos con cariño y aprecio siempre vivirás en nuestros corazones.❤❤❤
HAVE to agree with 'saintquinn' below!! Yes indeed ... gorgeous & unique voices!!! I too think that Sergio - in some way - surely DID luck out with finding such wondrous ladies with their amazing vocals! Perhaps this was his vision from the start. When u were 2 hey 007?!!! Wow! That's pretty fab that when u were 2 it hit u that way. I was around 8 or so when I first heard "Pretty World" on an AM radio in the neighborhood. I was hooked !!!! Indeed these ladies, especially in harmony, have a unique & fabulous sound !!! One way I would describe it is something like this: Sorry, but almost no matter who u are as a female singer, u may have to step aside & let these pros & grown-ups take over!! Can't help but LOVE them!!!!!
DrTom
I was a kid then too and similar happened to me Sergio etc. Herb Alpert, Burt Bacharach hit some chord with me. I think though that Sergio is very on top of his craft and he really knew what he was doing when he selected those fine vocalists and such beautiful ladies too! I like their unique Brazilian interpretation of music too!
To Robert Klimek
I discovered the fisrt edition of Brasil'66 and was immediatly struck by the tremendous vocal harmonies by Janis and Lani, and the exciting rhythm of the outstanding backing
group, who could hamonize on the occasion( Jose Soares on percussion, Bob Matthews on bass, Joao Palma on drums)
Though I don't quite agree with you about the sharing between Janis and Lani on vocals,
I must admit that you statement about the drummer fills me with joy!!
The late Joao Palma was a pillar of the "sound of Brasil'66", on the first three LP; his outstanding style was really a trademark of the group if you listen carefully.
His work can be appreciated on Tom Jobim and Walter Wanderley LPs for CTI label.
There is a video where you can enjoy the whole group on Vimeo(Sergio Mendes & Brasil'66 in the Lloyd Thaxton show); they play 3 titles!! Don't miss it.