Posted on 03/31/2018 2:03:26 AM PDT by Windflier
Ohtamaru (guitar) and Misaki Yamauchi (vocal) Live in BACK IN TIME@Tokyo. Garota de Ipanema 2010
This is one of the lovliest, most haunting versions of this song I have ever run across.
I hear that, but it's such a timeless, beautiful song, you can't have just one ;-)
I've got an audio folder in my computer with about fifty versions.
(I know....I'm crazy)
Nippon ping
I'm way too old now, but forty years ago I had my wife's permission to build a Briggs and Stratton, lawn chair kite .. ( I had discovered KITPLANES in the gyno office and was infected for all of my life ... especially with RANS ) ... but was always working and rearing a family.
“NUTHIN’ Better”
True enough. Astrud sure lit a fire under my young self!
So taken by the “Brazilian Wave” of 1963-1964, Felix Grant, a Washington, DC area jazz broadcaster, became something of a “Voice of the Samba” locally if not nationwide. Going beyond an extra-mile, he even gained some proficiency in Portuguese!
As far as I can tell, almost al decades had a "theme" genre, but the sixties exploded with R&B, R&R, Blues, jazz, Raggae and the Latin sound, Joan Baez type folk and those four man college kid types (Four Seasons, Kingston Trio (Yeah, I know .. I see it), Peter, Paul and Mary ..... ), and I JUST commented on another thread featuring Shirley Ellis "Name Game" that we were a generation with rhythm and introduced to "Soul" ....
Sharp dressin' dancin' back-up singin' black groups; The Temps, Smokey, etc.
American Bandstand brought the West Coast all over the nation and we went to the moon.
WE HAD RHYTHM !
I love Bossa Nova and have a number of CDs by Stan Getz.....
Not bad.
Been purposely seeing some of the older acts lately.....ever since Leon Russell died I am purposely do so.
Saw Herbie Hancock, Burt Bacharach, and Herb Alpert with his wife Lani Hall (who was lead singer for Sergio Mendes for about 5 years as a 16 y.o.) all in the last month.
All 3 were wonderful with Burt being an amazing experience.
See post #2
Sorry to break from the pack here, but I didn’t make it through the whole recording. It was terrible.
You either get asian voices, or you don’t. I have yet to hear an asian woman make a pleasant sound.
As far as the guitar, it was kept simple and unmolested which I appreciate. But she sounded like a new term that I heard recently : Katzenjammer.
But the actual band named Katzenjammer are some seriously talented women.
Gee, your description led me to expect something like Yoko Ono. The video is nothing like that!
It’s pleasant enough.
Again, maybe it’s just me.
But I find asian art offensive to all the senses.
What led me off was calling it the original which it wasn’t.
Here is what I think is the original:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PYKOo_jgJo
As I recall, he used to broadcast from a jazz club called the Bohemian Caverns.
As I recall, he used to broadcast from a jazz club called the Bohemian Caverns.
Okay, I can understand how someone is not a fan of Asian art. It is a little different from European art.
The song “Sukiyaki” is one of my favorites. I guess you don’t care for it?
I have never felt comfortable with the changes from logical, sensible mellifluous classical/big band melody-based genre of the '40s to '50s that was displaced by the beat-driven "music" that followed, now winding up with tuneless and finally mindless scatological "rap" or whatever it is that I have my radio-alarm set to, that hurts my ears so bad that I have to get up and turn it off, no matter how tired I still am.
All the sweet music that rests the soul is gone. But I do love "The Girl From Ipanema" as one of those floating, dreamy songs of deeply felt romantic love. And Les Paul and Mary Ford, "Somewhere the World is Waiting sor the Sunrise." And the Hi-Lo's "Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries."
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