Editorial Review:

Album Description:
Outstanding two CD collection featuring 48 of the act's finest Easy Listening/Bossa Nova tracks recorded for A&M records from 1966-71, During the late '60s, Mendes was the most popular Brazilian artist in the U.S., and has remained a musical icon internationally for decades. More than two hours of solid Latin-tinged Lounge nuggets including the top 40 hits 'The Fool On The Hill', 'The Look Of Love' and 'Scarborough Fair/ Canticle', Other tracks featured include 'Mas Que Nada', 'With A Little Help From My Friends', 'You Stepped Out Of A Dream', 'Wichita Lineman', 'What The World Needs Now', 'For What It's Worth', 'Stillness', 'Agua De Beber' and many more. A&M.









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Disc 1:

1. Mas Que Nada - Sergio Mendes, Ben, Jorge
2. So Many Stars - Sergio Mendes, Mendes, Sergio
3. Viola - Sergio Mendes, Valle, Marcos
4. With a Little Help from My Friends - Sergio Mendes, Lennon, John
5. Wichita Lineman - Sergio Mendes, Webb, Jimmy [1]
6. Batacuda (The Beat) - Sergio Mendes, Valle, Marcos
7. Dois Dias - Sergio Mendes, Caymmi, Dorival
8. Easy to Be Hard - Sergio Mendes, Rado, James
9. Roda - Sergio Mendes, Gil, Gilberto
10. Some Time Ago - Sergio Mendes, Mihanovich, Sergio
11. Masquerade - Sergio Mendes, Haynes, Leonard
12. The Fool on the Hill - Sergio Mendes, Lennon, John
13. You Stepped Out of a Dream - Sergio Mendes, Kahn, Gus
14. Moanin' - Sergio Mendes, Timmons, Bobby
15. Salt Sea - Sergio Mendes, Mendes, Sergio
16. For Me - Sergio Mendes, Lobo, Edu
17. Stillness - Sergio Mendes, Stone, Paula
18. Cinnamon and Clove - Sergio Mendes, Mandel
19. Going Out of My Head - Sergio Mendes, Randazzo, Teddy
20. Look Who's Mine - Sergio Mendes, Valle, Marcos
21. Like a Lover - Sergio Mendes, Caymmi, Dorival
22. Ye-Me-Le - Sergio Mendes, Vinhas, L.C.
23. Day Tripper - Sergio Mendes, Lennon, John
24. Viramundo - Sergio Mendes, Gil, Gilberto

Disc 2:

1. Wave - Sergio Mendes, Jobim, Antonio Carl
2. What the World Needs Now - Sergio Mendes, Bacharach, Burt
3. For What It's Worth - Sergio Mendes, Stills, Stephen
4. Where Are You Coming From? - Sergio Mendes, Caymmi, Dorival
5. Chelsea Morning - Sergio Mendes, Mitchell, Joni
6. Lost in Paradise - Sergio Mendes, Veloso, Caetano
7. The Joker - Sergio Mendes, Newley, Anthony
8. Night and Day - Sergio Mendes, Porter, Cole
9. Scarborough Fair - Sergio Mendes, Garfunkel, Art
10. Canticle - Sergio Mendes, Mello, João
11. Tim-Dom-Dom - Sergio Mendes, Adolfo, A.
12. Pretty World - Sergio Mendes, Adolfo, Antonio
13. The Look of Love - Sergio Mendes, Bacharach, Burt
14. One Note Samba/Spanish Flea - Sergio Mendes, Jobim, Antonio Carl
15. Agua de Beber - Sergio Mendes, Jobim, Antonio Carl
16. Canção Do Nooso Amor - Sergio Mendes, Medeiros, S.
17. Empty Faces - Sergio Mendes, Hall, Lani
18. Triste - Sergio Mendes, Jobim, Antonio Carl
19. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) - Sergio Mendes, Lennon, John
20. Bim Bom - Sergio Mendes, Gilberto, Joao
21. So Danço Samba - Sergio Mendes, Jobim, Antonio Carl
22. Sometimes in Winter - Sergio Mendes, Katz, Steve
23. Constant Rain (Chove Chuva) - Sergio Mendes, Gimbel
24. Pradizer Adeus (To Say Goodbye) - Sergio Mendes, Lobo, Edu

Rating: - fantastic album
have been an avid fan of bossa nova music for years... and sergio mendes has always an amazing musician! love this album a lot!

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Rating: - the very best of sergio mendes and brazil 66
this album is amazing. retro, spicy and just flat out good.

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Rating: - One of the greatest musical groups ever!
I just recently discovered Brasil '66 when I heard "Pretty World" on a jazzy oldies type station. I knew instantly that the singer was someone special & a master singer. Now I'm listening to many of their songs and I never get tired of them. Their music is just pure, clean, good, real music! It is free from technical gimmicks or anything heavy or unnecessary. Their music is so happy, innocent, and fun. I LOVE IT. I can't get enough of it! They're definitely my favorite right now. The best thing about Brasil '66 is Lani Hall. What a great singer she is. Also the jazzy bossanova instrumentals are refreshingly different from anything I've listened to before. I'm looking forward to getting better hi-fi equipment so I can hear them in all their glory. I bet they sound really great on a tube stereo system.

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Rating: - Love this CD!
I listen to this CD when I go for my evening walks. It's wonderful music to walk to (and dance to!). I am absolutely crazy about Sergio Mendes & Brazil 66!. My favorite song on this CD is "Sometimes In Winter." It's a beautiful, haunting song. All the songs are great, but that is the best.

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Rating: - The K-Man was right.
This CD is a timeless, time-capsule treasure trove of pure pop pleasure. Sergio Mendes is a bossa nova Bacharach - not just because he covered both types of music, but because he shares whith the American an interest in revivifying the aesthetic of Tin Pan Alley, tempering it with a 60s pop melancholy (both especially cherish the inherent sadness of brass), and, in Mendes' case, cooling it with jazz discipline gleaned from his association with Jobim. The half century of melodic miracles on this CD may be divided into three types:

1. Cover versions of pop standards so annoyingly familiar you never want to hear the originals again. Mendes takes songs by the likes of the Beatles, Bacharach, Jimmy Webb and Simon & Garfunkel, re-arranges and re-imagines them in a samba mode, convincing you that they were originally written in Brazil after all. 'The Fool On The Hill' nearly collapses under its visionary excess; 'Day Tripper' becomes alive through slick jazz rhythms; 'What The World Needs Now' throttles at a frightening pace; 'Cheslea Morning' and 'Night and Day' exude sunny Rio rays; 'Norwegian Wood' brings out the yo-yo intensity buried in the original.

2. Arrangements of bossa nova classics by Mendes' old jamming cohorts. These are less radical than the above, and the attempts by anonymous, if proficient, session singers to replicate the idiosyncratic Astrud/Joao vibe don't always work; but the subtle reworkings offer new takes on old favourites - 'Bim Bom' is especially definitive, Mendes mining the wistfulness in the most frivolous of songs, sensing the music's soul in the piano. 'One Note Samba', which segues here into 'Spanish Fly', shouln't work, and doesn't, but is invigorating nonetheless.

3. Less familiar covers and original songs (written by Mendes and friends), which rarely equal the emotional depth of Jobim or Bonfa, but offer groovy bliss, warm generosity, bouyant fun and reflective sorrow in equal measures. 'Sometimes In Winter' is a pretentious epic with the most glorious melodic bridge; 'Pretty World' is one of the few songs that knows what being rapturously in love actually sounds like; 'Cancao Do Nosso Amor' and 'Pradizer Adeus' know the same despondancy that provoked Jobim's 'Insensatez'.

This division is, of course, arbitrary and artificial - unique production, settings and instrumentation mean each and every song sounds like a Mendes original. Cosmo Kramer was right - some people can still go wild for Sergio Mendes.