Thursday, November 13, 2008
Another Sound from 70
This track makes me smile big time. It is the show opener from an Expo 70 concert by Sergio Mendes and Brasil 66. As with yesterday's 5th Dimension track, we are not necessarily talking about any kind of major hipness here. Sergio like the 5D played the Nixon Whitehouse. I wonder if they stopped and did any USO shows in Vietnam on their way back from Osaka.
This track starts out with a breakneck speed on a Bacharach tune that you think they might get derailed until it heads into one of the group's hits. Lani Hall has a very strong and distinctive voice, she really was important to the Sergio sound. Here she pretty much overwhelms the other female voice in the group, Karen Phillips, but there are a few moments where their voices blend in that very unique Brasil 66 way. And then Sergio joins in a couple times with his strong Portugese accent when pronouncing "world" and during a lalala chorus later on. But also pay attention to some of his keyboard flourishes, some of them are quite fine indeed.
As for the messsage of this music: "I know we can make a pretty world for me and for you." What the hell is wrong with that?
Sergio_expo70opener.mp3
posted by well-executed buffet at 9:10 PM
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