And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Nice try, but no cigar. Anything with Byrd was done much later. The Top 40 hit was all Getz and Gilberto. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getz/Gilberto#Personnel
You might be thinking of Desafinado, off of Jazz Samba, which won the Grammy for Best Jazz Performance in '63, and was a Getz/Byrd pairing, and a Billboard #4 hit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_Samba https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7lmMNweUVU
Mike Agranoff, a folk singer from the eastern United States, wrote "My Favorite Diseases" several decades ago (sung to the tune of "My Favorite Things). In that tune, Agranoff breaks into a few bars of "The Girl With Emphysema" (a parody of The Girl From Ipanema). Check it out at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z06ML0ki8MM. Excellent!
She eventually posed for Playboy.
ReplyDelete... With her daughter.
The girl the song was about not the singer Astrud Gilberto.
DeleteYou are quite right. Should have clarified it.
DeleteI was a freshman in college when this album came out. What a huge hit!!!
ReplyDeleteBut the Top 40 hit we were playing was the instrumental by Stan Getz and
ReplyDeleteCharlie Byrd. Yeah, those were the days.
Not Stan Getz and João Gilberto? I have no recollection of Byrd having anything to do with this.
DeleteNope, Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd. Google it. The 45 single brings about 30 bucks on line.
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DeleteNice try, but no cigar.
Anything with Byrd was done much later.
The Top 40 hit was all Getz and Gilberto.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getz/Gilberto#Personnel
You might be thinking of Desafinado, off of Jazz Samba, which won the Grammy for Best Jazz Performance in '63, and was a Getz/Byrd pairing, and a Billboard #4 hit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_Samba
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7lmMNweUVU
Listen to this album a lot. Great jazz album.
ReplyDeleteAstrud's daughter, Bebel Gilberto, has made quite a career for herself as well.
ReplyDeleteI play this often on YouTube actually
ReplyDeleteMike Agranoff, a folk singer from the eastern United States, wrote "My Favorite Diseases" several decades ago (sung to the tune of "My Favorite Things). In that tune, Agranoff breaks into a few bars of "The Girl With Emphysema" (a parody of The Girl From Ipanema). Check it out at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z06ML0ki8MM. Excellent!
ReplyDeleteSo, like, a 99¢ Store version of Weird Al?
DeleteAesop, you're killin' it! Way to go!
ReplyDeleteno shit .. too funny
Deleteanyway thanks music nerdlingers,
learn something cool everytime here on the timewaster
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