Michel Legrand Orchestra ~ A Felicidade

In 1960s Herb Alpert brass was hardly brassed off ~amongst most sprightly attractive money spinning sounds of the era trumpet led smartly turned out to beat the mariachi blues . . What about the Carpenters~ you whisper ~ Whisper a little louder with capitals WHAT ABOUT THE CARPENTERS ~ barely made tail end of 1960s but Karins voice appended to numerous favourites including specialty Sleigh Ride Karin a singer better than Agnetha of Abba ~ Karins premature death almost forty years ago lamented especially at Christmas If you dote on the Andersons ~Leroy and Benny of Swedish origins Go ahead ~ Leroy Anderson ? No? widen your musical tastes always space for far flung exotica~ Leroy Andersons Sleigh Ride Benny musical brains of Abba .
. In a catalogue of big hits Herb Alpert also recorded Taste of Honey
Alpert . and Bossa nova king Antonio Carlos Jobim were 1960s mainstays .Ifcopod now the gang is here and sporting a stadium sized megaphone instead wittering on how about some god awful grandstanding .An expectant readership hangs on your every utterance A shout for Beach Boys Beatles .perhaps even mention for Bob Dylan .As Mr Loaf formerly of Meatloaf Inc. "your friendly rockers" cautioned he'll do a lot of things ~ but he wont do that
Some genius on U Tube suggested ifcopod stinting on music critiques a mere 700 hundred words not satisfy your needs? we can throw in a whole bundle more ~You and whose army? At least Lets get our moneys worth this time trawl wide for our music.
Some years ago someone~ an adept in such matters ~suggested Brazil a prospective future for popular song then said he was about to pack bags and impedimenta for southern sunny climes bearing witness to a kaleidoscopic blossoming of world music in those verdant lands. . On the strength of a Felicidade and plenty more Sign me up always had yen for Bossa and the like.
I'm trying to get a steer on this 1980s Legrand arranged song ~a steer on the song? No ~ the verbiage to fill out concomitant anecdote as composer Legrand adds judicious strings to glassy keyboards Dont we love it? . Pedro Paulo Castro Neves takes the idiomatic vocals As the song says Cheers ~ Felicidade ~ Lets leave the video marinate and attach a few words sending it on its bossa way.Less guttural bossa Ifcopod more squishy squidgy Portuguese . phonetics ~ get your suffused samba rhythms on the right track. . Felicidade attractive song from Legrands foray into 1980s Braziliana
Hold eveything just spotted prog men Yes on byline NEWS warranting RESPECT and in capitals. The song ? Yours is No Disgrace so well crafted Need I Say more?
Before the philistines took over The 1970s was a great musical time had by all Now how about some Tangerine Dream Phaedra floating mellotron sounds .
Whatever happened to Brenda Lee ~ more lament than critical comment a question prompted by excellent 1960s Brenda Lee video of Taste of Honey to add to our already stacked to the gills collection of" Honey" reminder how good Brenda was on a range of music booted along with rasping heft. ~ why perhaps they named her Miss Dynamite songs traversing the country pop axis You dont need me re~focus your errant memory as to the straitjacketedness of country music less so today.~ Is straightjacketness a viable word or just a parvenu snucking into literary circles. Neither an Ifcopod neologism and as said in a Columbo episode has now been officially terminated. The country music divide ~ peer over the periphery and rue the forebodings banished to no mans? ~ persons? land. What about feisty Yee~ Haw country rockers ? Little Miss Dynamite tag but an emotional heavyweight~ Brenda Lee had to spancel her talent to a narrow aperture of opportunity with strings atttached ~in the late 1950s in search of something leftfield At 4 feet nine ins more diminutive than Judy Garland she delivered in spades and fronting a big band was no stranger to swing Flexibility of Bonnie Raitt but with feisty inclinations. Was all over the late 1950s I'm Sorry~ a particular anthem of the time or if you're up for it and with present season ~Rocking Around the Christmas Tree.
I'm typing like billy~o still not hitting my words max. So perhaps an encomium to progsters Yes or Vanilla Fudge.? again Ifcopod? must we? have endured your expatiations on same but I owe world of music at least a post of the great Eleanor Rigby classic Classic? ~Try telling the other mob about Vanilla Fudge. They can barely get past a musical A to B ..