Sergio Mendes - Celebration: A Musical Journey (2011)

Tracklist
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CD1
01. Outra Vez
02. Garota de Ipanema
03. So Danco Samba
04. Mais Que Nada
05. Going Out of My Head
06. Constant Rain
07. Night and Day
08. The Look of Love
09. So Many Stars
10. The Fool On the Hill
11. Scarborough Fair
12. (Sittin' On) the Dock of the Bay
13. Pretty World
14. Wichita Lineman
15. Norwegian Wood
16. Masquerade
17. What the World Needs Now Is Love
18. Pais Tropical
19. Viramundo
20. After Sunrise
21. Promessa de Pescador

CD2
01. Never Gonna Let You Go
02. My Summer Love
03. The Sound of One Song
04. Kisses
05. Daylight
06. Sarara (Bring Me the Sunlight)
07. Cinnamon and Clove (Cravo e Canela)
08. Rio de Janeiro
09. Holografico Olodum
10. Mas Que Nada
11. The Frog
12. Waters of March
13. Y Vamos Ya (...Let's Go)
14. So Tinha de Ser Com Voce
15. Magalenha
16. The Fool On the Hill
17. Chove Chuva

The Top Five success of "The Girl from Ipanema" by Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto in 1964 paved the way for Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 two years later, establishing a fashion for Brazilian samba with cool female vocals in English. Mendes, a Brazilian-born pianist, was launched by Herb Alpert's A&M Records, and after recording his own version of the Getz/Gilberto hit (heard here as "Garota de Ipanema") went on to a series of hits in the mid- to late ‘60s in which he applied Brazilian pop arrangements to covers of familiar pop songs with Lani Hall usually handling the Gilberto-like vocals. The Mendes treatments of Bacharach/David's "The Look of Love" and the Beatles' "The Fool on the Hill" even reached the Top Ten. This two-CD set presents the highlights of Mendes' popular heyday, including his 1983 comeback hit "Never Gonna Let You Go" (on which the vocals were taken by Joe Pizzulo and Leza Miller). All the hits are included, and toward the end of the second disc, Mendes' first chart entry, "Mas Que Nada," is even transformed into a rap by Black Eyed Peas, among other remixes and remakes.

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