Dick Farney - Dick Farney Trio (Remastered) (2023) [Hi-Res]

Jazz pianist and singer Dick Farney (pronounced FAR-nay) had a big career in Brazil and recorded in the U.S. with bassist Slam Stewart and others, and yet he's barely known today. Farney's crooning voice was so smooth you'd think Bing Crosby had recorded pop records in Portuguese. Farney's jazz career began in the early 1940s and by the late 1940s he was in New York as a regular singer on Milton Berle's radio show on NBC. By the early 1950s, Farney had returned to Rio de Janeiro and shifted to pop with a jazz feel, continuing into the 1980s.
After his start as a singer in major Rio hotels and clubs, he was invited to the U.S. after meeting arranger Bill Hitchcock and lounge pianist Eddie Duchin at Rio's Hotel Copacabana. By the early 1960s, he was recording jazz-bossa albums and then more lavish and irresistible pop albums. Perhaps his best-known recording in the U.S. was Você in 1964 with Brazilian actress Norma Bengell. Farney died in 1987.