Sometimes referred to as The Girl From Ipanema, this French release from Nico has no given title so people use the first track on the album or the first track listed on the front. On my wishlist for a while I picked this up for less than £20.
"The bossa nova had it's brief moment of hit parade glory in Britain at the beginning of the last decade in the shape of Antonio Carlos Jobim's Desafinado, but it's influence has remained constant in popular music ever since. The soft, subtle beat of Brazil's modern Samba can be heard everyday on the radio airwaves as arrangers draw upon it for colour and contrast in their scores, and it has joined and largely superceded the beguine and the bolero in this respect. It is a matter of regret that we seldom hear genuine Brazilian tunes over those same radio airwaves, but at least the bossa nova rhythm has firmly and permanently implanted itself on the map of international pop music."
This is Russ Conway in happiest of moods - pub piano under his fingers. Relaxed, warm, friendly - you can sense the smile, the twinkle in those blue eyes the moment he starts to play.
A BWD production.
1972 and it's an Olympic year, so here's Hella Rutz photographed in the Olympic Stadium, Munich to represent the Olympic summer of hits! White dress created specially by Morris Angel.
Archery equipment by Lillywhites Of Piccadilly, London, Boots by Anello & Davide. Photographs by Jack Wood and Terry Beard, sleeve design by Terry Beard.
The Lush Stereo Sound of
Off now to 1972 for another in the Hot Hits series, another BWD production, and another collection of hits as you've never heard them before.
A BWD production.
Not much info on this one, no blurb on the sleeve, just as it says on the cover, the sixth MFP collection of current hits, as performed by unnamed studio musicians. I'd love to know who these people were but I guess I never will.
