Sergio Mendes & Brasil 66 - Fool on the Hill (Dig)
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Artist: Sergio Mendes & Brasil 66Edition: Music CD
Audio: Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2004-09-28
Music Label: A&M
Soundtracks:
- The Fool on the Hill
- Festa
- Casa Forte
- Canto Triste
- UPA, Neguinho
- Lapinha
- Scarborough Fair
- When Summer Turns to Snow
- Laia Ladaia (Reza)
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Free Music Review: The best selling Sergio Mendes album and for good reason
Hit: 5 Stars
The Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 formula on "Fool on the Hill" was quite simple. Take pop hits like the title track by the Beatles and "Scarborough Fair" by Simon & Garfunkle, add a bossa nova rhythm and some lavish string accompaniment by Dave Grusin to Mendes on the piano and the vocals by Lani Hall (Mrs. Herb Alpert) and Karen Philipp, and you have some easy listening hits. "Fool on the Hill" followed "Look Around," giving Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 two solid albums in 1968 (please, do not revive the debate over why it was not Brasil '68), although I have a slight preference for this collection, which made was the group's highest charting album at #3 on the Billboard Pop Album chart (but #1 in Jazz and #10 for Black Albums).
The reason is that while this album hooks you with the covers, both of which charted in the Top 20 ("Fool on the Hill" was #6 and "Scarborough Fair" made it to #16), it is the original compositions that you end up loving. The two best on this album are "Casa Forte" and "Upa, Neguinho," both of which were written (or co-written) by Edu Lobo, which are as fine as any of the group's original songs as they ever recorded. The best vocals are actually by Gracinha Leporace, who would be part of Brasil '77, on "Lapinha." You have to appreciate this type of bait and switch, where unsuspecting music lovers pick up an album for the hits and are introduced to the seductive sounds of Brazilian jazz.
In the Sixties this was the sound of international music and the opening of the door for pretty much all of the Latin American recording artists who came afterwards. "Fool on the Hill" was the best selling album by Sergio Mendes, although a large measure of the credit might be due not to the music but rather the cover, which folded out to show the group at a gorgeous sunset...sitting on top of a nude woman. Ah, to be in Rio at Carnival time...
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Exclusive Japanese CD pressing of this 1968 album comes house in a miniature LP sleeve. A&M. 2006.Mendes rode the Brazilian craze of the mid-1960s and became one of Herb Albert's signature artists, even as the hits dried up and the records started going psychedelic. Before he became a slick popster, he was a pretty fair bossa pianist, but his real talent lay in contemporizing (ethnicizing) Up with People-type vocalists and laying commercial Brazilian tracks behind the Beatles' title track and "Scarborough Fair", as well as some of Brazil's own. In the early 70s he started to get into his roots, recording in the lounge/art-rock mixture that Hermeto Pascoal and Cateno Veloso were exploring. He lost his audience until the '80s, when he went uselessly synth. But Brazil 66 is so evocative of a time long passed that by the nineties, its music has become ubiquitous in every "lounge" in the country. --D. Strauss
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