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Thanks for posting the lyrics and for noting the composers of this marvelous song. Here is another musical gem written by Dori Caymmi on Bossa Rio's Alegria album.TjbBmb: Thank you so much for posting that great Bossa Rio clip! I've never seen them 'in person' before. Gracinha looks to be 15 or 16 or so. It was fun to see the Playboy swingers (with several Karen Philipp lookalikes) groove to the smooth rhythms, and it was most unusual and refreshing to see an African-American gentleman dancing with a white girl. I don't think that racial harmony went over well on network TV in 1969.
And thank you, Ij, for posting "Juliana" (Tiberio Gaspar / Antonio Adolfo), one of my favorites on "Live in Japan".
I did a search to see what the lyrics translated as, and even through some typically awkward Google translation it is very sensual and erotic:
Num fim de tarde, meio de dezembro
Ainda me lembro e posso até contar
O sol caia dentro do horizonte
Juliana viu o amor chegar
A lua nova perto da ribeira
Trançava esteiras sobre os araças
Entrando em relva seu corpo moreno
Juliana viu o amor chegar
Botão de rosa perfumosa e linda
Tão menina ainda a desabrochar
Pelos canteiros do amor primeiro
Foi chegada a hora do seu despertar
E a poesia então fez moradia
Na roseira vida que se abria em par
Entre suspiros junto à ribeira
Juliana viu o amor chegar
E Juliana então se fez mulher
E Juliana viu o amor chegar
Botão de rosa perfumosa e linda
Tão menina ainda a desabrochar
Pelos canteiros do amor primeiro
Foi chegada a hora do seu despertar
E a poesia então fez moradia
Na roseira vida que se abria em par
Entre suspiros junto à ribeira
Juliana viu o amor chegar
E Juliana então se fez mulher
E Juliana viu o amor chegar
E Juliana então se fez mulher
E Juliana viu o amor chegar
On a late afternoon, mid-December
I still remember and I can even tell
The sun falls within the horizon
Juliana saw love coming
The new moon near the river
He wove mats over the macaws
His dark body entering the grass
Juliana saw love coming
Fragrant and beautiful rose bud
So girl still blooming
Through the beds of love first
The time has come for your awakening
And poetry then made housing
In the rose life that opened up
Between sighs by the riverside
Juliana saw love coming
And Juliana then became a woman
And Juliana saw love come
Fragrant and beautiful rose bud
So girl still blooming
Through the beds of love first
The time has come for your awakening
And poetry then made housing
In the rose life that opened up
Between sighs by the riverside
Juliana saw love coming
And Juliana then became a woman
And Juliana saw love come
And Juliana then became a woman
And Juliana saw love come
TjbBmb: Thank you so much for posting that great Bossa Rio clip! I've never seen them 'in person' before. Gracinha looks to be 15 or 16 or so. It was fun to see the Playboy swingers (with several Karen Philipp lookalikes) groove to the smooth rhythms, and it was most unusual and refreshing to see an African-American gentleman dancing with a white girl. I don't think that racial harmony went over well on network TV in 1969.
Not quite Bossa Rio but yeah, that movie is a stone classic!"This Is Spinal Tap" is one of the greatest films ever made. They don't write lyrics like this anymore.
That's what I'm thinking. I can hear him playing, and this isn't lip-synced as far as I can tell (and they are not the studio versions). Odd they wouldn't give him some air time, although they didn't give much to the bass player either.I also wonder if the organ is what the girl on the far left of the frame might be sitting on.
Here's another terrific song performed by Bossa Rio, written by Milton Nascimento. After listening to and rediscovering both of Bossa Rio's albums I have on vinyl, I believe they are better than Brasil 66 "Crystal Illusions" and "Ye Me Le" albums. Certainly not as great as the Brasil 66 classic first four albums, but better than the two aforementioned Brasil 66 albums released in 1969.
I wonder if Sergio's thought process was to attempt more "American" music with his main group Brasil '66 and try the more Brazilian stuff with the Bossa Rio group. I've been listening to a bit more Bossa Rio of late since this thread surfaced.
For some reason, the song "Girl Talk" from ALEGRIA! and LIVE IN JAPAN seems to have entered my head and won't go away. The lyrics are clearly sexist by today's sensibilities.
Girl Talk by Bobby Troup
They like to chat about the dresses they will wear tonight,
they chew the fat about their tresses and the neighbor's fight.
Inconsequential things that men don't really care to know
become essential things that women find so "appropos".
But that's a dame, they're all the same.
It's just a game, they call it girl talk, girl talk.
They all meow about the ups and downs of all their friends,
the "who", the "how", the "why", they dish the dirt, it never ends.
The weaker sex, the speaker sex we mortal males behold
but tho' we joke we wouldn't trade them for a ton of gold.
So baby, stay and gab a way
but hear me say that after girl talk talk to me.