Music: Singers Unlimited: Crooner-style Seventies vocal quartet with instrumentation

Hat Tip to Karl Devlin


Pablorecords presents The Singers Unlimited (German vocal quartet) singing in English and in their own style (crooning with instruments, I'd say) a Sergio Mendes cancion from Brazil, originally in Mendes' style —"heavily Bossa Nova crossed with jazz and funk."  While "he was the undisputed master of pop-inflected Brazilian jazz" ( Brasileiro, 1992) and "[t]he late-1990s lounge music revival brought retrospection and respect to Mendes' oeuvre, particularly the classic Brasil '66 albums," nevertheless some of his work at least is justly characterized as "elevator music" (most often a pejorative), often also "easy listening."  See Sergio Mendes, Wikipedia; better yet, see YouTube's Sergio Mendes - Artist Biography.

But be sure to compare version above, by The Singers Unlimited, to Lani Hall's vocalizations in the original release Sergio Mendes & Brasil 66 - So Many Stars, with lyrics by Alan & Marilyn Bergman.



— posted by Musikos, refWrite Backpage music columnist and reviewer.

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