In the summer of 1958, a singer-guitarist from Bahia in the north of Brazil called Joao Gilberto created a musical revolution when he joined with bossa novas seminal songwriting team, the gifted composer Antonio Carlos Jobim, and the poet and former diplomat, Vinicius de Moraes, to record the songs that would launch this cool, futuristic new music for a confident new era. These albums are quite literally the aesthetic and musical blueprints for a genre that would exert an irresistible worldwide influence on popular music. Our edition features the original (long out of print) classic album in its entirety and original packaging. It includes Joao's historic, first performances of such masterpieces as Samba de uma nota so (One Note Samba), Meditacao (Meditation), O pato, Corcovado, Discussao and Outra vez (One More Time) The album is augmented by rare recordings of some of the famous songs of both O Amor, o sorriso e a flor Chega de saudade by such important contemporaries as Sergio Mendes, Walter Wanderley, Sylvia Telles, Carlos Lyra, Alaide Costa, Agostinho Dos Santos, Isaura Garcia, Os Cariocas and Luiz Eca.
1. Samba de uma nota so (One Note Samba)
2. Doralice
3. So em teus bracos (Only In Your Arms)
4. Trevo de quatro folhas (I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover)
5. Se e tarde me perdoa (Forgive Me if It's Too Late)
6. Um abraco no Bonfa (A Hug for Bonfa)
7. Meditacao (Meditation)
8. O pato (The Duck)
9. Corcovado
10. Discussao (Discussion)
11. Amor certinho (Certain Love)
12. Outra vez (One More Time)
13. Outra vez (One More Time) – SERGIO MENDES
14. Ho-ba-la-la - SERGIO MENDES
SYLVIA TELLES
15. Corcovado
16. Ho-ba-la-la
17. Samba de uma nota so (One Note Samba)
18. O pato (The Duck) – WALTER WANDERLEY
ISAURA GARCIA and WALTER WANDERLEY
19. Corcovado
MIKE FALCAO (Walter Wanderley)
20. Aos pes da cruz (At the foot of the Cross)
AGOSTINO DOS SANTOS
21. Samba de uma nota so (One Note Samba)
22. Desafinado (Off-Key)
23. Chega de saudade (No More Blues)
24. Manha de carnaval (Morning of the Carnival)
25. A Felicidade (Happiness)
ORQUESTRA RIO DE JANEIRO
26. A Felicidade (Happiness)
27. Discussao (Discussion) – ALAIDE COSTA
28. A Felicidade (Happiness) - MACIEL
SILVIO SILVEIRA
29. Bim Bom
30. E luxo so (It's Just a Luxury)
31. Maria Ninguem (Maria Nobody) – CARLOS LYRA
32. Maria Ninguém (Maria Nobody) – HERALDO DO MONTE
ORQUESTRA PAN AMERICAN with OS CARIOCAS
33. Brigas nunca mais (Fights, Never More)
34. Chega de saudade (No More Blues)
LUIZ ECA & ASTOR SILVA
35. Meditacao (Meditation)