FINEST HOUR

GILBERTO, ASTRUD

description

tracks

Goodbye Sadness (Tristeza)
The Girl From Ipanema
Meditation
The Face I Love
Corcovado (Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars)
So Nice (Samba De Verao)
A Felicidade
Photograph
It Might As Well Be Spring
Wish Me A Rainbow
Fly Me To The Moon
Crickets Sing For Anamaria
Who Needs Forever?
Insensatez
Berimbau
Come Softly To Me / Hushabye
Trains And Boats And Planes
Canto De Ossanha (Let Go)
I'm Nothin' Without You
In The Wee Small Hours

NOTES

Personnel on some songs is unknown.

Made in the EU.

Track 1 is erroneously credited as Edu Lobo composition on the release. Personnel on some songs is unknown.

- Track 1, 6: recorded September 21, 1966 at A&R Recording Studios, New York City. Original-LP issue: 'A Certain Smile, a Certain Sadness' Verve V6-8673; available on CD: Verve 314 557 449-2.
- Track 2, 5: recorded March 18 or 19, 1963 at A&R Recording Studios, New York City. Original-LP issue: Stan Getz-João Gilberto 'Getz/Gilberto' Verve V6-8545; available on CD: Verve 314 521 414-2.
- Track 3, 8, 14: recorded January 27 or 28, 1965 at RCA Studios, Hollywood. Original-LP issue: 'The Astrud Gilberto Album' Verve V6-8608.
- Track 4: recorded June 9 or 17, 1967 in New York City. Original-LP issue: 'Beach Samba' Verve V6-8873; available on CD: Verve 314 519 801-2.
- Track 7, 15: recorded December 6, 1965 in New York City. Original-LP issue: 'Look to the Rainbow' Verve V6-8643; available on CD: Verve 821 556-2.
- Track 9: recorded October 6, 1964, probably at Van Gelder Recording Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Original-LP issue: Stan Getz 'Getz Au Go Go' Verve V6-8600; available on CD: Verve 821 725-2.
- Track 10: recorded May 13, 1966 at A&R Recording Studios, New York City. Original 45-rpm mono issue: Verve VK 10414; previously unissued in stereo.
- Track 11: recorded October 21, 1964 at A&R Recording Studios, New York City. Original-LP issue: 'The Shadow of Your Smile' Verve V6-8829.
- Track 12: recorded May 14, 1968 in New York City. Original-LP issue: 'Windy' Verve V6-8754.
- Track 13: recorded December 1966 at Van Gelder Recording Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Original-LP issue: Quincy Jones 'The Deadly Affair' Verve V6-8679; available on CD: 'The Pawnbroker and The Deadly Affair (2 LPs on 1 CD) Verve 314 531 233-2.
- Track 16: recorded January 29, 1964 in New York City. Original 45-rpm issue: Verve VK 10580.
- Track 17, 20: recorded December 12, 1968 at Century Sound Recording Studios, New York City. Original-LP issue: 'I Haven't Got Anything to Do' Verve V6-8776.
- Track 18: recorded on or before December 17, 1969 at Century Sound Recording Studios, New York City. Original-LP issue: 'September 17, 1969' Verve V6-8793.
- Track 19: recorded circa 1986 at New River Sound Studios, Florida and Studio Hamburg, Hamburg. Original-CD issue: 'Astrud Gilberto Plus James Last Orchestra' Verve 831 123-2.

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Mastered at Universal Mastering Studios-East.

Photographs are © 2001 Joe Alper/Alper Family Collection (back cover).

© 2001 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Distributed by Universal Music and Video Distribution, Inc., 10 Universal City Plaza, 4th floor; Universal City, California 91608.

Track 1 is erroneously credited as Edu Lobo composition on the release

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